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... The effort required many advanced technologies that did not exist outside of NASA, Terrier said, and the highly competitive atmosphere that developed in the quest for those technologies fostered a culture of self-reliance with the mantra of "failure is not an option." NASA and its closeknit family of contractors became a tightly integrated engine of innovation that produced a number of breakthrough technologies leading to the modern global airline industry and a successful Moon landing in July 1969. In the decades that followed, Terrier said, the agency shifted its focus from competition to collaboration.
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... During this period NASA also worked closely with National Academies project staff to support the workshop development through a variety of activities that included providing information, developing assessments and materials, identifying key NASA participants, and coordinating communications within NASA. Most of the invited workshop participants fell into one of three groups: the leadership of NASA, leading innovation experts with diverse skill sets and experiences in organizational innovation and development, and individuals representing the type of innovator that NASA hopes to encourage.
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... Any opinions expressed in this proceedings of a workshop are those of the individual workshop participants and not of the National Academies. There was no attempt to come to any consensus or to make any formal recommendations, although it was the case that individual workshop participants did draw conclusions and may have expressed their own opinions concerning widespread agreement on certain issues.
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