Oral History Interview with Charles Elachi, February 24, 2009--Photographs--Digital Images--Item 8

Charles Elachi, director of the NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) from 2001 to 2016, oversaw a staff with the ability to work out extremely complex problems and see them through to realization. To him, innovation is rooted in taking risks and learning from failure. In 2009, he was interviewed at the JPL Museum in Pasadena, California, as part of The Henry Ford's Collecting Innovation Today Oral History Project.