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APPEL Explores: Project Management for Non-Technical NASA Staff
Putting The Fundamentals of Project Management into Practice

The people who manage NASA’s missions rely on project management techniques to do their jobs. Now an APPEL course brings those skills to a whole new NASA audience.

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President Herbert Hoover presents the NACA’s first Collier Trophy in 1929. Photo Credit: NACA
This Month in NASA History: The NACA Took Flight

One hundred years ago this month, NASA’s predecessor—the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA)—was established.

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The SLS solid rocket motor fires up during its successful hot motor test on March 11, 2015. Photo Credit: Orbital ATK
Successful SLS Test Boosts Potential for Manned Deep Space Travel

As NASA celebrates the centenary of its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the agency marks a major milestone along the journey to Mars.

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In the past year, NASA has launched five new Earth science missions designed to examine the effects of planetary climate change. Photo Credit: NASA
A View from Space Expands Understanding of Earth

To help scientists better understand and address planetary climate change, NASA’s Earth-observing fleet has grown by 25% in the past year.

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The SLS’s RS-25 engine undergoes a 500-second test fire at Stennis Space Center. Photo Credit: NASA
A Built-In Heritage of Successful Human Spaceflight

The Space Launch System (SLS), NASA’s powerful new heavy lift launch vehicle, incorporates elements from some of the agency’s most successful past programs.

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The largest part of the James Webb Space Telescope observatory is the Sunshield, which is roughly the length of a tennis court. It protects the telescope’s sensitive infrared instruments, which require extremely cold temperatures to function. Photo Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn
Government Brief: GAO Reviews the James Webb Space Telescope

With less than four years until launch, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) advises further cost risk analysis for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

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An antenna at the end of the 200-foot mast extending from the Endeavour facilitated 24-hour mapping of the globe. The mast was the longest rigid structure ever deployed from the shuttle. Photo Credit: NASA
This Month in NASA History: The Space Shuttle Mapped the World

Fifteen years ago this month, Endeavour (STS-99) overcame launch delays and on-orbit challenges to capture Earth’s topography in unprecedented detail.

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NASA astronaut Robert L. Curbeam Jr. and European Space Agency astronaut Christer Fuglesang participate in an extravehicular activity (EVA) on the ISS. Photo Credit: NASA
Examining the Benefits of Commercial Crew Transport in Low Earth Orbit

Affordability, flexibility, and expansion into deep space: NASA’s Commercial Crew Program is poised to support the agency in multiple ways.

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This artist rendering shows an aerial view of the liftoff of the 70-metric-ton (77-ton) lift capacity configuration SLS from the launchpad. The first flight test of NASA's new rocket is scheduled for 2017. Image Credit: NASA/MSFC
Building A Strong Future in Space and on Earth

In his State of NASA speech on February 2, 2015, NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden shared his excitement about the robust future of the agency.

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