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A model of the X-59 forebody is undergoing testing in the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works’ wind tunnel in Palmdale, California. Credit: NASA/Garry Tice
January 2023 INSIGHT Now Available

Don’t miss the latest issue of INSIGHT, APPEL Knowledge Services’ online publication featuring our new podcast episodes, columns, articles, lessons learned and more. We invite you to read it today on our website.

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System Expert Performing Analysis of a Thermal Protection System Tile. Credit: NASA
Spotlight on Lessons Learned: Component Identification Procedures Used in the Columbia Accident Investigation

Procedures developed by the NASA community to identify, catalog, and inspect accident debris proved invaluable in the Space Shuttle Columbia accident investigation.

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2017 NASA astronaut candidate Jessica Watkins is helped into a spacesuit prior to underwater spacewalk training at NASA Johnson Space Center’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in Houston. Credit: NASA/David DeHoyos
Podcast Episode 100: NASA’s Extraordinary Workforce

NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy discusses NASA’s positive impact on humanity—and the people who make it happen.

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Space Shuttle Orbiter Columbia STS-107 mission is launching toward space from launch pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center on January 16, 2003. Credit: NASA
Critical Knowledge inSight: Communication Lessons from the Columbia Tragedy

Good communication is a two-way street that requires those delivering and receiving communication to pay attention to some key rules to be effective.

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A wreath is displayed during the NASA Day of Remembrance ceremony at the Space Mirror Memorial in the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Credit: NASA
Featured Video: NASA Remembers Fallen Heroes

NASA remembers the crews of Apollo 1, space shuttles Challenger and Columbia during the agency’s Day of Remembrance on Jan. 26, 2023.

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NASA’s Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I mission is pictured here floating off the coast of Baja California in the Pacific Ocean. Orion was successfully recovered inside the well deck of the USS Portland on Dec. 11, 2022. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
December 2022 INSIGHT Now Available

Don’t miss the latest issue of INSIGHT, APPEL Knowledge Services’ online publication featuring our new podcast episodes, columns, articles, lessons learned and more. We invite you to read it today on our website.

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Graphic showing the configuration of the MSL Descent Stage for the final mechanical walkdown. Credit: NASA
Spotlight on Lessons Learned: Conduct a Final Mechanical Walkdown Prior to Spacecraft Integration with the Launch Vehicle

Independent mechanical walkdowns of spacecraft are sometimes credited with discovering discrepancies that could have interfered with mission success.

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Screenshot of Keith Walyus looking at the camera and speaking during his interview. Credit: NASA
Critical Knowledge inSight: Stay Focused on the Mission

A program manager needs to stay mission-focused in order to reach success.

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This landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals for the first time previously invisible areas of star birth. Credit: NASA
Podcast Episode 99: Webb Space Telescope’s First Year

NASA James Webb Space Telescope Mission Systems Engineer Mike Menzel discusses highlights of the observatory’s first year in space.

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