| Your awareness of the freedoms and responsibilities these policies support will help us continue to pursue new knowledge, fuel wonder, and make groundbreaking discoveries about the universe and our place in it.
| The Open Government Initiative is excited to invite Syracuse University industrial and interaction design student Katy Jeremko to share about the recent design charrette that Syracuse held in advance of the International Space Apps Challenge. This interactive event offered university students an opportunity to dialogue about space data while helping to shape the proposed challenges and [...]
| The 5th Global Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) event took place this weekend in 34 cities around the world, with close to 2,000 developers “hacking for humanity.” RHoK is a collaboration between NASA, Google, Microsoft, HP, Yahoo and Worldbank. With this weekend’s events, RHoK has now reached a total 99 hackathons worldwide and has engaged [...]
| I recently had a chance to chat with Matt Ritsko, the recent winner of the President’s SAVE Award. The SAVE Award, which stands for Securing Americans Value and Efficiency, was launched in 2009 by President Obama. The award seeks ideas from federal employees to make government more effective and efficient and ensure taxpayer dollars are spent wisely. Matt is a Financial Manager on the Gravity Extreme Magnetism SMEX (GEMS) Flight Project. NASA has a long heritage of....
| Haley Stephenson’s excellent article first appeared in the October issue of NASA’s ASK the Academy newsletter, found here. We are cross-posting it here as a great example of the intersection of engineering and openness. You can contact Haley directly here. All images are courtesy of Bloodhound SSC project. Batman, eat your heart out. From [...]
| Our scientists are innovating all the time on the problems and risks that face human spaceflight. Recently, the Water and Food Analytical laboratory used “teamwork, innovative thought, and old-fashioned scientific detective work” to solve the issue of an increase in total organic carbon (TOC) in the water screened on-orbit. We understand about using new methods [...]
| The Open Government Initiative was excited to invite KSC’s David Miranda and Ariel Pavlick to share about how they are increasing the awesome at their center with transparency, participation, and collaboration. “Some would say that those struggles are all over, that all the horizons have been explored, that all the battles have been [...]
| NASA Forward Maker Camp has been an effective experiment in new ways to engage the workforce in fast, hyper local projects that advance NASA’s mission and vision. The event provides a chance to pursue projects of value to the NASA mission that might not normally be done and also to collaborate with others from around the agency [...]
| Recently, some talented folks from Valador co-located with the Open Government Team in Houston for a co-working week. In only a few days, we accomplished a lot: discussed the future of our space agency, infused different lines of thinking into a variety of projects we were individually assigned, screened content for the upcoming NASA IT [...]
