NASA Technology Readiness Levels. With Unicorns.

So majestic.  Credit: Meiklejohn Graphics

So majestic.
Credit: Meiklejohn Graphics

 

We once spent two hours arguing whether one component on an instrument concept* was Technology Readiness Level 3 or 4. During that meeting, I wrote this. It became popular at NASA HQ and JPL and, on request, I later refined it into this.

This page serves as a living repository for the only mildly popular thing I’ve ever done.

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*We should do a Europa Lander someday.

Grant Tremblay

Dr. Grant Tremblay is an Astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian