Creating Psyche: Innovation as Team Sport

What in the world is Phase B?

It’s been six months since Psyche was selected for flight, and we’re starting to settle into a good rhythm of work. But what are we doing? I think it’s taken me these six months to figure out Phase B, where we are right now, myself. Let me share.

The day that NASA called

This is the Facebook post that I wrote that day, January 4, 2017:

I just looked up and it is now dark out, and 8:00 at night…the day has more than flown, it has evaporated.

Is it Football or is it Rocket Science?

An unusual throwdown, and a surprise response

One August morning this year I got an email saying, “Did you hear President Crow challenged the football team to perform as well as Psyche team?” What? But…

Team Building: Big and Small

The LunaH-Map selection call came at 5:54AM local time.

Waiting

This is the Facebook post that I wrote three days before selection, January 1, 2017:

It’s 4:08 PM here in western Massachusetts, and the sun is sinking behind the western hill, the hill belonging to our neighbors Alice and Paul, who is also the person who built our house and designed and…

The birth of a space mission

This July we were back in our little house up in the hills of Massachusetts, and I saw still sitting next to the phone the giant-size Post-It on which I had written the names of everyone I needed to call that astonishing morning six months earlier, January 4, when NASA Associate…