Change the world with 5 simple steps

April 12, 2013 | Crafting our world sounds like a lot of hard work and nearly impossible for one person. Well, guess what? The 2nd round of International Space Apps Challenge is here to give you the opportunity to make a difference in your community and around the world. By working together with similarly concerned citizens from across the [...]

Life After Space Apps: Hacking for Hunger

September 13, 2012 | Because as we learned from the International Space Challenge & RHoK; your code, your hacks and your solutions have the potential to facilitate a community of users & contributors that endure well beyond one codeathon.

#BeyondWaste

July 16, 2012 | The ultimate goal of LAUNCH is a sustainable future for planet Earth and her citizens.

The power of hackathons in government

June 29, 2012 | "These citizen-led experiments demonstrate the potential for digital tools to change our lives using creative new models and datasets."

From the Ground Up

June 11, 2012 | Katy Jeremko shares on her first week at the NASA Open Government Initiative.

Space Apps: Lessons in Global Innovation

June 1, 2012 | “If you put that data out to a diverse community, it enables [NASA] to have numerous and distributed backup teams around the world digging into the data, figuring out what sort of valuable information can come from it and what can be done with it."

Digital Astronaut Project

May 25, 2012 | Conducting human missions beyond low-Earth orbit to destinations such as asteroids and Mars will require substantial work to ensure the well-being of the crew. These new operational conditions, which will include long periods in microgravity, will pose health risks that are currently not well understood and perhaps unanticipated. Developing and applying advanced tools to predict, assess, and mitigate potential hazards to astronaut health is critical.

Preliminary Results from the International Space Apps Challenge

April 24, 2012 | 111 orgs, 25 cities, 17 countries, 2,083 pple, 71 challenges, 100+ solutions in 48 hours. This weekend, NASA successfully fulfilled a commitment on behalf of the United States as part of the Open Government Partnership Domestic Action Plan. The stated goal of the event, per the US Action Plan, was to “promote innovation through international collaboration“. Space exploration [...]

The Space to Collaborate, the Space to Share

March 28, 2012 | As NASA quickly approaches a workforce transformation, a movement has surfaced to not only rethink how the agency shares what it knows, but where.

NASA Joins Yahoo for ‘Flight Readiness Review’ of Space Apps Challenges

March 23, 2012 | [This is] a rather large task, and so we enlisted the help of some very dedicated Yahoos. (Yes, Yahoos.)

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