NASA's Kennedy Space Center Uses Ubuntu to Plan for the Exploration of Alien Planets

Posted by thesilviu on Aug 27, 2014 2:04 PM EDT
Softpedia; By Silviu Stahie
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NASA is constantly working on projects that will eventually be useful in the outer space and on alien planets, and it looks like they are going there with the help of Linux and Ubuntu.

It's not a secret that most of the scientific community likes and uses open source software. The reasons for this choice are numerous, but the bottom line is that wherever you see any kind of scientific endeavor, either at CERN, the Fermi Laboratories, or even NASA, it's always powered by open source software.

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