Dr. Edwin Fasanella: The Senior Researcher that led the team that proved the technical cause of the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy| Leading Edge Discovery Podcast with Astronaut Charlie Camarda Ph.D
05/05/23 • 51 min
Guest: Dr. Edwin Fasanella, Senior Research Fellow at NASA Langley Research Center [@NASA_Langley]
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Host: Charlie Camarda Ph.D
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Episode Introduction
NASA engineers at JSC and Boeing used a crude impact analysis which was inadequate and led to the wrong decision which resulted in the Columbia accident. Dr. Ed Fasanella was a research engineer at NASA Langley who, against the wishes of Shuttle Program Managers, led a team of NASA researchers which developed an accurate physics-based understanding of the ballistic impact which caused the Columbia accident in only 4 months.
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Guest: Dr. Edwin Fasanella, Senior Research Fellow at NASA Langley Research Center [@NASA_Langley]
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Host: Charlie Camarda Ph.D
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Episode Introduction
NASA engineers at JSC and Boeing used a crude impact analysis which was inadequate and led to the wrong decision which resulted in the Columbia accident. Dr. Ed Fasanella was a research engineer at NASA Langley who, against the wishes of Shuttle Program Managers, led a team of NASA researchers which developed an accurate physics-based understanding of the ballistic impact which caused the Columbia accident in only 4 months.
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Understanding What a Research Culture Is with Dr. Stephen J. Scotti and NASA's Return-to-Flight | Leading Edge Discovery Podcast with Astronaut Charlie Camarda Ph.D
Guest: Dr. Stephen J. Scotti, Distinguished Research Associate at NASA [@NASA] Langley Research Center [@NASA_Langley] and STEM Education Advisor for Brilliant Star Magazine
On LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-scotti-12a2056/
On Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/stephen.j.scotti
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Host: Charlie Camarda Ph.D
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Learn why some of the smaller teams that Steve Scotti led were so successful and outperformed other much larger teams formed by NASA Program Managers. Steve discusses the environment necessary to ensure teams are high performing and very innovative. Listen to him describe the magic of his Space Shuttle wing leading edge on-orbit repair team and the team he led which developed the launch abort system currently used by the Artemis Program.
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Brilliant Star Magazine: https://brilliantstarmagazine.org/themes/DrScotti
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Supercomputing Analysis for NASA Missions | A Conversation with Dr. Olaf Storaasli | Leading Edge Discovery Podcast with Astronaut Charlie Camarda Ph.D
Guest: Dr. Olaf Storaasli, Dr, Oak Ridge National Lab [@ORNL]
On LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/olaf-o-stor%C3%A5sli-9a26121/
On Twitter | https://twitter.com/olaftn
Host: Charlie Camarda Ph.D
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Episode Introduction
Learn how NASA helped the United States lead the development of the world’s fastest computers from Dr. Olaf Storaasli, the first person to receive Cray Computers coveted GigaFLOP Performance Award.
Although a PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Olaf envisioned computers would soon revolutionize structural analysis. He led a hardware-software-systems-application R&D team to build the NASA's first parallel computer, the Finite-Element Machine (FEM). NASA’s FEM led the way & industry soon introduced a plethora of parallel computers which now dominate supercomputing. Olaf’s General-Purpose Parallel Solver evolved with considerable advances from FEM parallel processors to Cray Supercomputers to speed Space Shuttle SRB FEM analysis of a 54,000 DoF (degrees-of-freedom) model from hours to seconds, a performance exceeding 1 petaflop for the 1st time resulting in Cray awarding Olaf & his team with the GIGAFLOP Award at the Annual Supercomputimg Conference in 1989.
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Resources
Life after Langley: Supercomputing: https://olaftn.com/images/LAAOlaf95RR6-8-21.mp4
NASA Retirement: Lessons Learned: https://olaftn.com/NASA/Learned.html
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