Revitalizing NASA's Suborbital Program Advancing Science, Driving Innovation, and Developing Workforce (2010) / Chapter Skim
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6 Progressing from Education to Training to Workforce Development
6 Progressing from Education to Training to Workforce Development
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to formal education to the training of the agency's own scientists and engineers, as symbolized in Figure 6.1. Suborbital programs contribute at all these levels, as discussed below, but they are particularly effective in the advanced training of scientists, engineers, project managers and systems engineersa valuable contribution whether these men and women work for NASA, industry, or academe.
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This training includes management skills such as careful budgeting, prioritization, delegation of responsibility and clear communication skills. Suborbital projects are small enough to allow/require the exercise of a wide variety of engineering and management skills by many members of the project team, whereas larger space missions tend to foster the development of more specialized and narrowly focused
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SOURCE: National Suborbital Education and Research Center, University of North Dakota. FIGURE 6.3 Mark Devlin shown just before the launch of the Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST)
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John Mather and George Smoot, 2006 Nobel Laureates in Physics, made early CMB measurements from balloons and aircraft before joining the COBE mission (Mather is now the senior project scientist on the James Webb Space Telescope)
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The saddest words ever spoken by a NASA administrator were these, in response to a question from a college student at a small satellite conference a few years ago: "Frankly, flying student experiments in orbit is a luxury that we cannot afford at the present time." The new mantra should instead be: "Providing suborbital and orbital flight opportunities for student experi ments is a logical and affordable way of insuring continuity of our Nation's proud heritage in space." -- R. Gilbert Moore, Director, Project Starshine 6.3 NEEDS Balloon flights, because of the complexity of most of their payloads and the need to manage all aspects of a flight from detector arrays to optics, tracking systems, and often cryogenic systems, generally offer rich training opportunities.
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The National Radio Astronomy Observatory has success fully run such schools to introduce young scientists to the intricacies of radio interferometry. A NASA-sponsored summer school on ballooning, for instance, could introduce future users of standard or LDB flights to issues like the design of lightweight optics, guidance, pendulation, and telemetry.
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