David Pollak dpp

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For software flying in Space:

Actually lot of our critical 3 projects/products uses open source software - especially Operating Systems
- http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/engineering/projects/phonesat.html - that project uses Android OS which is open source
- NASA flies Linux in Space for lot of its Critical 3 category software :)!
Astronaut's workstations have lots of open source software on it. For example, VLC media player, notepad++, Mozilla browser
Lot of time for flight software needs, there are not that many open source software packages out there so, NASA itself has also created many open source software packages for "core" flight software - these are currently used for it's critical 3 products such as satellites, landers, unmanned vehicles, and they are certifying it for critical 1 products such as space suits and future manned vehicles. Here is example of it, its called "Core Flight Executive", "Core F

	#!/bin/bash

	apt-get update
	apt-get install -y apt-transport-https ca-certificates
	apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://p80.pool.sks-keyservers.net:80 --recv-keys 58118E89F3A912897C070ADBF76221572C52609D

	echo 'deb https://apt.dockerproject.org/repo ubuntu-xenial main' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list

	apt-get update