Want to keep up with the latest developments at NASA?
Now there’s an app for that.
The space agency launched an iPhone application last week that allows users to track current and future launches as well as keep up with the position of the International Space Station.
The app also offers users access to the agency’s vast image library and integrates NASA’s Twitter feeds, making it a one-stop fingertip-shop for all of NASA’s interstellar goings-on.
“Making NASA more accessible to the public is a high priority for the agency,” said Gale Allen, director of NASA’s Strategic Integration and Management for Exploration Systems Mission. “Tools like this allow us to provide users easy access to NASA information and progress at a fast pace.”
Users can put the app to immediate use when NASA tries again Wednesday to launch its unmanned test rocket Ares 1-X. A day earlier, the agency scrubbed the launch because of cloudy, windy weather.
The flight test is part of NASA’s mission to someday return astronauts to the moon and later travel to Mars.
The space agency has consistently struggled with funding. It is hoping that Congress will boost its current $18.7 billion annual budget by at least $3 billion, so it can continue its ambitious programs.
The new application is free on the iTunes store.
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