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Hanging Out with NASA at SXSW Interactive 2014 19 Aug 2013 | 10:28 pm
NASA (and space exploration in general) has had a huge presence at the SXSW Interactive festival for the past few years, and this year is no different. Here is a list of space-related proposals (in no...
A 48-Hour Career: Space Apps By Numbers 6 Aug 2013 | 11:31 pm
When the International Space Apps Challenge wrapped up on the evening of April 21th 2013 in Maui, it had become the largest hackathon in the galaxy. After the event, Space Apps 2013 was seen the world...
The Fragile Oasis Prize Medal Winners 21 Jul 2013 | 06:13 am
We’re excited to share this update from Fragile Oasis, one of open.NASA’s favorite communities. Fragile Oasis is NASA’s grassroots initiative that connects the orbital perspective of astronauts who li...
Hello World! 16 Jul 2013 | 08:46 pm
I am thankful for a lot of things in my life: my awesome family, my amazing (now former) school and the supportive, kind group of friends I am so fortunate to have, to name just a few. There is anothe...
NASA Asteroid Initiative 21 Jun 2013 | 12:41 am
On Tuesday, June 18, NASA proudly announced a Grand Challenge “to find all asteroid threats to human populations and know what to do about them” at the Asteroid Initiative Industry and Partner Day in ...
Open Source Summit v3.0: Communties 18 Jun 2013 | 11:07 pm
Over the past few years, we have been working hard at NASA to modernize the way we approach software development. Open Source is a critical component to our strategy. In 2011, we started a conversatio...
Four weeks to change my universe. 16 Jun 2013 | 12:58 am
I’m here writing for NASA because of an internship program for my high school. That program ends today, so I’ll be talking about my time here – telling my own story for once, as it were. Anyways, as ...
Farewell 14 Jun 2013 | 08:21 pm
For the past three and a half years, I have called NASA home. I started here in 2010, as an intern in the Outreach Program in the Space Operations Mission Directorate. Beth Beck, my manager, gave me a...
Extreme Greenhouse 11 Jun 2013 | 01:29 am
Greek spinach pie from spinach grown on Mars? Talk about local flavor. At Space Apps Athens, it wasn’t such a far-off idea. Themis Karafasoulis of Hackerspace of Athens says, “When we found out that ...
Greener Cities for Greener Living 7 Jun 2013 | 03:22 am
I can confess that I have spent many an hour playing with Google Earth. I’ll descend into street view and roam around places I’ve never been, or, more often than not, prowl the streets of my hometown...
