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NESC Overview
What is the NESC? NASA Engineering and Safety Center's (NESC) mission is to perform value-added independent testing, analysis, and assessments of NASA's high-risk projects to ensure safety and mission success. The NESC engages proactively to help NASA avoid future problems. NESC is an independently funded program with a dedicated team of technical experts that provides objective engineering and safety assessments of critical, high-risk projects. This is the charge of the NESC: an organization dedicated to promoting safety through engineering excellence, unaffected and unbiased by the programs it is evaluating. The NESC is a resource and is meant to benefit the programs and organizations within the Agency, the Centers, and the people who work there. + Read More
 | Find answers to common questions. + Frequently Asked Questions Learn more about the NESC background and organization. + NESC Overview Presentation |
NESC Features
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Alternate Launch Abort System (ALAS) Team
The Alternate Launch Abort System is a concept conceived as a means of reducing critical loads as carried by the Crew Module pressure shell.
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Max Launch Abort System (MLAS) Team
NESC is working on an alternate vehicle concept as risk mitigation for the Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) Launch Abort System (LAS) concept.
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Composite Crew Module
The NESC Composite Crew Module (CCM) team is chartered to develop a Crew Module (CM).
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NESC Academy: Loads and Dynamics Course Completed
The NESC Academy explored Loads and Dynamics in a 3-day classroom course, entitled: “Loads and Dynamics—Learning from the Past and Looking to the Future,” offered December 4-6, 2007, in Houston, Texas.
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NESC Academy Online Courses
The NESC Academy offers online versions of the classroom courses through their NESC Academy web site
NESC Latest News
| 10.10.07 - NASA Studying Possible Wing Problem NASA is studying a possible problem with the thermal shielding on Discovery's wings that could force a delay in this month's launch. + Read More | |||
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| 08.16.07 - Carbon Composite Materials Might Not Be So Bad for Spacecraft... For the first time ever, the Space Shuttle will fly with an all-composite "carrier" in its cargo bay. + Read More | |||
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Organization Structure
 | Director, Ralph R. Roe, Jr. + Biography |
 | Deputy Director, Timmy R. Wilson + Biography |
 | Organization Structure + Read More |