How the Novell-backed Silverlight impacts GNU/Linux users and what NASA is doing with it

"PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA has successfully tested the first deep space communications network modeled on the Internet.

On March 29 & 30, NASA will host its first Open Source Summit at Ames Research Center in Mountain View California.

The impact of aeronautics in the United States becoming dependent on outdated proprietary software from Microsoft

Yet another reason for Nasa to use exclusively Free Software...

"Linux was selected for a NASA experiment aimed at proving the feasibility of COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) hardware and software for scientific space missions."

NASA has selected an SGI Altix supercomputer to help it meet future high-performance computing requirements. The new system will be the first supercomputer to operate 2,048 processor cores and 4TB of memory under control of one Linux kernel, creating the world's largest single-kernel Linux system, NASA and SGI announced this week.

The "brains" of the Ares I rocket that will send four astronauts back to the moon sometime in the next 12 years will be built by Boeing, NASA announced today—but the specifications will be open-source and non-proprietary, so that other companies can bid on future contracts.

Hosting company Rackspace and NASA have announced launch of a new open source cloud platform called OpenStack. In addition to Rackspace and NASA, the new Apache-licensed project is backed by a number of technology industry leaders, including Citrix, Dell, Intel and AMD