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This concept image shows an astronaut preparing to take samples from the captured asteroid after it has been relocated to a stable orbit in the Earth-moon system. Hundreds of rings are affixed to the asteroid capture bag, helping the astronaut carefully navigate the surface.
Asteroid Initiative Opportunities Forum

NASA is soliciting ideas that will contribute to NASA’s asteroid redirect mission, including concept ideas for an alternate asteroid capture system, rendezvous sensor systems, secondary payloads, feasibility studies on adapting commercial spacecraft buses, and commercial and international partnership opportunities for the mission.

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NASA Knowledge Community Meeting
NASA Community Tackles Key Challenges

Chief Knowledge Officers (CKO) and knowledge points of contact from across NASA will meet at Johnson Space Center on April 7 through April 9, 2014 to address the agency’s key priorities related to knowledge services.

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Suggest a Story to APPEL

Have an interesting project management or engineering story? Share it with APPEL.

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JPL Knowledge Management Newsletter - March Issue
JPL Knowledge Management Newsletter – March 2014

JPL’s Chief Knowledge Officer recently announced their first issue of the JPL Knowledge Management Newsletter.

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Attired in training versions of their shuttle launch and entry suits, these seven astronauts take a break from training to pose for the STS-119 crew portrait. From the right (front row) are NASA astronauts Lee Archambault, commander, and Tony Antonelli, pilot. From the left (back row) are NASA astronauts Joseph Acaba, John Phillips, Steve Swanson, Richard Arnold and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata, all mission specialists. Wakata is scheduled to join Expedition 18 as flight engineer after launching to the International Space Station on STS-119.
Message from the CKO: A Tale of Two Shuttles

Five years ago, NASA launched the space shuttle Discovery on STS-119 on March 15, 2009.

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The hand-built Kennedy Space Center fixed-wing aircraft, Genesis, flying over the test range the day before the competition. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center / Adam Kimberlin
Rocket U UAS Competition Series: Going Forward

The Rocket U Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Competition may have come to a close, but not to an end. 

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Les Boatright (left) and Mike Knutson (right) prepare Kennedy Space Center’s Genesis aircraft for launch.
Rocket U UAS Competition Series: Team Kennedy

With an aircraft already in production and the groundwork underway for test flights, the Kennedy Space Center Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) team found themselves in a race against time to reach competition day.

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International Space Apps Challenge will take place on April 12 – 13, 2014.
International Space Apps Challenge: Interview with Beth Beck

NASA’s global mass collaboration event is back—and it’s aiming to leverage space data in new and interesting ways.

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The WIRE telescope inside the cryostat assembly.
This Month in NASA History: Learning from WIRE

Fifteen years ago this month, the Wide-field Infrared Explorer’s (WIRE) primary mission came to an abrupt end.

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