One weekend in late April, NASA held a worldwide hackathon dubbed the Space Apps Challenge. The event was the biggest of its kind ever run. While the civic hacking movement that inspired the event has so far focused its efforts on public services (see main story), here the ideas were out-of-this-world. NASA asked more than 9000 volunteers to do things like develop interactive tours of the lunar surface, present visualisations of scientific data, or create apps for scientists and astronauts.
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