NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC)
NESC's 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.
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We’re here to help NASA programs and projects.
We perform value-added independent testing, analysis, and assessments of NASA’s high-risk projects to ensure safety and mission success.
Each NASA field center has a local NESC representative who serves as a point of contact for center-based issues related to the NESC.
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Knowledge Products
Capturing and preserving critical knowledge for the future.
The NESC is engaged in activities to identify, retain, and share critical knowledge in order to meet our future challenges. To disseminate that knowledge to engineers – within NASA, industry, and academia – the NESC develops a wide variety of knowledge products that can be readily accessed including technical assessment reports, technical bulletins, video libraries, and more.
Read MoreNESC Academy
Providing Engineering Insight. On-demand.
The NESC Academy presents live and on-demand content from researchers, engineers, and field experts in 19 technical disciplines relevant to the design, development, test, and operation of NASA programs and projects. It hosts more than 900 videos containing interviews, tutorials, lectures, and lessons learned in an engaging format with powerful search capabilities, downloadable course materials, and more.
Read MoreNASA Engineering Network
Connecting NASA’s people, information, and tools.
The NASA Engineering Network allows employees to engage and collaborate with peers and experts across the agency or find relevant information; whether you’re on-site at any NASA center or working remotely with VPN access.
Read More (NASA Internal)NESC Honor Awards
Rewarding excellence in engineering, leadership, teamwork, and communication.
These honorary awards formally identify individuals and groups who have made outstanding contributions to NESC’s mission.
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NESC Events
Enhancing NASA’s engineering disciplines.
Workshops and other events may be sponsored or hosted by the NESC in order to facilitate discussion of hot topics or concerns requiring broad perspectives from both within and outside the Agency.
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Latest NESC News
Considerations for Using Autonomous Flight Termination Softwarein Crewed Launch Vehicles
Material Compatibility of Common Aerospace Metals in MMH/MON-3
Innovation that Impacts All NASA Missions: Improving How We Engineer Our Systems
Identification of Noise Sources During Launch Using Phased Array Microphone Systems
