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OpenStack Boldly Going Where No Cloud Has Gone Before (Mars)

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Sean Michael Kerner
May 20, 2015

OpenStack’s Nova compute project originally began as the Nebula project at NASA. At the OpenStack conference here, Jonathan Chiang, IT Chief Engineer at NASA JPL detailed how the space agency is now using OpenStack in its effort to land humans on Mars.

“NASA is a place where we dare mighty things,” Chiang said.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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