On October 4, 1957 the former Soviet Union launched this man-made satellite to orbit the Earth.
What is Sputnik?
100
Faster, Better, Cheaper was intended to unleash dormant creativity and reduce aversion to risk
What is FBC?
100
He sponsored the agency-wide knowledge management initiative at NASA in January 2000.
Who is Lee Holcomb?
200
It was a billion dollar mission to Saturn
What is the Cassini mission?
200
Days before Sputnik’s first anniversary, the U.S. congress established this organization on October 1, 1958 by assembling several existing federal agencies and organizations.
What is NASA?
200
One of the first widely publicized FBC based missions.
What is Mars Pathfinder?
200
Getting the right information to the right people at the right time, and helping people create knowledge and share and act upon information in ways that will measurably improve performance of NASA and its partners.
What is knowledge management?
300
Project managers were thinking about project success, not program success.
What is short changing the future?
300
In June 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to land on the Moon and return home safely riding this spacecraft.
What is Apollo 11?
300
He knew successful management and engineering practices and was involved in the entire project process.
Who is Anthony Spear?
300
NASA's formal mechanism for sharing lessons learned across the agency.
What is LLIS (Lessons Learned Information Systems)?
400
Get information on the fly and only get parts of information when the mission was over.
What is the partial solution?
400
Pictures taken of the solar system revolutionized the astronauts’ understanding of the outer planets as a result of this project.
What is Project Voyager?
400
In 1999 NASA lost this cryogenically cooled telescope. It stands for Wide-Field Infrared Explorer.
15. What is WIRE?
400
Created for internal use, these two web pages were developed as customizable portals that staffers used to search efficiently for information they needed on an ongoing basis.
What are Inside JPL and Inside NASA pages?
500
When you change A, you have a sense of how it affects B,C and D. But once you think you understand it, something tends to bite you.
What is "unknown unknowns"?
500
In January 1986, this shuttle exploded 73 seconds after liftoff and killed all seven crew members.
What is Shuttle Challenger?
500
In December of 2000, Mars Polar Lander and these twin microprobes that rode with it disappeared without a trace.
What are Deep Space 2 microprobes?
500
Available to all NASA staff, offered individual career development opportunities, online management tools and performance support for project teams.
What is APPL (Academy of Program and Project Leadership)?