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The best and brightest took us to the moon with the computing power of pocket calculators. Now they\u2019re taking us farther\u2014and they\u2019re doing it with the tech we\u2019ve been talking about all season. Open source is taking us to Mars.\n\nThe Season 2 finale takes us to NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Tom Soderstrom shares how much JPL has gained by embracing open source. Hila Lifshitz-Assaf explains that NASA is solving some of their greatest problems with open software and crowdsourcing. And Dan Wachspress describes how working with NASA means proprietary companies need to make some sacrifices\u2014but they get to work on the most innovative projects in the world.\n\nThe explorers of the final frontier are choosing to work in the open\u2014and Mars is their destination. What\u2019s next?