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24 July 2007

+ 0 - 1 | § ¶NASA iPhone

iPhone

OK, this is exactly the sort of thing that this blog pretty much has to post:

The students received a $2,500 cash prize from NASA after they wrote a winning paper in a space systems engineering contest.

The paper focused on the benefits of using the iPhone in NASA ground operations during inspections and pre-launch buildup for launch vehicles, beating out six other schools' projects from around the country.

In addition to the cash prize, the students' project won them the opportunity to attend a NASA launch, something that Samantha Vaitkunas said made her feel "like a proud mama."

My favorite part of this is that, basically, NASA gave some students a prize for coming up with a good justification for the agency spending government money to buy iPhones, which I completely empathize with.

Keywords: apple,iphone,nasa

24 July 2007 - 12:21 | | MacsApple, Space | Only one comment