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The art of stepping back: What NASA’s Space Shuttle can teach innovators today

In a new study published in the Strategic Management Journal, the team outlined NASA’s non-linear design approach. While designing the Space Shuttle, the US space agency often took a step back to ...
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NASA Develops New Design Process for Future Spacecraft

button and you are flying another version of the vehicle. Press another button and you are flying the Space Shuttle or any vehicle in the VMS database,” said Mikula. In the latest round of testing, a ...
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NASA Uses AI to Design Spacecraft, Mission Hardware that Looks Like Weird Bones

NASA employed the advancements of artificial intelligence to design spacecraft and mission hardware that weighs less and tolerate higher structural loads. However, the end results were kind of "odd".
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Space shuttle lessons: Backtracks can create breakthroughs

In a new study, Francisco Polidoro Jr., professor of management at Texas McCombs, finds present-day insights in an old innovation story: how NASA developed its space shuttles, which flew from 1981 to ...
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The Revolutionary Way NASA Uses AI To Design Hardware For Other Worlds

Artificial intelligence (AI) is having a moment right now. ChatGPT is all over the news, image generators are cropping up left and right, and Elon Musk just publicly called for stricter AI regulation ...
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NASA Completes Critical Design Review for Space Launch System

For the first time in almost 40 years, a NASA human-rated rocket has completed all steps needed to clear a critical design review (CDR). The agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) is the first vehicle ...