1969年7月20日。9岁的克里斯·哈德菲尔德(Chris Hadfield)和6亿人一样，目不转睛地盯着电视，看着美国宇航员尼尔·阿姆斯特朗(Neil Armstrong)从登月舱的梯子上滑下来，然后猛地一扑，就接触到了一个熟悉却陌生的世界的尘埃。His words forever immortalized, “That’s one small step for man, …Read More“From Historic Images to Galactic Datasets: A Look at NASA’s Mission to Be Open”
Yesterday, the European Space Agency announced an Open Access policy for images and data under a Creative Commons BY-SA license. ESA has made various moves toward making data and images more open in the past, but this announcement is a major milestone for the organization’s commitment to openness. Previously, ESA released individual images under Creative …Read More“European Space Agency announces new Open Access Policy for Images and Data”
Hubble Space Telescope and Earth Limb / NASA on The Commons / No known copyright restrictions If you could send a folder with 50 MB of content to every human on Earth, what would you include? This weekend Creative Commons volunteers and Outernet are hosting a CC Content Edit-a-thon to populate the first Outernet library …Read More“Help Outernet and Creative Commons build a #LibraryFromSpace”
“Voyager Golden Record Cover Explanation” by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory – NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons The Voyager Spacecrafts are carrying with them sounds of the earth, of our civilization, recorded on a 12″ gold plated copper disc, a golden record, along with instructions for how to play them. …Read More“The Voyager Golden Record”
