NASA Releases Latest Software Catalog to Public to Spur Tech Innovation

Download link of catalog: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;technology.nasa.gov&#x2F;NASA_Software_Catalog_2017-18.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;technology.nasa.gov&#x2F;NASA_Software_Catalog_2017-18.pd...</a>

Some quick search counts for the catalog:<p>25 matches for &quot;U.S. and Foreign Release&quot;<p>67 for &quot;General Public Release&quot;<p>175 for &quot;Open Source&quot;<p>212 for &quot;U.S. Release Only&quot;<p>225 for &quot;U.S. Government Purpose Release&quot;<p>So a good chunk of stuff is openly available, but there&#x27;s a lot that could still be opened up.

I attempted to request access to some 3 of their projects and was denied because it was &#x27;Government Use Only&#x27; and I did not try pretending I was another Government Agency.<p>I love the idea but it seems it is not as &#x27;released&#x27; or as open as I initially thought it was.

Wonderful; now we can proactively modify Curiosity&#x27;s code to act as an interplanetary telegraph so Matt Damon doesn&#x27;t have to do it once he gets stranded there.