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April 2025 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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Podcast episode graphic showing the title of the podcast on the left third of the image. The rest of the graphic is an illustration of the EZIE mission, showing one of the three suitcase-sized satellites orbiting above Earth's green aurorae.
Podcast Episode 152: EZIE Does It

What can the auroras tell us about our planet’s relationship with the Sun? NASA’s EZIE mission looks into it. 

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Illustration of three small satellites scanning Earth's aurorae from above. The aurora is depicted as green. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben
EPISODE 152: EZIE DOES IT

What can the auroras tell us about our planet’s relationship with the Sun? NASA’s EZIE mission looks into it.

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Podcast episode graphic showing the name of the podcast Small Steps Giant Leaps on the left, plus a computer-generated image of Earth. Orbital paths in different colors surround the planet. Credit: NASA
Podcast Episode 151: Designing Missions

NASA’s design labs are where engineers develop concepts for missions and ideas for scientific instruments.

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Illustration of Earth with depictions of different orbital paths in several different primary colors.
EPISODE 151: DESIGNING MISSIONS

NASA’s design labs are where engineers develop mission concepts and ideas for scientific instruments.

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Illustration showing a flying vehicle, resembling a car with wings and propellers, flying over a cityscape. White text above it shows the episode title and on the left quarter of the image is the podcast title, graphic which features an astronaut leaping from the Moon to Mars, and text that reads Listen Now. Credit: NASA
Podcast Episode 150: Urban Air Taxis

Flying air taxis? NASA is working on it with the Air Mobility Pathfinders Project.

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March 2025 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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Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander, seen here encapsulated inside a SpaceX rocket fairing before launch, landed on the Moon on March 2, and returned high-definition images of the lunar surface, an eclipse, and a lunar sunset. The images could help find the cause of an unusual glow observed by NASA’s Apollo astronauts. Credit: SpaceX
Scientists Examine New Data on Unusual Glow

CLPS Blue Ghost mission delivers high-definition images of sunset from the lunar surface.

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Podcast Episode 149: Spacecraft Thermal Blankets

Every spacecraft needs a good blanket — one that can withstand the extreme cold, the Sun’s intense radiation, and impacts from micrometeoroids. At NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Paula Cain is one of the skilled hands behind these essential layers of protection.

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