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The 4-Hour Flight and Fiery Re-Entry That Could Give NASA Its Mojo Back Page 24 November 2014 ORION The 4-hour flight and fiery re-entry that could give NASA its mojo back page 24 Proactive on cybersecurity/page 30 Earth-observing Sentinels/page 34 Aireon’s Thoma on airliner surveillance page 22 A PUBLICATIONPUBLICATION OFOF THETHE AMERICANAMERICAN INSTITUTEINSTITUTE OFOF AERONAUTICSAERONAUTICS ANDAND ASTRONAUTICSASTRONAUTICS 5–9 JANUARY 2015 KISSIMMEE, FLORIDA “It’s a no-brainer. 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Philip Butterworth-Hayes, Keith Button, It’s good to see that NASA’s technology managers haven’t shied away from a Leonard David, Natalia Mironova, Marc bold unmanned test, despite what is probably a strong desire on the policy side of Selinger, Robert van der Linden, Frank the house for an exciting but ultimately triumphant splashdown in the Pacific Ocean Winter, Debra Werner, Mark Williamson in front of the American public, lawmakers and bloggers. Jane Fitzgerald Missions like Exploration Flight Test-1 are expensive, so lessons must be Art Direction and Design gleaned that could not have been learned in test chambers or ranges here on Earth. James F. Albaugh, President That said, one reason for choosing a capsule-and-rocket design was to ensure faster Sandra H. Magnus, Publisher and cost-efficient development of a system that can be trusted to carry astronauts. Craig Byl, Manufacturing and Distribution Success will mean that NASA and Lockheed Martin learn valuable technical lessons even as they validate the basic strategy of dusting off and modernizing the Apollo STEERING COMMITTEE blueprint. Steven E. Gorrell, Brigham Young University; David R. Riley, Boeing; Mary L. Snitch, This will not be a publicity stunt rigged for success, that’s for sure. Engineers at Lockheed Martin; Vigor Yang, Georgia Lockheed Martin and NASA will be gauging the ability of Orion to withstand radia- Institute of Technology; Annalisa Weigel, tion and protect astronauts from it. The capsule will need to survive 4,0000-degree Fairmont Consulting Group; Susan X. Ying Fahrenheit re-entry speeds with a repaired thermal protection system. NASA and its EDITORIAL BOARD contractors stand to draw significant performance facts and lessons for future ver- Ned Allen, Jean-Michel Contant, sions of the capsules. Eugene Covert, L.S. “Skip” Fletcher, As exciting as all that is, there’s more riding on EFT-1 than technical outcomes. Michael Francis, Cam Martin, The mission will provide NASA managers and members of Congress with their best Don Richardson, Douglas Yazell gauge yet of the public’s willingness to support human spaceflight as a national ADVERTISING priority for the 21st century. Early indications show significant media interest in the Joan Daly, 703-938-5907 mission, judging by the online coverage of sea recovery tests conducted earlier this [email protected] year with Orion mockups. Pat Walker, 415-387-7593 The truth is that bringing large national projects like Orion to fruition must al- [email protected] ways involve doing more than what might be popular at the moment. Leadership and wise engineering will be required, as will recognition that ultimately agencies LETTERS AND CORRESPONDENCE like NASA and their contractors work for the America people. Ben Iannotta, [email protected] QUESTIONS AND ADDRESS CHANGES Ben Iannotta [email protected] Editor-in-Chief ADVERTISING MATERIALS Craig Byl, [email protected] October 2014, Vol. 52, No. 10 Letters to the Editor Women engineers and the workplace culture A response to “Wanted: More di- put their mark on the organiza- engineering will continue to be versity in engineering” [Septem- tions, and so we continue, after an unfriendly work environment. ber, page 11] all these years, to fit into a culture Talking about diversity helps I’ve been in engineering since that doesn’t fit many of us. I be- people understand that cultural 1986 and often one of the few lieve the combined attributes of norms vary, but it doesn’t talk women in the workplace. It is my the existing and new cultures will about how people should be opinion that one of the factors serve all best, but I don’t know treated. Treating everyone just that keeps girls from entering en- that anyone is really trying to like you treat everyone else is not gineering and women from stay- study those effects. the solution, if you treat people ing has to do with the culture of Having worked in several poorly. the workplace or academic insti- companies and two industries I would like to see some tution, rather than interest or apti- (energy and aerospace), I still see studies address this aspect. tude. This culture isn’t necessarily that the women who succeed Thank you for bringing the one of discrimination, but it is have adapted to the culture cre- issue to the audience of Aero- more about how people within ated by men and have not tried space America. engineering organizations interact to make the culture change. Until Karen MacKenizie with one another. Women haven’t this happens — for women or Seattle those from other backgrounds — [email protected] What’s lost with renewable fuels The article on October 2014 Central America, CONNECT synthetic fuels losing 83 percent was very informa- of wild animals, AND NETWORK tive and encour- largely due to aging in certain destruction of respects [“Biofuels rain forest and now,” October, SUGAR jungle. ACHIEVE Fly cleanRUSH now with biofuels AND PLAN YOUR CAREER page 30]. We can rea- However, we sonably ask if cannot label some of the hab- such fuels as “re- itat loss was as- INSPIRE newable” if they sociated with the AND LAUNCH A LEGACY are derived from cultivation of the destruction The tech behind the Army’s plants destined of wildlife habi- vertical lift competition to become “re- FAA’s Bolton on getting tat. Recently in NextGen on track newable” fuels. 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