APPEL News Digest

Early-career NASA employees from four hands-on development projects share their lessons learned in new online video modules.

APPEL’s courses and virtual library get a boost with new online resources.

A first-time project manager is leading a team of young engineers to launch an innovative CubeSat mission.

Langley Research Center systems engineer Kevin “Vip” Vipavetz shared a compilation of lessons from developing solar array structures and mechanisms—a high-risk component for many missions after launch and on orbit.

A September balloon launch by a young team of NASA engineers paves the way for higher resolution heliophysics and astrophysics observations.

On October 30, 2000, the first International Space Station crew launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, kicking off a 13-year streak of human presence in space that continues to this day. 

Like NASA’s Gravity Probe B and Kepler spacecraft, the New Horizons mission to Pluto was a long time in the making, overcoming many obstacles before ever leaving the launch pad.

By Dawn Schaible and Tim Wilson  Memories fade, and with them so does the impact of lessons learned.  Ten years after the Columbia tragedy we need to remind ourselves of these lessons and continue to be vigilant as NASA develops its current and future missions.

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