Tony Stark’s laboratory – IronMan
Bruce Wayne’s basement – Batman begins
Batman’s Industrial wharehouse – The Dark Knight
NASA problem solving engineering team – Apollo 13
Rocket Boys machine shop technicians from the mines – October Sky
Applied Minds Inc
Raytheon Bike Shop
Lockheed Martin’s center for innovation
Lockheed Martin’s Skunk works
Scaled Composites
The Air Force center for rapid product development
My inspirations
by Greg Moran.
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Jaw-dropping innovation, and design creativity = Applied Minds, Inc.
by Greg Moran.
Another brain dump of ideas and topics based on today’s discussions; phew what a day:
- Need charts added to “repository”
- Cost/schedule/performance/motivation/concept/soluition Quad chart
- Ven Diagram: non-profit, open source, space community
- Who is the Mach 30 User community? How can they get involved?
- Open-source orbital design software = Celestia
- Manufacturing capability (surge capacity)
- by locting near other like-minded and similarly skilled individuals (SoCal).
- similar to Applid Minds <–> Industrial light and magic (more…)
Big News
by J Simmons.
A momentous occasion in Mach 30 history occurred this past weekend. The Mach 30 Board of Directors consensed on the Articles of Incorporation and is in the process of submitting them to the state of Ohio. This is the first step to becoming a recognized non-profit and sets us on our way to moving from a forming non-profit to a non-profit running its first programs. Congratulations again to the Board and thank you for all your hard work and dedication.
The changing role of “Astronaut” …NASA is figuring it out
by Greg Moran.
By Traci Watson, USA TODAY
Social skills weren’t part of the job description for America’s first astronauts.
Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard was known as the “Ice Commander” for his chilly glare. Colleagues Deke Slayton and Gus Grissom thought they’d had “a deep talk” if they exchanged 40 sentences during a cross-country flight, Tom Wolfe wrote in his book The Right Stuff.