NASA App
By NASA Ames Research Center
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Description
Introducing the all-new NASA App 2.0 for iPhone and iPod Touch. This is the first major redesign since the initial launch in 2009.
Come explore with NASA in the palm of your hand.
Features:
• Current NASA mission information
• Over 155,000 images (and growing everyday)
• Latest news & feature stories (new)
• On demand NASA Videos from around the agency
• Live streaming of the NASA TV
• Third Rock internet streaming radio
• Launch information & countdown clocks
• Sighting opportunities (visible passes for the ISS)- Now with weather forecasts
• ISS and Earth orbiting satellite trackers
• Featured content section (new)
• Latest tweets from around the agency
• Programs section (new)
• Facebook® Connect and Integrated Twitter™ client for easy sharing
• Map, information and links to all of the NASA visitor centers (new)
• Favorites & image bookmarks (new)
• Printing support (new)
Requirements:
• iPhone or iPod touch with iOS 5 or later
• WiFi or cellular network connection
What's New in Version 2.0
- Completely new interface
- News & feature stories section
- Featured content section
- Programs section
- Weather forecast included in sighting opportunities
- New image browser
- Ability to favorite items and bookmark images
- "Feeds" button menu for filtering sections and long press feature to get info on selected feed
- Printing support
iPhone Screenshots
Customer Reviews
A wealth of content
Today's update reinforces my appreciation for this app! Information is now appropriately arranged and accessible from the starting page, and items within can be marked as favorites. The sighting opportunities feed is newly improved with a weather forecast (so I know I can sleep through the 4:20am sighting of Dragon because it's going to be cloudy and rainy). An addition to this version is "Centers" which gives you a map with locations of NASA centers you can visit, as well as your own location... click on the red pin to a center and you're given full info on the center including a map, hours of operant, cost, and a link to their web site. Other new features from the starting page include "Programs" and "Videos", and all in all, this is really a well-designed app. My only negative comment is very slight - and that is that you can still only watch NASA TV in landscape orientation, and in only ONE landscape orientation at that. However, I really have zero complaints - if I could have only one app, there would be no contest - this one, hands down, is the I use every single day, and I don't know where I'd be without it, especially since my cable TV provider doesn't deem it worth their while to carry NASA TV.
Missing retina graphics
Great content, but the low-res banner and several other non-retina graphics items are surprising for a brand new, 2.0 release two years after the intro of the retina display.
Informative & feature-rich
This app is great, and the update has made it even easier to use. If you love NASA (and you should!) then you should have this app.
- Free
- Category: Education
- Updated: May 21, 2012
- Version: 2.0
- Size: 4.9 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: NASA Ames Research Center
- © 2009: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation) and iPad.Requires iOS 5.0 or later.
