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Oct 27, 09 - 01:18 pm Comment from: Macintosher

It's a great app, and you can watch countdowns that should've happened but were postponed, and on the app it goes ahead anyway. I recommend it. Oh, and basic info is also available offline.

cool. downloaded.

Oct 27, 09 - 01:31 pm Comment from: gladmax

Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of government bureaucrats....

Don't look up to the sky's at night, look down on your iPhone by day instead!

Oct 27, 09 - 01:35 pm Comment from: boyweho

<sarcasm> That phone, that iPhone, doesn't have a keyboard, doesn't multitask, won't be successful, won't grab any marketshare. </sarcasm>

Oct 27, 09 - 01:36 pm Comment from: Wandering Joe

I want the Tricorder app, when's it coming?

Oct 27, 09 - 01:39 pm Comment from: gladmax

@ Wandering Joe:
http://www.iphonesavior.com/2009/05/bridge-to-captain-tricorder-tr580-is-back-in-the-app-store.html

"..The NASA application will deliver a wealth of information, videos, images and news updates about NASA missions to people's fingertips.."

I'd no idea that NASA was running missions to people's fingertips. So that's that tickling feeling..

gladmax: Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of government bureaucrats....

Yeah. We should really have left space to the Ferengi.

Oct 27, 09 - 01:54 pm Comment from: Botvinnik

damn, this is one cool app.

I think when you feel you need to explain your sarcasms, you stop being sarcastic if not the sarcasm is on you instead...or wait, was that irony?

Oct 27, 09 - 02:04 pm Comment from: gladmax

@ ping
Actually, I agree with you. NASA is [mostly] a government success story. What if Micro$oft had managed space exploration?

Oct 27, 09 - 02:14 pm Comment from: justme2

@gladman: Wasn't HAL programmed in Redmond?

Oct 27, 09 - 02:26 pm Comment from: McIntosh

What a neat app! I wonder if the to-be-rescheduled launch of Ares I could be shown live thru this app : )

This is interesting...what's the app that allows you to look at the sky and have it show you what planets and stars are where? Trying to find it but for some reason I'm coming up empty. :(

Oct 27, 09 - 03:09 pm Comment from: Tommyr

This has been available for about a week now. Neat ap!

it's called sky voyager and I think it's free

gladmax: Actually, I agree with you. NASA is [mostly] a government success story. What if Micro$oft had managed space exploration?

We'd still be paying for new launchers which would "surely" work next time – unless Microsoft had found a way to copy the more successful russian technology, of course!

Oct 27, 09 - 04:47 pm Comment from: Mac Daddy

Ian wrote:
"what's the app that allows you to look at the sky and have it show you what planets and stars are where? Trying to find it but for some reason I'm coming up empty..."

Pocket Universe might be the one you are looking for...

Oct 27, 09 - 05:04 pm Comment from: Renderdog

@ping and gladmax

I'm sorry but NASA has done a very poor job getting anything done since the days of Apollo. What are they trying to accomplish now, 40 years later? That's right, go to the moon! Sadly I don't think Microsoft could have done much worse, looks to me they've wasted just about the same amount of money going nowhere.

And this isn't just some space exploration hater's opinion, I worked as an aerospace engineer at NASA for 26 years.

Sky Voyager..... I looked it up thinking it would be nice, but at $14.99, I think I will pass for the time being...

Oct 28, 09 - 02:40 pm Comment from: The Other Steve

This is a far cry from the old NASA that wanted to ban all Apple hardware from the agency.