Paradigm Shift - Space Apps Challenge

Paradigm Shift| Mission to Planet Earth: A Digital History

Mission to Planet Earth: A Digital History

NASA’s activities in space have brought new knowledge of the Earth, inspiring new ways of thinking about humanity and the planet. However, many people aren’t aware that NASA studies the Earth in addition to other planets. Your challenge is to tell stories of NASA’s Earth science enterprise using interactive digital tools. This will test your technical skills and your ability to think like a historian or educator.

Digital Stories

Summary

We built an App to tell the story of Kalpana Chawla, the first woman of Indian origin to go to space. Hers is a story of courage, power, and bravity.The App, made using Flutter, uses liquid animations and timeline display to provide knowledge while keeping things fun and interactive. The app also integrates AR to pay homage to a life well-lived.The data we’ve collected and the research we've done, we'd like to share it with the world. It is not only our goal to spread the word but also to make it fun as we go.

How We Addressed This Challenge

We have developed an App that tells a digital story. The story of India's first woman in Space, Kalpana Chawla.

The launch button opens up to a Timeline Page which tells the story of Kalpana from her birth in Karnal, to her Education, her getting selected in NASA to her untimely demise in the Columbia Accident.

The best part, all the containers are clickable with links to external resources for more information.

The app also integrates Augmented Reality feature which once fully developed would allow the users to meetup Kalpana virtually through their smartphones.

But since under production currently it augments a Black oval through the camera onto the surroundings, representative of the vast space which Kalpana laid her life exploring. The black dot is also a symbol for: Stories in the Dark, yet to be explored.

How We Developed This Project

The app is made using Flutter.

We also have a landing page Website which is made using CSS and HTML.

Code repository for both are available at:

https://github.com/adityathakurxd/paradigmshift

How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

As mentioned the containers on the Timeline Page are clickable with links to external resources for more information. We have linked to open data from NASA and of NASA's partner agencies for Space Apps 2020 (CSA, CNES, JAXA, etc.).

Like the Columbia incident one opens up to Accident Investigation Report by NASA itself.

https://history.nasa.gov/columbia/Troxell/Columbia%20Web%20Site/CAIB/CAIB%20Synopsis.htm