Ali Llewellyn

OpenGov Community Advocate @ Johnson Space Center

Ali is a teacher and adventurer at heart, committed to new ways to get explorers of all ages excited about space. She is intrigued by the unknown, and passionate about every way we can learn more and go further. Ali has almost 5 years of experience at NASA, developing better and more open business processes, telling stories about NASA’s exciting life sciences work, bridging the gap between generations in the workforce on use of technology, and co-leading an international education outreach pilot project encouraging students to “train like an astronaut.” She has a bachelor’s degree in classics from the University of Texas and studied cross-cultural communication and people movements in graduate school.

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Latest Posts by Llewellyn

Curiosity is coming!

| NASA's next mission to Mars. I'm currently en route to the Red Planet. Arrival anticipated August 5, 2012.

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ESA’s App Camp

| This article is cross-posted from ESA’s Living Planet Program blog here. For more information about the App Camp, go to the main page here.  This week’s ESA App Camp didn’t see canoeing or campfires. Developers worked diligently despite the Mediterranean heat to create applications for mobile phones that bring Earth observation and GMES services to [...]

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MARS FORUM

| "Mars is there, waiting to be reached." – Buzz Aldrin (NASA Apollo Astronaut)

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Nebula, NASA, and OpenStack

|  This post by Ray O’Brien (Former Nebula Project Manager, NASA Ames Research Center CIO, Acting) was originally posted to nebula.nasa.gov. The Nebula Cloud Computing Platform was the Flagship Initiative for NASA’s first Open Government Plan, and much has been learned, accomplished, and created over the course of this project. Thanks to the team who worked so hard [...]

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NASA Challenges featured at Random Hacks of Kindness

| One of the key elements of the Random Hacks of Kindness Sustainability Project announced earlier this year was to create a featured problem set for each RHoK event going forward that provides a series of highly curated, well-defined problems that have clear sponsors and clear paths to sustained impact. Stay on top of the latest [...]

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Bringing Home the Magic of Space

| The mission of the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) is to maximize use of this unparalleled platform for innovation, which can benefit all humankind and inspire a new generation to look to the stars. What can you imagine? How are you inspired by those who are living and working in space? [...]

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Venus Transit

| The Transit of Venus anticipated on June 5, 2012, is among the rarest astronomical phenomena and won't happen again until the year 2117.

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