Centers for the commercial development of space

In 1985, NASA initiated an innovative effort called Centers for the Commercial Development of Space (CCDS). The CCDS program was designed to increase private-sector interest and investment in space-related activities, while encouraging U.S. economic leadership and stimulating advances in promising areas of research and development. Research conducted in the Centers handling the following areas is summarized: materials processing; life sciences; remote sensing; automation and robotics; space propulsion; space structures and materials; and space power

The Best Way to Assure the Future is to Invent It: the UND Wellness Center

This departmental history was written on the occasion of the UND Quasquicentennial in 2008.https://commons.und.edu/departmental-histories/1086/thumbnail.jp

Special Libraries, January 1966

Volume 57, Issue 1https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1966/1000/thumbnail.jp

Space life sciences: A status report

The scientific research and supporting technology development conducted in the Space Life Sciences Program is described. Accomplishments of the past year are highlighted. Plans for future activities are outlined. Some specific areas of study include the following: Crew health and safety; What happens to humans in space; Gravity, life, and space; Sustenance in space; Life and planet Earth; Life in the Universe; Promoting good science and good will; Building a future for the space life sciences; and Benefits of space life sciences research

Activities of the Center for Space Construction

The Center for Space Construction (CSC) at the University of Colorado at Boulder is one of eight University Space Engineering Research Centers established by NASA in 1988. The mission of the center is to conduct research into space technology and to directly contribute to space engineering education. The center reports to the Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences and resides in the College of Engineering and Applied Science. The college has a long and successful track record of cultivating multi-disciplinary research and education programs. The Center for Space Construction is prominent evidence of this record. At the inception of CSC, the center was primarily founded on the need for research on in-space construction of large space systems like space stations and interplanetary space vehicles. The scope of CSC's research has now evolved to include the design and construction of all spacecraft, large and small. Within this broadened scope, our research projects seek to impact the underlying technological basis for such spacecraft as remote sensing satellites, communication satellites, and other special purpose spacecraft, as well as the technological basis for large space platforms. The center's research focuses on three areas: spacecraft structures, spacecraft operations and control, and regolith and surface systems. In the area of spacecraft structures, our current emphasis is on concepts and modeling of deployable structures, analysis of inflatable structures, structural damage detection algorithms, and composite materials for lightweight structures. In the area of spacecraft operations and control, we are continuing our previous efforts in process control of in-orbit structural assembly. In addition, we have begun two new efforts in formal approach to spacecraft flight software systems design and adaptive attitude control systems. In the area of regolith and surface systems, we are continuing the work of characterizing the physical properties of lunar regolith, and we are at work on a project on path planning for planetary surface rovers

NASA total quality management 1990 accomplishments report

NASA's efforts in Total Quality Management are based on continuous improvement and serve as a foundation for NASA's present and future endeavors. Given here are numerous examples of quality strategies that have proven effective and efficient in a time when cost reduction is critical. These accomplishment benefit our Agency and help to achieve our primary goal, keeping American in the forefront of the aerospace industry

The Promise at Hand

Based on a former RWJF vice president's seminar, gives an overview of the history and role of foundations in U.S. society, their uncertain status as social institutions, and their regulatory history. Urges foundations to see themselves as a public trust

A report on an Arts Administration internship marketing The Arts Center at Okaloosa-Walton Community College

This report is a description of a three-month internship from May 21, 2001 through August 21, 2001 which began as an assignment with The Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra. The NFSO operates under the auspices of Okaloosa-Walton Community College and resides along side the college\u27s Division of Humanities, Fine, & Performing Arts and within The Arts Center facility. My position as an NFSO intern was to be the operations manager in charge of marketing and preparation for the 200 1-2002 season

2nd annual report

The Capsule Pipeline Research Center is devoted to performing research in capsule pipeline so that this emerging technology can be developed for early use to transport solids including coal, grain, other agricultural products, solid wastes (including hazardous wastes), machine parts and a host of other materials and commodities. The mission of the first four years is to focus on the coal log pipeline (CLP) technology. The Center is now near completion of its second-year research. Areas of research covered under Core Program of the second year include hydrodynamics of coal log flow, wear of coal logs in pipelines, pressure transients in capsule pipeline, pumping and control of coal log flow, fabrication and surface-treatment of coal logs, hydrophobic binder, and legal research in coal log pipeline. The Non-Core Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and the Electric Power Research Institute explores the economics and commercialization of CLP, and how to handle coal logs and treat CLP effluent water at power plants. Ten faculty members and more than 30 students from both the Columbia Campus and the Rolla Campus participated in the second-year research. Important research findings and accomplishments during the second year include: success in making durable binderless coal logs by compaction, initial success in binderless-log, underwater extrusion, improvement in the injection system and the pump-bypass scheme, advancement in the state-of-the-art of predicting the energy loss (pressure drop) along both stationary and moving capsules, improved understanding of the water absorption properties of coal logs, better control in coal log surface treatment, better understanding of the mechanism of coal log abrasion, and completion of aspects of legal research dealing with water rights, eminent domain right, and easement right on using existing oil pipelines for coal log transport. The second-year work also involved significant technology transfer activities including company seminars, involving companies in CLP research, preparation of a design/operational manual on CLP, issuance of a second newsletter, completion of a video tape on CLP, and presentation of research findings at several national meetings.Executive summary -- Research program -- Industrial collaboration/technology transfer -- Infrastructure and management -- Industrial advisory board (IAB) -- Contribution to state and local economic development strategies -- Support, financial management & budget -- Evaluator's report -- Appendix 1 : individual project descriptions -- Appendix 2 : attachments