NASA selected two teams to receive the agency’s Software of the Year Award. A team from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., was recognized for their “Land Information System Software ...

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NASA uses thousands of unique software products from hundreds of vendors in its efforts to advance science, technology, aeronautics, Earth studies, and space exploration. Each software application and ...

The NASA Open Government Initiative has launched a new website to expand the agency's open source software development. Open source development, which invites the public access to view and improve ...

Launch control software under development for NASA's deep-space exploration program is more than a year behind schedule and tens of millions of dollars above projected costs, according to an internal ...

The public will now have access to many of NASA's computational innovations thanks to a new effort to make some of them available for download. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in a statement that ...

During a launch countdown, rockets must be continually checked to ensure that control pumps, motors, fuel levels, and myriad other systems and subsystems are operating normally. It takes sophisticated ...

This question originally appeared on Quora: Is it true that NASA continued to use 1960s and 1970s software technology during the space shuttle era into the 2000s because the software was bulletproof?