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Participants in the APPEL KS International Project Management course pose for a photo at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center as the event draws to a close. Photo Credit: NASA

APPEL Course Focuses on International Collaboration

March 25, 2024 // by Kevin Wilcox

Participants from 8 space agencies share insights on joint projects.

Dr. Nancy Grace Roman records data from a computer display at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, circa 1972. In 1959, she became the first female executive and the first Chief of Astronomy at NASA. Photo Credit: NASA

This Month in NASA History: A Pioneer Begins

March 12, 2024 // by Kevin Wilcox

Nancy Grace Roman, NASA’s first chief of astronomy, blazes a trail for the Hubble Space Telescope decades before launch.

February 2024 INSIGHT Now Available

February 29, 2024 // by INSIGHT Staff

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.

NASA’s Centers contain a wide variety of purpose-built facilities, including this Space Simulation Vacuum Chamber at Glenn Research Center. Photo Credit: NASA

New Cycle of APPEL KS Leadership Program Begins

February 27, 2024 // by Kevin Wilcox

SELP program includes hands-on assignment at different NASA Center, leadership training, and coaching.

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captured this mosaic showing the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter (circled) at its final airfield on Feb. 4, 2024. The helicopter damaged its rotor blades during the landing of its 72nd flight on January 18, 2024. Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS

NASA’s Ingenuity rotorcraft makes final landing on Mars

February 23, 2024 // by Kevin Wilcox

Small helicopter carried Wright Brothers’ fabric far beyond Earth as it pioneered flight on another planet in the solar system.

This detailed, all-sky picture of the infant universe was created from nine years of data gathered by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe. The image reveals 13.77 billion year old temperature fluctuations (shown as color differences) that correspond to the seeds that grew to become the galaxies. Credit: NASA

This Month in NASA History: A Turning Point in Cosmology

February 15, 2024 // by Kevin Wilcox

WMAP mission releases stunning map of the Cosmic Microwave Background, a “baby picture” of the Universe.

Phytoplankton bloom in the Barents Sea captured August 14, 2011. Photo Credit: NASA Goddard

January 2024 INSIGHT Now Available

January 31, 2024 // by INSIGHT Staff

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.