HANDS IN SPACE—
Inspiring NASA at the Masters Forum

Peter Homer's improvement on NASA's astronaut glove is an inspiring story of perseverance in the face of apparent failure. The new glove design shows how rapid prototyping can produce remarkable results.

This is a story equally important to NASA engineers wrestling with complex multibillion-dollar space projects, and to students wrestling with slippery concepts of pressure, force, and work. 

In October 2007 the team of Peter Homer and Peter Lord (both engineers with 14 patents for spacecraft hardware between them) was invited to Phoenix to share their aerospace experiences with some of NASA’s finest engineers and managers.

Their presentation, “Big Innovation from Small Teams,” was part of the semi-annual Masters Forum conducted by the NASA Academy of Program/Project Engineering Leadership. Forum organizer Rosie Robinson declared that the "two Peters from Maine," as they came to be known, were a “big hit.”

The winter issue of NASA ASK Magazine features twin articles by the two Peters based on their Masters Forum presentation.

Peter Homer shares his story with NASA engineers in his article "The Astronaut Glove Challenge: Big Innovation from a (Very) Small Team."

And Peter Lord tells the educational side of the story in "Using the Space Glove to Teach Spatial Thinking."

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