With a new initiative, NASA explores its open-source projects. Image: Artist's concept of KOI-961 star system. NASA/JPL-Caltech
With Code.Nasa.Gov, Agency Steps Up Hunt for Its Open-Source Software Projects
BY Nick Judd | Tuesday, January 17 2012
Not everyone agrees that the Obama White House has done everything around open government that it said it would do. But earlier this month, NASA lengthened the list of things that federal agencies could do. In addition to releasing data, like those that are gleaned from the Kepler space observatory, NASA now has code.nasa.gov, a central repository intended to eventually link out to every last open-source project maintained by people within the U.S. space agency. Read More
History In HD
BY Nick Judd | Wednesday, July 20 2011
Screencap from NASA.gov On the anniversary of the first human landing on the moon, NASA has released partially restored footage from the voyage as HD video. Read More
T-Minus One Minute Until the End of an Era
BY Nick Judd | Friday, July 8 2011
Nasa.gov is live-streaming the last-ever shuttle launch in less than one minute. Read More
Kundra Closes Down Data Centers, Calls for More Cloud
BY Nancy Scola | Thursday, April 28 2011
Photo credit: NASA Not only are the U.S. data centers the federal government owns wasted -- just 7% of the server space housed within them actually gets used -- but they're security threats: with 2,000 of them dotted ... Read More
NASA Charts Its Journey into the Open Government Space
BY Nancy Scola | Monday, April 18 2011
A year after NASA releases its Open Government Plan, the space agency infographics what it's up to in that universe. Read More
NASA and Etsy Get Their Space Crafting On
BY Nancy Scola | Friday, March 18 2011
If you had to pick a federal agency to partner with hipster craft site Etsy, you'd probably pick NASA, what with their Foursquare check-ins from space, frequent tweetups, and plethora of apps. And you'd be right. Over at ... Read More
Why's Foursquare NASA's Latest Frontier?
BY Nancy Scola | Friday, October 22 2010
International Space Station Commander and NASA astronaut Doug Wheelock opened up a new frontier for NASA when, earlier today, he checked in on the location-based game-slash-social-platform Foursquare -- from space! Read More
A Growing Gap Between Gov 2.0's Haves and Have-Nots?
BY Nancy Scola | Thursday, July 30 2009
Last week in Washington DC occurred the Open Government and Innovations Conference (OGI), put on by the Department of Defense and the latest in a steady stream of conferences dedicated to the intersection of government, ... Read More
A New Look at a Walk on the Moon
BY Nancy Scola | Monday, July 20 2009
On this, the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moonwalk, NASA has given over its website homepage to a piece of digital wizardry it is rightly proud of: restored video footage of Neil Armstrong's first step onto the ... Read More
Tweeting...From Space!
BY Nancy Scola | Friday, May 15 2009
Lest you think astronaut Mike Massimino has the most amazing cell-phone plan in the known universe, he's Twittering from space via some sort of special NASA device that sends his 140-characters-or-less back to HQ. From ... Read More