Emerging Tech

Elon Musk Triumphs: SpaceX Vertically Launches Orbital Rocket

The company has finally achieved the goal it has pursued for years.

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
Emerging Tech

NASA’s About to Have Its Biggest Budget in a Decade

The space agency will be able to spend $19.3 bil­lion next year, ac­cord­ing to the budget, an in­crease of more than $1.3 bil­lion over 2015 fund­ing levels.

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
Emerging Tech

Video: How Do Astronauts Watch the Super Bowl in Space?

Cheering every touchdown from orbit.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild
Digital Government

Attention, Would-Be Astronauts: NASA Now Accepting Online Applications

Prepare to face some stiff competition.

  • By Michael Tabb, Quartz
Emerging Tech

Video: How Do You Build a Death Star? A NASA Engineer Explains

It wouldn't be created by launching pieces from a planet, which is how NASA built the International Space Station.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild
Emerging Tech

Which 'Star Wars' Droid Would Be Helpful on a NASA Space Mission?

These might be the droids we're looking for.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild
Digital Government

The 15 Most Innovative Agencies in Government

Federal employees have once again rated NASA as the agency where innovation and creativity are most rewarded

  • By Jack Moore
Emerging Tech

Video: Honey, I Shrunk the Satellites!

These NASA mini-satellites are tiny, but can pack a big punch.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild
Emerging Tech

NASA Celebrates 20 Years of Heliophysics

This spacecraft has kept an eye toward the center of our solar system.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild
Emerging Tech

Video: 9-Year-Old Cub Reporter Interviews NASA's Charles Bolden

This kid has big questions about NASA's future, including the space agency's space travel plans.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild
People

Evan Chan

At JPL, Evan Chan helped lead the creation of paperless procurement and augmented-reality initiatives.

  • By Zach Noble, FCW
Acquisition

Sun could be setting on DUNS

Open-government advocates have long criticized the reliance on the proprietary DUNS identifier in federal contracting, and it appears that some agencies are listening.

  • By Mark Rockwell, FCW
Emerging Tech

NASA Unveiled New Prototype of Crowdsourced Spacesuit Astronauts Will Wear on Mars

NASA still has another decade or two to finalize the suit, if it wants to meet its goal of putting humans on Mars by the 2030s.

  • By Adam Epstein, Quartz
Emerging Tech

Video: The Search for Another Earth

A NASA documentary shows the journey from the very first planets spotted outside our solar system to the more than one thousand exoplanets discovered by Kepler.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild
People

Hiring astronauts on USAJobs, undersea cable worries and more

News and notes from around the federal IT community.

  • By FCW Staff, FCW
Digital Government

NASA's daily dose of Earth, sorta-secret GAO reports and an IG's public plea

News and notes from around the federal IT community.

  • By FCW Staff, FCW
Emerging Tech

Video: How to Train Like an Astronaut

Experience the strange environment of a space station without ever leaving the ground.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild
Digital Government

NASA Space Satellites Helped Forecast South Carolina Flooding

NASA has stepped in to help predict the path of South Carolina's flooding by using its space-based satellites.

  • By Hallie Golden
Digital Government

Join a Drone Over the Indonesian Fires Smoking Out an Entire Region

A strong El Niño climate phenomenon has created particularly dry conditions and led to fast-spreading fires, all captured by drones and satellites.

  • By Steve Mollman, Quartz
Emerging Tech

White House Renews Bet on the Creativity of the Crowd

On the fifth anniversary of Challenge.gov, the White House announced nine new innovation contests, open to the public.

  • By Mohana Ravindranath
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