Build an AI-powered dashboard that summarizes, ranks and explains decades of NASA microgravity combustion results so they can inform fire safety for Moon and Mars missions.
Read the official challenge on spaceappschallenge.org
Coverage is thin: PSI has no documented public API, so expect manual downloads. The official resource list arrives Oct 28.
In order of how useful they are likely to be. These are suggestions, not the official resource list.
NASA STI Program
Search API over NASA technical reports, conference papers and journal articles, many with full-text PDFs. Over a thousand records match microgravity combustion, and it also covers mission design and spaceflight health.
endpoint https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/search
NASA Biological and Physical Sciences
Archive of microgravity physical-science experiments from the ISS and earlier flights, with a Combustion Science research area that includes spacecraft fire safety studies. Investigations include descriptions, publications and data files.
endpoint https://psi.nasa.gov/physci/repo/search?q=&data_source=psi&data_type=investigation
import requests
# Search NASA technical reports on microgravity combustion
params = {"q": "microgravity flame spread spacecraft fire safety", "page.size": 5}
r = requests.get("https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/search", params=params, timeout=60)
r.raise_for_status()
data = r.json()
print("total matches:", data["stats"]["total"])
for rec in data["results"]:
print(rec["id"], "|", rec["title"][:90])
# Record page: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/<id>Matched by theme. Study how they scoped the problem.