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Is NASA an open source of knowledge for the public?
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this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2025
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Works, reports, and software that NASA produces itself are "works of the United States", so they are in the public domain by law.
However, not everything NASA does is a published work, such as the classified GPS encryption modules on the shuttle or private medical conferences with ISS crewmembers. Additionally, a lot of stuff is actually done by contractors, such as SpaceX or Boeing, and those may or may not be required by contract to release various amounts of data to the public.
I did a quick Google search, and I was unable to find anything contemporary where NASA is maintaining or developing an in house Fortran compiler.
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