APPEL News

November 25, 2008 Vol. 1, Issue 11   More than anything else, NASA depends on the brainpower of its workforce.

November 25, 2008 Vol. 1, Issue 11   As projects have become increasingly international, some organizations have looked to the open source movement as a model for developing common global standards for project management.

November 25, 2008 Vol. 1, Issue 11   The behaviors and characteristics of outstanding systems engineers were the subject of a six-month study led by Christine Williams, Director of the Systems Engineering Leadership Development Program.

November 25, 2008 Vol. 1, Issue 11   Masters Forum 17 was an occasion befitting NASA’s fiftieth anniversary.

November 25, 2008 Vol. 1, Issue 11   The Einstein Observatory, the second of NASA’s three High Energy Astronomy Observatories, was launched into orbit on an Atlas-Centaur rocket on November 13, 1978.

November 25, 2008 Vol. 1, Issue 11   Themes, Competencies, and Behaviors

December 22, 2008 Vol. 1, Issue 12   The Apollo 8 mission, launched on December 21, 1968, marked the first time in history that humans traveled outside the Earth’s orbit.

December 22, 2008 Vol. 1, Issue 12   The nexus of climate change, security, and earth observations was the subject of a recent program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) featuring former NOAA Administrator Vice Admiral Conrad Lautenbacher and Northrup Grumman CEO Dr. Ronald Sugar.

December 22, 2008 Vol. 1, Issue 12   Blue Origin, a private spaceflight company founded by Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos, has announced that it will offer opportunities for scientists to fly payloads on its New Shepard vehicles.