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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."

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  1. That is, of course, by jmknsd · · Score: 4, Funny

    Until Apple bans it because they want to carve their logo into the moon, and can't support a competing application.

  2. Why? by stepdown · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What part of this couldn't be achieved with a website? Is there really any reason to be developing iPhone apps for a service like this rather than letting us all use it?

    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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  3. Conspiracy Theorist App by allknowingfrog · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How long until someone releases a "We Didn't Really Land on the Moon!" App?

    1. Re:Conspiracy Theorist App by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'm curious if they include the faked missions as well.

  4. Ease up, naysayers by HisMother · · Score: 5, Insightful

    To everyone posting to say that "It should be a website!1!!": It is a website, of course -- or rather, all this info is already available on NASA's website. NASA has a fabulous web presence, and has for a long time. The iPhone app just makes selected information available in a nice form-factor for mobile. Could this have been done as WAP pages, so Blackberry/Android/whatever users could see it? I guess, sure, but it wouldn't be as nice as the iPhone app. It's an experiment, guys. Not wasteful, not elitist. Lighten the hell up.

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  5. It'll be cool when ... by PPH · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... we can turn on director's comments, view the storyboard, alternate endings, deleted scenes, bloopers, etc.

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