Advice to Rocket Scientists / Edition 1

by Jim Longuski, Purdue University J Longuski

Overview

As a long-time NASA engineer and astronautics professor, Jim Longuski watched first hand as gifted rocket scientists and students learned their way around the lab only to lose their way in the board room. Longuski decided to write what he calls a survival guide for rocket scientists.

In this small book, Longuski uses humor and personal anecdotes to give engineers and scientists an edge in an industry in which one gets ahead as much on interpersonal skills as on technical merits.

Longuski presents a reality that too many scientists and engineers ignore: Getting ahead and staying happy involves mastering interoffice politics.

If you are a rocket scientist, or want to become a rocket scientist, or know and care about a rocket scientist—then this book is for you.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781563476556
Publisher:	American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics
Publication date:	01/28/2004
Series:	Library of Flight
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	84
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Jim Longuski joined Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1979 after earning a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan.



As a maneuver analyst and mission designer at JPL, Longuski helped plan NASA's Galileo Mission to Jupiter.



In 1988, Longuski began teaching astronautics at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. He has published over one hundred conference and journal articles on spacecraft dynamics and control, reentry theory, mission design, and space trajectory optimization.



Recently, Longuski collaborated with Professor Ephraim Fischbach (at Purdue) and Professor Daniel J. Scheeres (at the University of Michigan) to propose an experiment to test Einstein's theory of gravity at an unprecedented accuracy. This new test of General Relativity would precisely measure the deflection of a spacecraft during a close encounter with the sun.