In an effort to spur innovation inside and outside the space industry, NASA is releasing more than 1,000 of its computer codes to the public Thursday through a new open-access software catalog. As far ...
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'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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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,” ...
Forty years after Apollo 11 landed on the moon, NASA open sourced the software code that ran the guidance systems on the lunar module. By that time, the code was little more than a novelty. But in ...
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 ...
Do you, or someone you know, know how to program computers? NASA has a challenging assignment for you. NASA’s aeronautical innovators are sponsoring a competition to reward qualified contenders who ...
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center said it is set to auction an exclusive license to five patents it holds for automated software development on November 11, 2010. NASA said the technology was ...
In an effort to spur innovation inside and outside the space industry, NASA is releasing more than 1,000 of its computer codes to the public Thursday (April 10) through a new open-access software ...
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