Major hospitals and research organizations dedicated to curing cancer rely on open source data management software developed at NASA. Thanks to a framework originally devised to manage scientific data collected from distant planets, doctors have better tools to examine the outcomes of various interventions and make better informed treatment decisions.
Data from NASA’s many spacefaring missions, such as images and data sent back from Saturn and Jupiter, is stored in the Planetary Data System, a massive archive of scientific information distributed across the nation. Computer scientists at NASA developed a unique framework for storing and accessing this data, which was later released as open source software and given to a nonprofit organization to manage.
Learn more about how NASA helped develop technology that impacts open source data management within your city's medical environment!