NASA just launched code.nasa.gov, a web platform where code-literate space enthusiasts can collaborate with NASA geeks.Currently, the site is in its early alpha stages featuring a guide to getting involved and a list touting sexy project names like “International Polar Orbiter Processing Package,” “Lossless Hyper-/multi-spectral data compression software,” and “Lunar Mapper v1.” The site will later include a forum that NASA hopes will become a “highly visible community hub that will imbue open concepts into the formulation stages of new hardware and software projects.”The project arrives just as all kinds of amateurs are getting excited about coding, thanks to Code Academy, a free online course in programming that looks like Foursquare-meets-Math Blaster (the new Code Year course asks that each student spend about an hour a day for a year learning JavaScript, which may be a small price to pay for the great sums that will come to you as a master hacker).Read the rest at Motherboard.