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Phoenix Mars Lander - A Victory for Open Source

Space agencies were some of the first places where you could find open source software in the wild . Being natural early adopters, cash-strapped and very inquisitive, the agencies naturally took to the open source concept. Additionally they were some of the first users of ARPAnet and subsequently the Internet, which lit a fire under the open source movement. Today this marriage between rocket science and open source saw its latest victory with the landing of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander.



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NASA Embraces Open Source for Space Missions

By the time you read this, Space Shuttle Endeavour will have left the launchpad at Florida's Kennedy Space Center and will be winging its way to the International Space Station to deliver new ISS components. As millions of people around the world watch the mission unfold on live video feeds captured by NASA's Telescience Lab, Fedora will be running the servers that distribute footage to Houston's Mission Control and NASA TV. In fact, various iterations of Fedora turn up all over Kennedy Space Center, including servers that manage data processing -- and even the countdown clock.


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