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2009

NASA NEBULA Services (via) NASA’s new NEBULA cloud computing platform appears to be built entirely on open source infrastructure, including Python, Django, Fabric, Eucalyptus, RabbitMQ, Trac and Solr.

# 28th July 2009, 12:10 pm / fabric, eucalyptus, nasa, django, open-source, cloud-computing, nebula, python, rabbitmq, solr, trac

2008

Preparing to rescue Hubble. The Big Picture has pictures of the preparations for next month’s Space Shuttle Atlantis mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope for the last time, including a photo of astronauts practicing underwater.

# 1st September 2008, 1:54 pm / space, hubblespacetelescope, spaceshuttle, nasa, thebigpicture, photography

A convention once saw, for example, that I had worked at NASA, and put me on a panel about the future of space exploration.  I felt a little out-of-place, given that my main NASA achievement was that I once lassoed a robot with cat-6 cable and had it pull me around the hallways charioteer-style.

— Randall Munroe

# 22nd August 2008, 8:28 am / xkcd, nasa, randallmunroe

Twitter / MarsPhoenix. NASA’s Mars Phoenix lander, due to land on the planet today, has a Twitter account. Bio: “I dig Mars!”.

# 25th May 2008, 7:41 pm / marsphoenix, mars, nasa, twitter

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