In an effort to make the government less opaque, the White House has directed federal agencies to share their software. According to Wired, the federal government is the “country’s largest creator of ...

If you're a computer programmer with some time on your hands, NASA needs you! The agency said it wants to streamline a piece of software used for aviation research and run on one of the world's most ...

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If you'd like to work on software projects that might one day send your code to Mars or on a deep space mission, NASA has some code for you to hack on. The Space Agency recently unveiled a new website ...

Back in the 1980s, I was writing open-source programs for NASA. Oh, we didn't call it open source then. Open source as a term wouldn't exist until 1998. All the code we produced was “free software,” ...

Everyone has probably day-dreamed of launching a space-ship from their backyard at some point. Well, now that NASA plans to release over a thousand of its software systems into the public domain, your ...

Former NASA intern Chris Garry uploaded an old 1960 programming code for the Apollo missions to GitHub last July 7 and it’s like looking into a time capsule. GitHub is the code-sharing site where ...

NASA this weekend is pulling together more than 10,000 developers, scientists, students and entrepreneurs across 62 countries for a code-a-thon aimed at building technology for space exploration.

NASA’s two Voyager spacecraft have spent almost half a century traveling through distant space. Voyager 1, in particular, which is currently floating past the generally-defined edge of the solar ...

Nerds and future billionaires rejoice: codes used on NASA's rockets are now free and legal to download. For the second year in a row, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has released its ...