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December 6, 2012 // by Stephen Morton

Bryan O’Connor, former NASA Chief of Safety and Mission Assurance, Mike Ryschkewitsch, NASA Chief Engineer, Amy Edmonson, professor at the Harvard Business School, and Robin Dillon, professor at Georgetown, participate in a panel discussion about their experiences and research related to organizational silence. 0:50 Ed Rogers Introduces the Panel 9:48 Panel Discussion Begins Read More […]

Opening Remarks (Ed Hoffman, Chris Scolese)

November 30, 2012 // by Stephen Morton

Ed Hoffman, NASA Chief Knowledge Officer and Director of the Academy of Program/Project & Engineering Leadership, and Chris Scolese, Goddard Space Flight Center, introduce Goddard Organizational Silence event. There are different forms of silence. Goddard Space Flight Center Director Chris Scolese recalled that when he first became a manager, “They took my ‘engineer’ card away.” […]

Management Lessons of the Moon Program (Andrew Chaikin)

November 30, 2012 // by Stephen Morton

Andrew Chaikin, space author and historian, discussed the role of project management during Apollo during the Organizational Silence event at Goddard Space Flight Center on July 31, 2012. 0:33 Ed Rogers Introduction 2:32 Andrew Chaikin Read More: http://go.nasa.gov/1mJFLnA Learn More about Goddard OCKO: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/about/organizations/OCKO/index.html

The Sun erupted with two prominence eruptions, one after the other over a four-hour period on Nov. 16, 2012. The action was captured in the 304 Angstrom wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light. It seems possible that the disruption to the Sun’s magnetic field might have triggered the second event since they were in relatively close proximity to each other. The expanding particle clouds heading into space do not appear to be Earth-directed.

Message from the Director: The Half-Life of Knowledge

November 29, 2012 // by APPEL News Staff

Vol. 5, Issue 11 Unlike physical elements, it is hard to guess the half-life of knowledge in advance.

CKO Corner: LaRC’s Manjula Ambur

November 29, 2012 // by APPEL News Staff

Vol. 5, Issue 11 Langley Research Center’s Manjula Ambur shares her insights about knowledge management at her center.

$Called the eXtreme Deep Field, or XDF, the photo was assembled by combining 10 years of NASA Hubble Space Telescope photographs taken of a patch of sky at the center of the original Hubble Ultra Deep Field. The XDF is a small fraction of the angular diameter of the full moon. The Hubble Ultra Deep Field is an image of a small area of space in the constellation Fornax, created using Hubble Space Telescope data from 2003 and 2004. The new full-color XDF image is even more sensitive, and contains about 5,500 galaxies even within its smaller field of view. The faintest galaxies are one ten-billionth the brightness of what the human eye can see.$

Academy Brief: New Online APPEL Courses Now Available

November 29, 2012 // by APPEL News Staff

Vol. 5, Issue 11 Two of APPEL’s most popular courses are now available to NASA employees online.