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...four decades it has been affiliated with NASA, the lab has dispatched probes to seven of the planets and dozens of their moons and has tossed in the sun, our own moon and a comet for good measure. "We do interplanetary," says Pete Theisinger, a deputy director of Mars exploration. "We're not the only people who can do it, but we're the only ones who have done it for 40 years...
...question for both science types and business types is, Why? What is it about J.P.L. that has made it the little space engine that could? The lab is undeniably a science center first. But it's a business of sorts too, facing all the challenges that confront any going concern. Industry could learn something from six straightforward rules J.P.L. has always taken care to follow, rules that may have done more than anything else to make it such a thriving operation...
...company R&D is a secretive thing, often taking place in isolated Skunk Works closed off from the rest of the company, to say nothing of the world. That's not the way things work at J.P.L. The lab is not owned by NASA but rather is a nonprofit, federally funded research center managed by the California Institute of Technology and does its work for NASA under contract. The academics who work there come from the world of peer review, in which even theoretical work isn't considered sound until a lot of objective eyes have had a chance...
...never have made it to the surface if someone who saw the plans had not begun fretting about the Martian winds the ships would encounter and argued for additional thrusters to counteract them. The thrusters were added, and the design change made all the difference. More recently, the lab was planning the less publicized Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE)--a twin-satellite pas de deux designed to measure Earth's gravitational field and its effect on ocean currents. A critical step was eliminating any wobble between the ships. J.P.L. staff members had been working with engineers at Stanford University...
...Gasolina,” [by Abaya]. It was the first time I’d heard [Reggaetone]. It was in my lab – sleep deprivation research. We’d listen to it and bond while number-crunching, with the subjects hooked up to electrodes downstairs...