A two-day hackathon-style event that invites people from around the world to create and collaborate on projects relevant to space exploration. The International Space Apps Challenge is a “technology development marathon”, where software developers, engineers, designers and technologists from around the world can mashup data, code and design to create clever solutions, explorations and experiments. Attendees can submit their own hack ideas or work on existing ones. Some hack ideas submitted so far include redesigning the Voyager Golden Record, creating better access to NASA data, mapping Earth’s Aurora, building suborbital payloads, and developing methods and equipment for baking in space.

The International Space Apps Challenge will take place April 21-22, 2012 on all seven continents and in space. Locations in which events are currently planned to be held include San Francisco, US; Tokyo, Japan; Melbourne and Canberra, Australia; Jakarta, Indonesia; Exeter and Oxford, UK; Nairobi, Kenya; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; and McMurdo Station, Antarctica. There will be additional events throughout the world and participation by astronauts on the International Space Station.

Project owners + coordinators:
Elizabeth Sabet, Operations Lead
Kristen Painting, Project Manager
Nicholas Skytland, Program Manager
Sean Herron, Technology Strategist