Welcome to the official openNASA feedback and ideas forum. Do you have an idea? Do you recognize a good idea when you see one? We want to hear from you!
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10 votes
Combine all open_____ communities into one site
A number of great websites have started recently, such as opennasa.com, opengoddard.com, openlarc.com. There is an endless possibility for others. Use openNASA.com as a platform for all these websites via tabs at the top that can be expanded to include any community who would like a website. T... more
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9 votes
Feature spacehack.org projects
Collaborate with SpaceHack on it such that a monthly project is "introduced" concurrently and with fanfare on SpaceHack that month, and content about that project flows between OpenNASA and SpaceHack during that month. Goal would be to achieve escape velocity for the project during tha... more
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9 votes
Hold an openNASA workshop
Hold an openNASA workshop to bring together anyone and everyone who would like to talk about the development of openNASA and how to use it as a platform for opening up the agency. Stream into secondlife for anyone who could not attend in person.
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7 votes
Recruit people to create OpenXXXX Sites at Every NASA Center
Currently OpenNASA.com, OpenGoddard.com, and OpenLARC.com exist. Actively recruit people from Stennis, Dryden, Glenn, Kennedy, Johnson, GISS, Langley and JPL to create their own version of OpenXXX sites with a consistent template and approach.
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5 votes
Featured Bloggers
Invite featured guest bloggers from inside and/or outside NASA to blog on openNASA.com.
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5 votes
Community Calendar
Add a community calendar to the site which feeds in all other community calendars as well as allows users to add their own events. Link to cafe philosophies in various cities and events at NASA centers. Also allow people to use this to coordinate co-working meetups to either flesh out ideas or ... more
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3 votes
Use a magnetic orbiting spacecraft to collect metal debris.
I don't know if magnets even work in space, but if they do....
Perhaps a "magnetic craft" could be used to fly around earth orbit and pick up any metallic debris.
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3 votes
work with Google to create and iGoogle for NASA
Design a new Web 2.0 site with gadgets that people can create, document sharing, with gadgets for email, blogs and calendars, just like iGoogle.
Web 2.0 is about more than just writing and discussing ideas...it's about building and sharing new apps, working on projects as teams, using web conf... more
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2 votes
openNASA on the news
Create a page on the openNASA webpage that links to all the articles, blog posts, or news mentioning openNASA.com.
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2 votes
Comments Policy
Write a comments policy and add a flagging feature so that the openNASA community can self-moderate comments that violate the policy. Flagged comments would go to moderators on openNASA for review to make sure they are in actually in violation of the policy.
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2 votes
Create a save button on the comments box
Many times when inputting a comment something happens and the comment you spent some time creating gets lost. This could be alleviated by having the comment be saved. This is especially useful for people that have an account on opennasa.com. Making the comment box bigger can be done at the sam... more
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1 votes
Author and Guest Avatars
Use open Avatar's for authors of the post (in place of the calendar) as well as for guests who have open avatars. Makes the site much more personal.
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1 votes
Mars rover solar array duster
Dust was a major problem with all rover solar arrays. I propose the rotation of one or more of the wheels could also agitate a circular array of fluid bubbles. This could be connected to a thin polyurethane sheet that covers the arrays. This sheet should have a snake of thin tubes crimped into it... more
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1 votes
STS Finale - 3 Shuttles to Mars
STS Finale - 3 Shuttles to Mars
by Michael J. Coppi, mjcoppi@cs.com, 01/02/09
BASIC PLAN - BEFORE RETIRING THE STS FLEET [2011], USE THE SHUTTLES FOR A MANNED MISSION TO MARS
Man on Mars by 2019
As a former Aerospace Engineer with the Space Transportation System, I see no
reason wh... more -
1 votes
Seed Mars!
Seed Mars!
We must begin now to prepare Mars for future colonization by Humans.
The 'search for life' program is now anticlimactic at best, moot at worst.
Future probes should be deliberately "contaminated" with any and all organisms that have the slightest chance of survivin... more
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1 votes
OpenNASAGoddardLangleyEtc.
Make prominent feeds to OpenGoddard and openLangley on OpenNASA. openLangley has feeds for OpenNASA and OpenGoddard and it helps folks see what everyone is doing on these sites at a glance. I also have these feeds on other sites less used, such as our New Media Team page.
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1 votes
to make magnetic force in space which be use as a gravity
please think of this concept as u know we can make magnetic force on earth by simply rotate two things opposite to eachother
why dont we make spacecraft that is like a ball and has another ballinto it and between two balls there is a thing or we say a place where we sit !!
we should rotate thes... more -
1 votes
build a inter-galaxy vehicle
It sounds more like a science fiction than a reality. I dream to build a giant inter-galaxy vehicle that can travel from a galaxy to the other. Of course it consist of many parts which have to be launched separately. I realize it is almost impossible. It just an idea.
