Category Archives: Technology

Benefitting from Technology Transfer

Posted on September 23, 2019 by Bart Leahy

To complete my summary of things learned at the Space Foundation’s Space Commerce small business workshop, I’ll finish up, as they did, with opportunities to be had from the NASA Technology Transfer program (TTP). Again, this is more applicable to those of … Continue reading →

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Positioning Your Business

Posted on August 29, 2019 by Bart Leahy

Continuing with my observations from the Space Foundation workshop, today, I’ll be talking about establishing yourself as a small-business service provider. What follows will be a mix of the presenters’ thoughts and my own.

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It’s Getting Kind of Haptic: Technical Writing in the Age of Tactile Interfaces

Posted on August 22, 2019 by Bart Leahy

Recently I went to the Secrets of the Empire virtual reality (VR) experience (you can read about that here). It was a game environment mixing VR and physical elements. While there was a brief script introducing this team-based, first-person-shooter game, for … Continue reading →

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Future Challenges in Space Writing

Posted on July 29, 2019 by Bart Leahy

As promised, today I’ll take on the subject of future issues in technical writing in a space context. This war born out of a Facebook discussion with my former thesis advisor, Karla Kitalong, who’s now teaching at Michigan Technological University. … Continue reading →

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Technical Writing in Space

Posted on July 25, 2019 by Bart Leahy

Updated 7/25/19, 11:18 a.m. Following a discussion about future topics in space-related technical communication, I started to wonder about how tech comm is handled in space NOW. What followed was a fascinating discussion with a friend in the astronaut training … Continue reading →

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