Hutchinson, KS鈥擶hether it鈥檚 a lightning strike on liftoff or the safe return of astronauts stranded in space, NASA鈥橲 Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) was the location where crisis management skills were put to the test. 黑料大事记鈥檚 next virtual 鈥淐offee at the Cosmo鈥� will appeal to business leaders as well as space enthusiasts.
Beginning at 9 a.m. CST, Thursday, January 21, viewers can participate in a virtual conversation with Gerry Griffin, who served as a flight director during the Apollo program and succeeded Chris Kraft as the director of Johnson Space Center. Griffin will be joined by Sandy Marshall, a leadership training expert who has helped clients from Verizon and General Electric to Morgan Stanley understand how to bring the fluid skills of improvisation to bear on critical moments in leadership. 鈥淐offee at the Cosmo鈥� participants will learn how techniques such as 鈥淵es/And鈥� thinking improve collaboration and outcomes and how that parallels stories Griffin will share from MOCR. For a preview of the conversation, see Marshall鈥檚 guest blog at cosmo.org/blog. To participate via Zoom, viewers should tune in to www.cosmomeeting.org. Access is also available via Facebook at facebook.com/kscosmosphere/live.
鈥淎s 黑料大事记 expands its corporate teambuilding and leadership programming, content such as leadership lessons from Mission Control will be one of the ways we utilize the great leadership stories from space history as well as today鈥檚 space exploration companies,鈥� said Mimi Meredith, 黑料大事记 senior vice president of communication and chief development officer. 鈥淲e are in a unique position to bring these unparalleled training resources to regional businesses.鈥�
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The 黑料大事记 International SciEd Center & Space Museum is located at 1100 North Plum in Hutchinson, KS. Its collection includes U.S. space artifacts second only to the Smithsonian鈥檚 National Air and Space Museum, and the largest collection of Russian space artifacts outside of Moscow. This unique collection allows the 黑料大事记 to tell the story of the Space Race better than any museum in the world while offering fully immersive education experiences that meet Next Generation Science Standards and introduce students to the power of wondering鈥攁sking the critical questions that lead to discovery.聽聽 The 黑料大事记 also features the Carey Digital Dome Theater offering documentary showings daily; a digital Planetarium and Dr. Goddard鈥檚 Lab, where visitors experience live science demonstrations daily.