One small step: NASA launches open source portal, aims to open more code
In a statement on the open.NASA blog, the space agency announced on Wednesday the launch of a new code.nasa.gov website that will become a portal for NASA's open source software development activities. In its current form, it ho...
LROC Wide Angle Camera Captures The Moon In A New Light
Okay, so we’re definitely space junkies that like to bring you the the word on cool, “out of this world” news outside of our atmosphere. The closest orb of interest? The moon. And we’ve been monitoring everything the Lunar Recon...
Is this the geekiest-freakiest Halloween costume yet?
I don’t know about you, but this is one freakily awesome Halloween costume. If you have a pair of iPad 2s lying around, you could put them to work and create an illusion of a huge hole in your torso. How? Dead simple, says one Mark Rober, a NASA employee. Just strap one iPad to...
iPads, Angry Birds to travel to International Space Station
iPods and iPhones (in Airplane Mode? Spaceship mode?) have traveled to the International Space Station (ISS) via American and Russian launch vehicles. Now you can add the iPad to the list of iDevices that have left the planet.
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Honoring World Space Week | Be curious. Be inspiring.
53 years ago the Space Age began, launching curious minds into a celebration of discovery. Yesterday marked the 54th launch anniversary of Sputnik 1, the satellite that drew the starting line for humanity’s race into space. Now a week long celebr...
Sustainable rocketry: SpaceX to cut launch costs with reusable rocket
Privately-held SpaceX will attempt to build a re-usable rocket, founder Elon Musk announced last week. The effort marks a bold and refreshing attempt to change the technology and economics of reaching space.
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Look Out!!! Incoming Satellite!
For those of you not old enough to remember Skylab and were somewhat disappointed with Mir’s rather “safe” descent into the South Pacific, we’ve got another game of “Where’s the Satellite Debris Going to Land?” ready to play today. Accord...
NASA Makes New Shuttle Program Artifacts Available
A little more than a month ago, the final landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis marked the end of the Space Shuttle program. We followed the story pretty closely here on the OWC Blog, mostly in relation to our friends over at The Last Shuttle Project. Well...
Daily iPad App: NASA Visualization Explorer
The NASA Visualization app is your window into the world of NASA research. The app presents the latest NASA research news in an easy-to-digest format. Each article is written for the lay person and amateur scientist with images and video to comple...
Photos from the End
Last week saw the end of the landing of the final Space Shuttle mission, bringing to close an era in space exploration. We’ve followed this story (and various tangents) for the better part of a year. In the process, we’ve sponsored and have made fr...
That’s Outta This World
One of the pictures of the day over at nasa.gov has piqued our space imaginations over here at OWC. The picture shows a very cool pic of the Aurora Australis from space, similar to the Northern Lights known in the northern hemisphere. Get the fu...
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft to visit giant asteroid this weekend
A spacecraft launched in 2007 will soon slide into orbit around Vesta, the solar system’s second-heaviest asteroid.
Located 117 million miles from Earth, Vesta has a circumference of 329 miles. When NASA’...
