NASA Wants Your Help Finding Asteroids, Tracking Weather

NASA’s recent work has gone far beyond space exploration, with everything from climate change-observing satellites to an iPhone-based chemical sniffer. In other words, volunteers who sign on to contribute to code. NASA can make an impact close to home.

We believe that tomorrow’s space and science systems will be built in the open. This isn’t NASA’s first experiment in open sourcing. The open.NASA project is working on open-source cloud computing, on-demand videos, citizen engagement tools, and more. 

Open sourcing isn’t all about saving cash for the agency. NASA’s founding legislation calls for the agency to "provide for the widest practicable and appropriate dissemination of information." Now, 54 years later, that’s possible in ways that no one could have imagined when Sputnik was circling the planet.