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PhoneSat 1.0 during a high-altitude balloon test.

NASA and the Maker Movement

September 17, 2013March 17, 2015Leave a comment

I recently talked to Sam Ortega, manager of the Centennial Challenges Program at NASA‘s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL, about the program and how makers have participated in the past during the series of technology prize competitions—started in 2005 to stimulate innovation in technologies of interest to NASA—and how they might participate in current and future challenges.

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