NASA technology is finally within your reach as the space agency released a top secret software to the public last week. More specifically, NASA released its 2017 to 2018 software catalog, free of any charges, royalty fees, and even copyright fees.

According to the associate administrator of NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate, Steve Jurczyk, this new software catalog means that NASA is supporting innovation by providing free access to the tools and programs used by the best aerospace professionals to small businesses, entrepreneurs, academics, and other industries. He added that this access to important software codes could potentially generate huge and tangible benefits to create more American jobs and also revenue as well as save human lives.

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This NASA software catalog can be viewed online and also downloaded for hard copy. This software can also be utilized and applied in aeronautics, operations, business, propulsion, and data processing.  These sectors should be able to use many advanced technological programs despite some of the codes possessing restrictions.

According to NASA's Technology Transfer Program's Dan Lockney, all of NASA's successful missions and scientific discoveries are all attributed to the critical applications of NASA software. In reality, all of successful NASA innovations are comprised of 30 percent software. "We are excited to transfer these tools to other sectors and we anticipate the prospect of seeing NASA software implemented in new, creative ways," Lockney said.

This new software catalog contains incredible technology such as updated atmospheric models of Earth, Mars, Venus, and Neptune that are known as Global Reference Atmospheric Models. These models can reveal air pressures and temperatures of these planets as well. Apart from this, NASA also included entertaining simulation software so users can feel how it is to be on a spacewalk at the International Space Station.

Recently, NASA discovered several Earth-like exoplanets that can potentially host life, thanks to the Spitzer Space Telescope. The TRAPPIST-1 system is located 40 light years away from Earth in the Aquarius constellation.