The NASA CIO OpenNASA Website Has Expired Keith’s update: It has been 3 weeks since this post and not much has changed – except that the page was supposedly updated on 2 April 2021 (but shows a responsible NASA official who retired several years ago). And if you go to the Datanauts link you get a broken link error “Not Found The requested URL /explore/datanauts/ was not found on this […]

Keith’s note: The NASA Office of the Chief Information Officer is charged with lots of things and has dabbled over the years in “Open Government” – something that the Obama Administration championed and the Trump people ignored. There is a website called OpenNASA that is supposed to be a focal point for NASA’s engagement in Open Government. When you click on the NASA Open Government Plan (the “most recent” report […]

Crowdsourcing Science with Zooniverse and NASA at the NEEMO-15 Underwater Asteroid Mission “Analyzing the vast amount of data that NASA brings back from its missions is an enormous task. In order to improve collaboration internally, as well as engage citizens in NASA’s mission, the Open Government team is experimenting with different ways to process mission data quickly. The NASA OpenGov team has enlisted the help of established NASA partners Zooniverse […]