| WASHINGTON — NASA and government agencies worldwide will host the second International Space Apps Challenge on April 20-21, with events across all seven continents and in space. Participants are encouraged to develop mobile apps, software and hardware, data visualization, and platform solutions that could contribute to space exploration missions and help improve life on Earth. [...]
| In true startup fashion, NASA’s open government team has mastered the art of the government “pivot.” Serving as an internal innovation engine is a key function that could play a defining role in helping the agency realize its impact to Americans beyond just space.
| If you are planning to attend the Interactive portion of South by Southwest this year in Austin we want to extend an invitation for you to join the entire space community at a space meetup/social on on Sunday March 10th at 1:30pm at the Meet Up Pavilion in the Austin Convention Center. Since we have such a strong [...]
| The past two days have been a whirlwind of excitement as people around America discover National Day of Civic Hacking and come forward to help out. The sheer volume of interest has given me cause to step back and think about the impact and potential behind the initiative. Our Country faces great challenges as we [...]
| Many of us now working at NASA reflect on our elementary school days, when we were first inspired by the space program. We saw these amazing achievements and thought, quite accurately, that there was cutting-edge technology at work, being developed by brilliant engineers. Oh, how we longed to work alongside and someday become one of [...]
| The International Space Apps Challenge team has been hard at work with the preparations for the upcoming global event in April. We’re building collaborations, reviewing challenges, and preparing for the largest exploration-focused mass collaboration that the world has ever seen. One of the most frequent questions we get for Space Apps is “where will it be [...]
| On the social media platform Reddit, notable people often hold events called Ask Me Anything (AMA) where users are invited to ask anything they wish. They are the experts… and “redditors” have direct access to discuss, engage and learn from these celebrities, leaders and notable citizens. NASA astronaut and openNASA team member Ron Garan subverted [...]
