Tag: NASA

This image shows an imagined starry background with a football superimposed, along with Earth, the moon, and a comet. The football has the NASA logo on it.

October 23, 2017 / Lindy Elkins-Tanton

Is it Football or is it Rocket Science?

One August morning this year I got an email saying, “Did you hear President Crow challenged the football team to perform as well as Psyche team?” What?

This is a photograph of members of the Psyche team standing in front of a 3D mid size Psyche model located within the Maxar (formerly SSL) facility.

October 12, 2017 / Tess Calvert

Project Management — Start with the Basics

I’ve been a part of projects where, when things went sideways, we would calm everyone by saying “It’s going to be fine! It’s not rocket science!” This time, IT IS ROCKET SCIENCE!

This artist's conception shows a close-up of the Psyche spacecraft against a starry background orbiting above the heavily cratered surface of the Psyche asteroid.

October 4, 2017 / David Oh

Creating Psyche: Innovation as Team Sport

I have been working with Lindy for over four years as system architect for the Psyche mission concept. The idea for the Psyche mission appealed to me from the very beginning.

This image shows the LunaH-Map team standing with a large poster of the LunaH-Map logo.

September 18, 2017 / Craig Hardgrove

Team Building: Big and Small

True to form, the day of selection for LunaH-Map was unlike most planetary missions that have come before.

This artist's conception shows the Psyche spacecraft against a starry background orbiting above the heavily cratered surface of the Psyche asteroid.

August 28, 2017 / Lindy Elkins-Tanton

What in the world is Phase B?

I think it’s taken me these six months to figure out Phase B, where we are right now, myself. Let me share.

This image shows the Principal Investigator, Lindy Elkins-Tanton, and other members of the team.

August 22, 2017 / Lindy Elkins-Tanton

The day that NASA called

This is the Facebook post that I wrote that day, January 4, 2017: I just looked up and it is now dark out, and 8:00 at night…the day has more than flown, it has evaporated.

August 15, 2017 / Lindy Elkins-Tanton

Waiting

This is the Facebook post that I wrote three days before selection, January 1, 2017…

At the top of the image it says "Psyche - Journey to a Metal World" and below are two planets colliding.

August 13, 2017 / Lindy Elkins-Tanton

The birth of a space mission

This July we were back in our little house up in the hills of Massachusetts, and I saw still sitting next to the phone the giant-size Post-It…