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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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CNN reporter Christine Romans and panelists during a forum on the importance of engineering talent hosted by the National Academy of Engineering in October 2013.
Attracting and Cultivating Engineering Talent: Summary of a Forum

The key to global engineering leadership and innovation is talent—and there is no guarantee that the United States will remain the default leader, according to panelists from a National Academy of Engineering forum.

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Message from the CKO: Introducing NASA's Knowledge Policy
Message from the CKO: Introducing NASA’s Knowledge Policy

I used to be a policy skeptic. I often wondered if it just created another layer of bureaucracy?

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A tiny representation of the sun sneaks through between a truss-based radiator panel and a primary solar array panel on the Earth-orbiting International Space Station in this photograph taken by one of the Expedition 38 crew members on Jan. 2, 2014. Clouds over Earth and the blackness of space share the background scene.
The Metronome Hack

By Haley Stephenson A smartphone app set the tempo for a fix to bring the International Space Station (ISS) back online after a thermal system failed.

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