Here comes a valuable and exclusive set of videos and presentations to help you advance your career in aerospace. You will be using two of the tips from How To Be a Rocket Scientist when you click the links below: Tip #7: Use free and informal education resources Tip #10: Appreciate and work on the […]
Eventually! Sure, it will take many more years. Probably several more lifetimes of people like those in the announcement this week that gravitational waves were discovered after two black holes collided. We know that gravity exists. But we don’t understand it well enough yet to create a gravity engine or anti-gravity machine. Eventually perhaps a […]
No, it isn’t my book! But Tip #4 in How To Be a Rocket Scientist is to read a book on rocket science. One of the books on my short list is about the Shuttle Challenger accident, which happened 30 years ago today, on January 28, 1986. Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle […]
Wow! AIAA with the sponsorship of Airbus are providing five days of live streaming events and programs to anyone who wants to watch them! This is an incredible value if you want to hear from top leaders and innovators in the aerospace and aviation worlds. Here’s the main page with the agenda of events and […]
Are you wondering how to be a rocket scientist in 2016? It’s time for us to enter a brand new year! I hope you are ready for it. What if you turned this dream into a goal? A goal is just a dream with a deadline, after all. And what if you turned this goal […]
My family and I just saw The Force Awakens at the theater today. No spoilers for you here–but I’m thrilled to say it was very worthy and epic as a Star Wars movie! It continued the story we all know, and made me want to see what happens next. Which brings me to an important […]
What if there was one thing you could do to satisfy all of these tips from How To Be a Rocket Scientist? Tip #2: Expand your concept of rocket science Tip #3: Associate with people in the field Tip #4: Read a book on rocket science Tip #6: Make a short take-off (STO) into the […]
When I have asked my readers and other people on LinkedIn what topics would be most valuable to them as they pursue their careers in aerospace, PROJECT MANAGEMENT was a common answer. Reflecting on my own career move into project management, and then obtaining a project management certification (PMP), I agree that this is a […]
The ISS has been orbiting Earth for 15 years now, since November 2010. It has been an incredible source of knowledge and exploration in those years. It’s also been the source of powerful inspiration and success for many so-called rocket scientists! Enjoy these videos that show us the wonder of modern engineering, international collaboration, and […]
Everything that can be explained, can be explained simply. Is that really true?! It’s a nice hypothesis and goal for us all. Randall Munroe, the comic genius behind xkcd comics (and a former rocket scientist!), has explained the Saturn V rocket in an illustration that uses only the most 1,000 common words in the English […]
