http://simonwillison.net/2009-07-28T12:10:29+00:00Simon Willison2009-07-28T12:10:29+00:002009-07-28T12:10:29+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jul/28/nebula/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://nebula.nasa.gov/services">NASA NEBULA Services</a></strong></p> NASA’s new NEBULA cloud computing platform appears to be built entirely on open source infrastructure, including Python, Django, Fabric, Eucalyptus, RabbitMQ, Trac and Solr. <p><small></small>Via <a href="http://agiletesting.blogspot.com/2009/07/python-well-represented-in-nasas-nebula.html">Grig Gheorghiu</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/cloud-computing">cloud-computing</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/django">django</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/eucalyptus">eucalyptus</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/fabric">fabric</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/nasa">nasa</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/nebula">nebula</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/open-source">open-source</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/rabbitmq">rabbitmq</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/solr">solr</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/trac">trac</a></p>

2008-09-01T13:54:30+00:002008-09-01T13:54:30+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Sep/1/preparing/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/09/preparing_to_rescue_hubble.html">Preparing to rescue Hubble</a></strong></p> The Big Picture has pictures of the preparations for next month’s Space Shuttle Atlantis mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope for the last time, including a photo of astronauts practicing underwater. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/hubblespacetelescope">hubblespacetelescope</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/nasa">nasa</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/photography">photography</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/space">space</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/spaceshuttle">spaceshuttle</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/thebigpicture">thebigpicture</a></p>

2008-08-22T08:28:35+00:002008-08-22T08:28:35+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Aug/22/xkcd/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="http://blag.xkcd.com/2008/08/22/pi-con-math-gender-glaubama/"><p>A convention once saw, for example, that I had worked at NASA, and put me on a panel about the future of space exploration.  I felt a little out-of-place, given that my main NASA achievement was that I once lassoed a robot with cat-6 cable and had it pull me around the hallways charioteer-style.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="http://blag.xkcd.com/2008/08/22/pi-con-math-gender-glaubama/">Randall Munroe</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/nasa">nasa</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/randallmunroe">randallmunroe</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/xkcd">xkcd</a></p>

2008-05-25T19:41:09+00:002008-05-25T19:41:09+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/May/25/twitter/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://twitter.com/MarsPhoenix">Twitter / MarsPhoenix</a></strong></p> NASA’s Mars Phoenix lander, due to land on the planet today, has a Twitter account. Bio: “I dig Mars!”. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mars">mars</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/marsphoenix">marsphoenix</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/nasa">nasa</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/twitter">twitter</a></p>