APPEL News Staff

Academy Bookshelf: Good Strategy, Bad Strategy

January 23, 2012 // by APPEL News Staff

January 26, 2012 Vol. 5, Issue 1 So you say you have a strategy. Richard Rumelt asks if it’s any good.

Kevin Fisher, software systems engineer at Goddard Space Flight Center.

January 23, 2012 // by APPEL News Staff

January 26, 2012: Volume 5, Issue 1 Kevin Fisher made his entrance into systems engineering as a freshman on a team of seniors.

Video Case Study Project HOPE The Story Begins

January 23, 2012 // by APPEL News Staff

January 26, 2012: Volume 5, Issue 1 A young team of engineers had one year and a lot to learn before getting their rocket off the ground.

Workers study Hubble’s main, eight-foot (2.4 m) mirror. The flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope’s optics was due in part to reductions in testing to save money.

ASK Magazine Archive: Success, Failure, and NASA Culture

January 23, 2012 // by APPEL News Staff

January 26, 2012: Volume 5, Issue 1 The root causes of failure are often cultural, not technical, according to Dr. Stephen B. Johnson.

The prime crew of Apollo 1, Virgil I "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White, II, and Roger B. Chaffee, during training in Florida. Credit: NASA

This Month in NASA History: Apollo 1 – Abandon in Place

January 23, 2012 // by APPEL News Staff

January 26, 2012 Vol. 5, Issue 1 Forty-five years ago this month, a cry let out from the Apollo 1 capsule, “There’s a fire in here.”

The International Space Station can be seen as a small object in upper left of this image of the moon in the early evening Jan. 4 in the skies over the Houston area flying at an altitude of 390.8 kilometers (242.8 miles).

Message from the Academy Director: Is Strategy a Fool’s Errand?

January 10, 2012 // by APPEL News Staff

January 26, 2012 Vol. 5, Issue 1 Given the complexity of projects today, the limits of hindsight, and the human inability to predict the future, is strategy a waste of time?

President John F. Kennedy in his historic message to a joint session of the Congress, on May 25, 1961 declared, "...I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth."

A Strategic Decision: Lunar-Orbit Rendezvous

January 10, 2012 // by APPEL News Staff

January 26, 2012: Volume 5, Issue 1 Landing a man on the moon and safely returning him to Earth before the end of the decade came down to choosing the best strategy.

70-meter Deep Space Station at Goldstone, California

Academy Archive: Space-to-Space Communications Case Study

December 20, 2011 // by APPEL News Staff

December 22, 2011 Vol. 4, Issue 10 Project managers need the right resources — including the talent — at the beginning of the project, not the end.

Artist’s concept of the TIMED spacecraft.

This Month in NASA History Launch of TIMED

December 20, 2011 // by APPEL News Staff

December 22, 2011 Vol. 4, Issue 10 Too high for weather balloons, too low for satellites, the “ignorosphere” can’t hide from the TIMED mission, which celebrates the tenth anniversary of its launch this month. We’re all a little less ignorant about what lies 40-110 miles above us, thanks to the Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere Energetics […]

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