It’s the end of an era. “Marshall Space Flight Center powered down NASA’s last mainframe, the IBM Z9 Mainframe,” says Linda Cureton in her NASA Blog post. The powerful, refrigerator-sized computers that were once a hallmark of corporate and research data centers have steadily lost ground to off-the-shelf servers over the years. Mind you, mainframes still alive and kicking, […]
EverLast’s renewable-powered lighting system is NASA-approved
While it won’t be going into orbit, EverLast’s outdoor lighting system is still accomplishing a pretty neat feat for the spacefaring agency. The Jackson, Michigan-based company is behind the sensor-backed tech that’s providing an 0ff-grid parking lot at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas with zero-emissions, energy efficient outdoor induction lighting. How? With […]
Apollo 11's Green Tech Legacy
Forty years ago, astronuats first stepped on the moon. Today, the field of green tech has plenty of reasons to thank NASA for the pioneering advancements surrounding the history-making journey. Brian Coppa at Examiner.com lists five areas that have…
