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New Book Instructs Anyone How to Think Like a Rocket Scientist
AScribe ^ | 11/27/06

Posted on 11/27/2006 8:02:25 PM PST by KevinDavis

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Nov. 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- Now anyone can think like a rocket scientist, thanks to a new book written by a Purdue University professor.

"This book is for people who would like to learn the methods rocket scientists use and have them told in a way that you can apply to your everyday life," said James Longuski, a NASA veteran and professor of aeronautics and astronautics. "There is not one single equation."

Thinking like a rocket scientist is a valuable skill because the same general methods apply to the completion of any project, said Longuski, who was a maneuver analyst and a mission designer for nine years at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, Calif., before coming to Purdue in 1988.

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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: rocket

1 posted on 11/27/2006 8:02:26 PM PST by KevinDavis
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2 posted on 11/27/2006 8:03:03 PM PST by KevinDavis (Nancy you ignorant Slut!!!!!)
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To: patton

oh no!


3 posted on 11/27/2006 8:09:22 PM PST by leda (Life is always what you make it!)
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To: leda

Ah-hem - these are they guys that confused metric with british, and crashed a $100-million satellite into mars? Pass.


4 posted on 11/27/2006 8:14:24 PM PST by patton (Sanctimony frequently reaps its own reward.)
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To: patton

even more frightening then ;)


5 posted on 11/27/2006 8:15:33 PM PST by leda (Life is always what you make it!)
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To: patton
Ah-hem - these are they guys that confused metric with british, and crashed a $100-million satellite into mars? Pass.

Maybe they're the guys who can fly a cruise missile through your bathroom window after launching it from 200 miles away...(grin)

6 posted on 11/27/2006 8:25:00 PM PST by snarks_when_bored
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To: KevinDavis

When I make a mistake or do something ditzy, I always tell any witnesses that I never did things like that until I went blonde, and that before I became blonde I was a rocket scientist.


7 posted on 11/27/2006 9:01:07 PM PST by pax_et_bonum (I will always love you, Flyer.)
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To: patton
IIRC, the problem with the english/metric snafu was JIT project management.

The people that designed (and launched?) the thing were given a very short time to hand over the landing responsibility
to the crew that was brought on board, just in time, to land the thing.

Obviously, not everything got handed over ...

Think like a rocket scientist: "It's only taxpayer money".

8 posted on 11/27/2006 10:10:48 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: KevinDavis

The most important thing you need to know about rocket science is that the pointy end goes up.


9 posted on 11/28/2006 3:51:32 AM PST by meowmeow (In Loving Memory of Our Dear Viking Kitty (1987-2006))
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To: meowmeow

That's what Bill said to Monica...


10 posted on 11/29/2006 6:54:47 AM PST by boris (The deadliest weapon of mass destruction in history is a leftist with a word processor.)
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