The articles, case studies, and other features included here are selected from over thirty years of publications from NASA’s Academy of Program/Project and Engineering Leadership (APPEL) and the NASA Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO) community.  These articles are selected based on their representation of NASA’s critical knowledge, popularity, uniqueness, and general audience interest.  Share your feedback or let us know if there’s an important article we missed by contacting us and referencing “Knowledge Essentials”.

How NASA Learns

• Success, Failure, and NASA Culture by Stephen B. Johnson
• Lessons from Columbia: Building a Knowledge Sharing Culture by Tiffany Smith
• The Toothbrush Hack by Haley Stephenson
• APPEL Course Focuses on International Collaboration by Kevin Wilcox 

Moments in NASA History

• A Space Shuttle Points to the Sky Again by Kevin Wilcox
• NASA’s Ingenuity Rotorcraft Makes Final Landing on Mars by Kevin Wilcox
• Astronauts Make First Untethered Spacewalk by Kevin Wilcox
• Wernher Von Braun: Lessons Taught…And Learned by Bob Ward
• NASA’s Iconic Logotype Began with Shock and Surprise by Kevin Wilcox
• CapCom for Apollo 11 by Kevin Wilcox

Learning through Case Studies

• The Big Dig: Learning from a Mega Project by Virginia Greiman
• Sinking the Unsinkable: Lessons for Leadership by Pedro C. Ribeiro
• Seven Axioms of Good Engineering: Development of a Case Study Based Course for NASA by Roger Forsgren and Anthony Luscher