INSIGHT: July 2023 | APPEL Knowledge Services

Spotlight on Lessons Learned: Orbital Space Plane – Engineers as Smart Buyers

July 31, 2023 // by INSIGHT Staff

Good acquisition management emphasizes not only what – but how – to buy.

NASA studies Earth with a fleet of more than two dozen satellite missions that gather data about land masses, ice prevalence, atmospheric conditions, oceans, and more. Image Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

NASA Focuses on Value of Climate Work

July 27, 2023 // by Kevin Wilcox

Difficult summer highlights data NASA collects on Earth’s climate.

Screenshot of Cynthia Simmons speaking during her interview. Photo Credit: NASA

Critical Knowledge inSight: Decisive and Rational Decision-Making for Project Managers

July 24, 2023 // by INSIGHT Staff

A project manager needs to adapt to changing circumstances that arise during their project.

In the early 1930s, astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky studied the Coma Cluster—shown here in an image obtained by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory—and discovered a puzzling inconsistency that led him to theorize the presence of dark matter. Photo Credit: NASA

Missions Focus on Dark Matter, Dark Energy

July 21, 2023 // by Kevin Wilcox

New telescopes designed to address pressing mysteries in astrophysics.

Within days of the launch, Landsat 1 acquired an image of an astounding 81,000-acre fire burning in isolated, central Alaska. For the first time ever, scientists and resource management officials were able to see the full extent of damage from a fire in a single image while it was still burning. Photo Credit: NASA/USGS

This Month in NASA History: A Closer Look at Earth

July 14, 2023 // by Kevin Wilcox

Landsat 1 demonstrated the value of multispectral scanner technology.