What is NASA doing with Big Data today?

| In the time it took you to read this sentence, NASA gathered approximately 1.73 gigabytes of data from our nearly 100 currently active missions! We do this every hour, every day, every year – and the collection rate is growing exponentially. Handling, storing, and managing this data is a massive challenge. Our data is one [...]

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NASA Tournament Lab’s Big Data Challenge

| NASA, the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy’s Office of Science announced on Wednesday the launch of the Big Data Challenge, a series of competitions hosted through the NASA Tournament Lab (NTL). The Big Data Challenge series will apply the process of open innovation to conceptualizing new and novel approaches to using “big [...]

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Thoughts on Makers at NASA

| Makers explore, reach into the unknown, and strive to bring something back that makes it worth the trip. Throughout NASA’s history, the exploration culture is easy to see – the Apollo Program, International Space Station, the Mars Science Laboratory and Curiosity’s 7 minutes of terror – things that bring technology and knowledge back for humanity [...]

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The Open API Universe at NASA

| One way that NASA data can be made more available online is through an “application programming interface” or API. While the name may be intimidating, you probably use APIs every day. APIs bring us real-time news, weather, and photosharing.

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Innovation as Curiosity

| “We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” Walt Disney

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Life After Space Apps: Hacking for Hunger

| Because as we learned from the International Space Challenge & RHoK; your code, your hacks and your solutions have the potential to facilitate a community of users & contributors that endure well beyond one codeathon.

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Moonshot

| “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard…”

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NASA is nominated for a Makey!

| "For lifting so many young eyes upward, toward the stars, and for doing so much to keep them there, we are proud to welcome NASA to the running for the 2012 Makey Awards."

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