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The International Space Station as seen from Atlantis during STS-135, the final mission in the 30-year space shuttle program. Credit: NASA
This Month in NASA History: STS-135 Ends Shuttle Era
July 11, 2025 // by

A small crew and a large cargo of food, supplies, and spare parts mark the last time a space shuttle docked with the International Space Station.

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June 2025 INSIGHT Now Available
June 30, 2025 // by

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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NASA aerospace engineer John Houbolt explains Lunar Orbital Rendezvous at a blackboard that illustrates the escape weights of the proposal. Credit: NASA
The Science Behind Managing Stress in High-Stakes Conversations
June 26, 2025 // by

Understanding how pressure impacts performance can yield better decisions.

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Astronauts Thomas Stafford (right) and Eugene Cernan wave to the crowd aboard the aircraft carrier USS Wasp as they emerge from their Gemini-IX-A capsule on June 6, 1966. John C. Stonesifer (far right), with the Manned Spacecraft Center’s Landing and Recovery Division, was onboard to greet the astronauts. Credit: NASA
This Month in NASA History: Gemini IX-A Overcomes
June 13, 2025 // by

Astronauts struggled with EVA unit and docking target during three-day mission overshadowed by pre-launch accident.

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This artist's illustration shows the sky crane maneuver that delivered NASA's Curiosity rover to the surface of Mars in 2012, concluding what is known as the “seven minutes of terror”—the nail-biting descent through the thin Martian atmosphere. Credit: NASA
NASA’s Robust Risk Management Approach Enables Engineers to Address Challenges
June 2, 2025 // by

Continuous, integrated risk management process enables NASA to develop missions with complex, state-of-the-art engineering systems designed to achieve ambitious science objectives. 

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SPHEREx, an anagram for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer, will create a map of the cosmos like no other. Using a technique called spectroscopy to image the entire sky in 102 wavelengths of infrared light, SPHEREx will gather information about the composition of and distance to millions of galaxies and stars. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/BAE Systems
May 2025 INSIGHT Now Available
May 30, 2025 // by

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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These dark streaks, also known as "slope streaks," are in an area of Mars known as Acheron Fossae. The source of these features is a topic of a recent machine learning research project. Credit: NASA
New Study Uses AI to Examine Dark Streaks on Mars
May 28, 2025 // by

Researchers cross-check curious features with temperature, geological features, and wind speed data to check key theory. 

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An artist's concept of NASA's Parker Solar Probe. Credit: NASA
Parker Solar Probe Making Closest Passes to the Sun
May 23, 2025 // by

Team wins prestigious award for mission that has rewritten scientific understanding of solar processes. 

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This photograph of Skylab, taken by the final crew to live and work there, shows the parasol sunshade that was deployed by the first crew to protect the orbiting workshop from the Sun and lower the internal temperature. Credit: NASA
This Month in NASA History: Skylab Takes Shape
May 9, 2025 // by

Debates about what would follow the Moon landing lead to the development of NASA’s first space station.

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