NextGov (6/25, Brewin, 2K) reports NASA, well known as an innovator, announced the Open NASA Earth Exchange (OpenNEX) challenges, a two-phased project that asks the public to come up with new ways to make use of the extensive datasets its Earth science satellites capture. Rama Nemani, principal scientist for the NEX project at the Ames Research Center, said, These challenges allow citizen-scientists to realize the value of NASA data assets and offers NASA new ideas on how to share and use that data. According to the article, another benefit of the project is that it tackles policy mandates on big data, open data and climate data from the Obama administration. Overall, the goal of OpenNEXis to maximize the use of this data, according to Tsengar Lee, program manager in the Earth Science Division of the Science Mission Directorate, who said, The expectation was if you build the data, they will come, but that was not the case.
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NASA astronaut and educator Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger has departed the agency for other pursuits.
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NASA is awarding $11.25 million to 15 colleges and universities across the United States to conduct basic research and technology development in areas including climate change, nanotechnology, astrophysics, aviation and other areas relevant to the agency’s missions.
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NASA is launching two challenges to give the public an opportunity to create innovative ways to use data from the agency’s Earth science satellites.
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NASA will take visitors into space then bring them down to Earth in an exhibit at this week’s NASCAR races at the Kentucky Speedway.
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Local students and educators will gather at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center in San Diego at 10:25 a.m. PDT (1:25 p.m. EDT) Wednesday, June 25, to speak with NASA astronauts Steve Swanson and Reid Wiseman, currently orbiting Earth aboard the International Space Station.
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Thirty-two undergraduate college students are immersed in NASA’s Earth Science research during the 2014 Student Airborne Research Program.
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“NASA on the Square” will be a fun “open house” on Saturday, June 21, showcasing Marshall Space Flight Center’s work on the Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft.
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Rising high school seniors from across Virginia will plan a simulated mission to Mars at NASA’s Langley Research Center.
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Thirty-two undergraduate college students are immersed in NASA’s Earth Science research during the 2014 Student Airborne Research Program.
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