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NASA Releases Cool, Free iPhone App

Posted by Soulskill on from the iplanets-and-imoons dept.

lenehey writes "A new free iPhone app provided by NASA was released today. The app lists each of NASA's missions, and allows you to see a brief description, the latest news updates, images, videos, etc., corresponding to that mission. A timer is also provided for each mission, logging the days, hours, and seconds until (or since) the mission launch."

2 of 47 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Why? by c_forq · · Score: 4, Informative

    Publicity and exposure. Making into the top apps is basically free advertising to everyone with an iPhone AND everyone that reads tech sites (and maybe mainstream news in the next few days). Do it as a webpage and it will probably only make a buzz on tech sites and the crawl of 24 hour news channels.

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  2. Re:Conspiracy Theorist App by allknowingfrog · · Score: 1, Informative

    On second thought, I'm also surprised that there isn't one already. Maybe they blew the budget on tinfoil hats.