NASA Bet on Open Source. Here's What Happened

NASA recognized that the open source libraries underpinning its missions, NumPy, SciPy, pandas, scikit-learn, were a single point of failure, so it invested directly in strengthening and modernizing them. Through a partnership with Quansight Labs and OpenTeams, NASA delivered breakthroughs like NumPy 2.0, GPU-enabled scientific computing, and new core maintainers to secure the future of space science.