This is a repository storing historical information about the NASA Datanauts initiative, and my work therein.

About the NASA Datanauts open data initiative

The NASA Datanauts (2015-2020) was an open data initiative formed in 2015 through the NASA Office of the Chief Information Officer. Beginning in 2016, it consisted of yearly classes of selected applicants interested in data topics and utilizing NASA data. NASA employees were part of the classes, some serving as subject-matter experts and mentors. A goal of the initiative was to increase the presence of women in data science, NASA, and STEM disciplines See this historical snapshot for the description with the founding class.

• Logo: see this version without a background, and this other version with a background

• Official NASA Datanauts GitHub Repository: https://github.com/NASADatanauts/

• Original website (now offline, archived in Wayback Machine website): https://open.nasa.gov/explore/datanauts/

  • Example page on that web archive website:
    • 2015 historical capture: https://web.archive.org/web/20151016125155/https://open.nasa.gov/explore/datanauts/
    • 2021 historical capture: https://web.archive.org/web/20210303025731/https://open.nasa.gov/explore/datanauts/

• Example GitHub pages by a NASA employee who was a manager of the Datanauts: https://github.com/davidmeza1/NASADatanauts

Videos

• Space Apps NYC Conference April 28 2017
• YouTube 5 March 2017 ESA Event

News stories

• 2015 - How NASA broke the gender barrier in STEM
• 2017 - DataDiscovery Magazine - (Cover page) & (First page)
• 2017 event

Podcasts

• Unrelated podcast that includes a former Datanaut member discussing it

From NASA.gov website

• 2016 Datanauts Kickoff Event Gallary - See this screen-capture image of the website
• 2016 Kickoff example

From Wayback machine

• 12 July 2016 Story - Description of origins - 16Dec2016 web capture
• Datanauts webpage 2016 founding class
• 24 Dec 2017 web-capture
• Datanauts Applicaiton page

From the U.S. Federal Register

• 2019 call
• 2020 call

About my involvment

I applied to the program in 2017 and was accepted into the Spring 2017 class. I gave a presentation on ontology (purchase here), and attended regular meetings, and sessions. I worked with a NASA employee. The work eventually became a NASA Technical Memorandum. The images folder contains some screen-captures providing proof of my membership.

• I'm shown on this roster webpage, linked from the landing page here.

Below are screen-captures taken at the time, or taken on the archival website of my Datanauts profile webpage, on roster webpages.

Below is a screen-capture of my presentaiton description