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iPads, Angry Birds to travel to International Space Station

by Mel Martin (Oct 26th, 2011)

iPods and iPhones (in Airplane Mode? Spaceship mode?) have traveled to the International Space Station (ISS) via American and Russian launch vehicles. Now you can add the iPad to the list of iDevices that have left the planet. That's the word from Collect Space, which reports that 2 iPads will ...

Daily iPad App: NASA Visualization Explorer

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 8th, 2011)

The NASA Visualization app is your window into the world of NASA research. The app presents the latest NASA research news in an easy-to-digest format. Each article is written for the lay person and amateur scientist with images and video to complement the writing. Topics range from space-based ...

5 apps for the armchair astronaut & the final Space Shuttle launch

by Lisa Hoover (Jul 8th, 2011)

Unless you've been living under a rock lately, you know that today's launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis, mission STS-135, signals the end of the shuttle program as we know it and the closing of a chapter in American human spaceflight. Weather and ten trillion other mechanical considerations ...

Two iPhones to fly into space on last shuttle mission

by Dave Caolo (Jun 9th, 2011)

The space shuttle Atlantis' final mission into space on July 8, 2011 will also mark a first. Specifically, the first time an iPhone has entered outer space. Two in fact, meant to carry out specially-designed experiments. The iPhone 4s will be running an app called SpaceLab for iOS, designed by ...

SPB TV brings streaming TV to the iPhone and iPad, if you aren't too picky

by Mel Martin (Nov 17th, 2010)

SPB TV Free is a little app that gives you more than 100 free TV channels for your iOS device. You get channels from 17 countries, including a few in the US. The only problem? You may not be interested in the television shows the app makes available. There are English language broadcasts from NHK in ...

Highest-resolution Earth photo looks familiar for a reason

by Dave Caolo (Mar 5th, 2010)

Last month, Gizmodo posted an incredible image from NASA: The most accurate, highest-resolution photo of Earth taken to date. It's stunning, in all of its 2048 x 2048 pixel glory. In fact, there are two images: One showing the Americas and one showing Europe. Both make a great desktop image. ...

A new accessory for your iPhone: a NASA-developed chemical sensor

by Steven Sande (Nov 13th, 2009)

What's better than a handful of sensors for determining if some hostile enemy has set off chemical weapons in a city? How about hundreds of thousands or millions of sensors? If research being done by NASA Ames Research Center under the Cell-All program in the US Department of Homeland Security's ...

Space geeks love MacBook Pros

by Steven Sande (Oct 27th, 2009)

Like a lot of my fellow space geeks, I was watching the live feed from Spaceflight Now this morning for the launch of the Ares 1-X test vehicle. Unfortunately, the launch was scrubbed, but I was happy to see that the three guys doing the coverage this morning were all using MacBook Pros. The ...

Failure is not an option: the official NASA iPhone app is here

by Steven Sande (Oct 24th, 2009)

There are a lot of space geeks out there. You know the type; they wake up in the early hours of the morning to watch launch coverage or live feeds from the International Space Station, they follow NASA astronauts on Twitter, and they're married to people in the space biz. Oh, wait -- that's me! ...

iPods rock the Space Shuttle

by Alberto Escarlate (Mar 15th, 2008)

Update 11/16/2008: Welcome Digg visitors. While there may be iPods on the current STS-126 mission, these photos & the blog post are actually from the March 2008 mission. Eagle-eyed reader Walker was perusing hi-res photos of the Space Shuttle Endeavour (which is circling the planet at this ...

Mars24

by Scott McNulty (Mar 31st, 2006)

If you like Mars, Nasa has the application for you. Mars24 tracks the time of day for numerous locations on Mars (those are Martian days, by the way). It is free, and interesting. Isn't that what we all want in our software? [Via PopSciBlog] ...

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