NASA Launches New App For Android

[NASA News <hqnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

July 7, 2011

Grey Hautaluoma 
Headquarters, Washington 
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Rachel Hoover 
Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 
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RELEASE: 11-185

NASA LAUNCHES NEW APP FOR ANDROID

WASHINGTON -- NASA has launched the free NASA App for Android (TM), a 
new application designed for mobile devices that run the open source 
Android platform. 

The NASA App is available for free on Android MarketTM at:  



https://market.android.com/details?id=gov.nasa   





"The NASA App for iPhone and iPad has been a phenomenal success with 
over five million downloads so far," said Jerry Colen, NASA App 
project manager at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, 
Calif. "Making a version of the NASA App for Android has been the 
number one request from users. We are delighted to fulfill this 
request and put NASA's amazing content into the hands of millions of 
Android users around the world." 

The NASA App for Android showcases a huge collection of NASA content, 
including images, videos on-demand, live streaming video from NASA 
Television, mission information, feature stories and breaking news. 
Users also can find sighting opportunities for the International 
Space Station and track the current positions of spacecraft currently 
orbiting Earth. App users also easily can share NASA content with 
their friends and followers on Facebook, Twitter or via e-mail. 

For more information about the NASA App for Android, visit: 



http://www.nasa.gov/nasaapp 


Android and Android Market are trademarks of Google Inc. Use of these 
trademarks is subject to Google permission. 

	
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