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Dr. Anthony Luscher, instructor for APPEL’s Seven Axioms of Good Engineering course, discusses the Hubble Space Telescope optical failure during class.
Online APPEL Courses Added to SATERN

The Academy converted three of its most popular courses to an e-learning format and has made them available to NASA employees through the agency’s learning management system.

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After the JSC team finished their first flight, team members Sara Scarritt and Rebecca Johanning review their results and are thrilled to see that the image processing algorithm correctly identified one of the targets.
Rocket U UAS Competition Series: Team JASAR

The Johnson Autonomous Search and Rescue (JASAR) competition team built upon existing capability with their remote control (R/C) helicopter, but had to pave the way for flying their unmanned aerial system (UAS) at their center.

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ystems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) lead and pilot Peter Ma, operates the MSFC development vehicle, Rogue, during early flight testing.
Rocket U UAS Competition Series: Team Aero-M

As a late entrant to the Rocket U Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Competition, Marshall Space Flight Center’s “Aero-M” team brought a competitive edge with their hexacopter. 

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The JSC helicopter in flight on the day of the competition.
Rocket U Unmanned Aerial Systems Competition Series: The Beginning

A mock search and rescue mission provided three young engineering teams the opportunity to learn about NASA’s systems engineering and project management principles.

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Introducing the APPEL News Digest

January 2014 marks the first release of the APPEL News Digest, the Academy’s monthly news and events update. Have you signed up? 

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NASA Releases Knowledge Policy for Programs and Projects

NASA has a new knowledge policy for programs and projects.

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NASA APPEL Website Improvements
APPEL Website Improvements

The first wave of updates to the APPEL website are complete—and there’s more in store for 2014. 

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Inside a laboratory in the Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, research chemist Mary Coan describes components of the Regolith and Environment Science and Oxygen and Lunar Volatiles Extraction, or RESOLVE, rover to a group of Society of Physics students. About 800 graduate and undergraduate physics students toured Kennedy facilities. A group of about 40 students toured laboratories in the Operations and Checkout Building and the EDL during their visit. The physics students were in Orlando for the 2012 Quadrennial Physics Congress.
NASA Young Professional Science Talks

Kennedy Space Center young professionals kick off the first in a series of NASA young professional presentations about their daily work across the agency.

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NASA’s Stardust sample-return capsule is seen with heat shield intact after is successfully landed at the U.S. Air Force Utah Test and Training Range.
This Month in NASA History: Tenth Anniversary of Stardust’s Encounter with Comet Wild 2

A decade ago, Stardust rendezvoused with Comet Wild 2 to become the first mission to capture and return a cometary sample to Earth.

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