Launch Water Day 2
Quick Recap of Launch Water Day 2:
Innovator Stephen Kennedy Smith: Verticrop. “Large-Scale Vertical Hydroponic Ag System”
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LAUNCH Water Day 1 Recap
After working on the LAUNCH:Water concept for the past year, we finally kicked it off yesterday — along with our cool new Nike-designed website.
Open Participation, Not Just Open Information
In response to a thoughtful comment from Tim846 from last time, I’d like to steer the discussion of open technology towards how to create not only transparency but also stimulate participation in open technologies led by an Open NASA.
Before I get into a specific roadmap, a couple prerequisites need to be installed for successful open participation to happen:
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Heavenly Answers for Earthly Problems
I’m SO excited to share details about NASA’s newest, coolest, never-been-done-before sustainability initiative, LAUNCH:Water.
Open Technology
Greetings. My name is Stephen Steiner. I am new to Open NASA.
I am interested in what we as a society could create by open sourcing all technologies–not just computer code, but chemistry, materials, energy, automation, and more.
As an experiment in this spirit, my colleague (and artist-by-training) Will Walker and I co-founded Aerogel.org, an open-source resource about aerogels (the “original nanotechnology”). The mission of the project is
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The Last Night Shuttle Launch
12 hours before Snowmageddon closed all three Washington DC airports, I bought a seat out on the last plane expected to make it out. My mission: a pilgrimage to KSC to view the last scheduled nighttime Shuttle launch.
It was not my first time seeing a launch. I had driven 14 hours straight with a few carloads of friends from JSC back in the 90’s for my first and I am still moved by the jaw dropping, tear bursting impact it had on me. We were around our cars on the causeway in the heat and when the countdown hit zero we saw the flash of light and the shuttle gracefully clear the tower and begin its ascent into the heavens on a plume of smoke and thousands of human’s combined effort. By the time the sound waves blasted past us three seconds later, I was already in tears, leveled by the extraordinary beauty of what we as a species are capable of.
Centers as Settlements
Discussing the new directions contained in the 2011 budget roll-out with employees, Charlie Bolden announced a new Headquarters office called Misson Support, to be lead by Woodrow Whitlow from NASA Glenn Research Center. Mission Support will bring all NASA facilities and their operations under one umbrella, recognizing the important role these groups play in achieving NASA’s mission. This will allow greater insight into operational challenges, and more strategic investments into creating an integrated NASA workforce.
"After the Storm" by Raymond Cassel, 1st place 2009 NSS Art contest
nasa.gov/open
As @bethbeck mentioned yesterday in her post “Ideas on How to Open NASA? Spill!” –
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Ideas on How to Open NASA? Spill!
Are you someone who knows exactly what it takes to make NASA the best agency possible? Do you doodle ideas on cocktail napkins and mail them to a NASA Center? Do you wake up early in the morning to watch Space Shuttle launches (like this morning’s 4:14 a.m. EST STS-130 launch) or stay up all night for mission coverage of Space Station? Do you wish you could wear a NASA badge and sit in a cubicle somewhere in the bureaucratic maze at a NASA installation?
Have we got a job for you!
Social Media + Open Government
Yesterday, Amiko Kauderer (@amikokauderer), Joel Walker (@joelwalker), James McClellan (@jbmccl) and I (@skytland) had an opportunity to attend the Houston Social Media Club breakfast at the Houston Zoo to talk about NASA’s experiments in social media. I wanted to share the presentation with the openNASA community and also invite you to the Houston Zoo’s next event! So, if you are in Houston on Friday, February 26th, make sure to check out the “Tweets in Space” event at the Houston Zoo to meet some “twittering astronauts”! Here’s some information:
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