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Screenshot of Terry O'Malley speaking and gesturing with his hand during his interview. Credit: NASA

Critical Knowledge inSight: Challenges of Out-of-House Project Work

November 28, 2022 // by INSIGHT Staff

Out-of-house work brings some specific challenges for a NASA project manager.

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As a momentous year at NASA draws to a close, some members of the technical workforce—many with decades of specialized experience—are considering a personal milestone: retirement. Credit: NASA

Transition to New Year Often Brings Retirements

November 23, 2022 // by INSIGHT Staff

APPEL KS offers tools, tips for knowledge capture and transfer.

This is one of a series of photos taken by the Expedition 34 crew members aboard the International Space Station during the March 3, 2013 approach, capture and docking of the SpaceX Dragon. Credit: NASA

Spotlight on Lessons Learned: Lessons Learned from NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) Program

November 21, 2022 // by INSIGHT Staff

NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) Program provides a starting point for formulation, design, management, and implementation of future public-private capability development partnerships.

Podcast Episode 97: Mars InSight

November 17, 2022 // by INSIGHT Staff

NASA Mars InSight Lander Principal Investigator Bruce Banerdt discusses the first mission dedicated to studying the deep interior of Mars.

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A meteoroid slammed into the surface of Mars on December 24, 2021, leaving this massive crater and ejecting boulders of water ice across a wide area. In the months that followed, two NASA teams pieced together what the impact was and what it reveals about the planet’s crust. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

Large Impact on Mars Is Rare Opportunity

November 10, 2022 // by Kevin Wilcox

Meteoroid leaves massive crater, ejects boulders of ice.

Mariner 4 was the first spacecraft to take close-up photographs of another planet. Credit: NASA

This Month in NASA History: Mariner 4 Launches

November 3, 2022 // by Kevin Wilcox

Mission replaces wild ideas about Mars with the first stark images of the surface.

NASA’s X-57 ‘Maxwell’ is the agency’s first all-electric experimental aircraft, or X-plane, and is NASA’s first crewed X-plane in two decades. This is an illustration of this plane flying above a city. Credit: NASA

Podcast Episode 96: Airworthiness

November 2, 2022 // by INSIGHT Staff

NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center Chief Engineer CJ Bixby discusses what it takes to achieve airworthiness.

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Active regions on the sun combined to look something like a jack-o-lantern’s face on Oct. 8, 2014. The active regions appear brighter because those are areas that emit more light and energy — markers of an intense and complex set of magnetic fields hovering in the sun’s atmosphere, the corona. This image blends together two sets of wavelengths at 171 and 193 angstroms, typically colorized in gold and yellow, to create a particularly Halloween-like appearance. This image is a blend of 171 and 193 angstrom light as captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory. Credit: NASA/GSFC/SDO

October 2022 INSIGHT Now Available

October 31, 2022 // by INSIGHT Staff

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

An illustration of the Europa Clipper flying in space with Jupiter's moon Europa in the background. Credit: NASA

Spotlight on Lessons Learned: Tube Stub Weld Design Change

October 28, 2022 // by INSIGHT Staff

Strong lines of communication between designers and analysts must be maintained to ensure fidelity of analysis results as flight component configurations evolve.