Welcome to Space Apps Seattle

Home of the Seattle NASA International Space Apps Challenge →
A global hackathon in the city that unites tech and space!

Coming in October 2025

WATCH the 2024 PRESENTATIONS →

What is Space Apps?

NASA’s International Space Apps Challenge → takes place each year over the course of 48 hours to spark innovation on NASA challenges that benefit missions in space and life on Earth.

Build a team
Pick your challenge from NASA’s missions or bring your own
Hack away!

You have two days to build your project and put it before the judges.

Winners that become finalists in NASA’s global judging round have a shot at a special tour of Kennedy Space Center!

Come to Space Apps if you are…

A programmer, a data scientist, an engineer, a storyteller, a student, an educator, a project manager, an entrepreneur
You love data and you want to transform NASA’s open data sets into real world applications
You are passionate about space and you want to join in building our future together for the benefit of humanity.
You love hardware. Yes! Hardware projects welcome – Space Apps is more than “apps”! Bring your love for boards and dream up a solution for Earth or your own mission in space.

NASA Space App Speakers & Judges

Thanks to our 2024 Featured Speakers

Dorothy “Dottie” Metcalf-Lindenburger

Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger → is a retired NASA astronaut, aquanaut, geologist, and educator.

She grew up in Colorado and came to Washington state in 1993 to attend college. A scholar athlete, she ran cross-country and track and earned her B.A. in Geology from Whitman College. She went on to get a teaching certification from Central Washington University, and she taught earth science and astronomy for five years at Hudson’s Bay High School in Vancouver, WA. In addition to teaching, she coached cross country and Science Olympiad.
In June of 2004, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) selected her to join the Astronaut Corps. After several years of training, she flew as a mission specialist on the STS-131 crew, an International Space Station (ISS) resupply mission.