A project for the 2025 NASA Space Apps Challenge — “Build a Space Biology Knowledge Engine”

Your task is to build a functional web application that leverages AI, knowledge graphs, and/or other tools to summarize and make accessible the vast corpus of NASA bioscience data.

The challenge prompt:

“Build a Space Biology Knowledge Engine” — organize and surface insights from decades of NASA space biology research, making it easier for users (scientists, educators, enthusiasts) to explore life science in space.

You can find the official challenge here:
Build a Space Biology Knowledge Engine (NASA Space Apps 2025)

• Ingest or access NASA bioscience / space biology datasets.
• Provide an interface (web UI / API) for users to query, browse, and get meaningful summaries.
• Possibly integrate AI / NLP models to generate summaries or answer domain-specific questions.

Clone Repository:

git clone https://github.com/Hackathon-Team-WMU/nasa-space-bio

pip install python3

cd ./backend

NEBIUS_API_KEY=

Linux:

sudo apt install python3-venv -y        # Ubuntu/Debian

sudo dnf install python3-venv -y        # Fedora

Windows:

pip install virtualenv

Linux:

python -m venv your_env_name
or

python3 -m venv your_env_name

source your_env_name/bin/activate

Windows:

python -m venv your_env_name

# Command Prompt
your_env_name\Scripts\activate.bat

# Powershell
your_env_name\Scripts\Activate.ps1

pip install -r requirements.txt

or

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

python scripts/fetchData.py

or

python3 scripts/fetchData.py

python llm/embeddings_builder.py

or

python3 llm/embeddings_builder.py

python app.py

or

python3 app.py

https://nodejs.org/en/download

cd ./frontend

npm i

Copy into .env and fill in own info:

VITE_SUPABASE_PROJECT_ID=
VITE_SUPABASE_PUBLISHABLE_KEY=
VITE_SUPABASE_URL=

npm run dev

http://localhost:8080/

This project utilized AI tools in compliance with NASA Space Apps Challenge guidelines:

• Code Development: Lovable (base template) and Windsurf/ChatGPT (feature implementation) were used to accelerate development
• Image Generation: The landing page hero image (frontend/src/assets/space-hero.jpg) was AI-generated and includes a visible "AI GENERATED" watermark
• Human Oversight: All AI-generated code and content was reviewed, tested, modified, and integrated by the team

📄 For complete details, see AI_DISCLOSURE.md

This project was built for the NASA Space Apps Challenge 2025 by Hackathon-Team-WMU:
https://www.spaceappschallenge.org/2025/find-a-team/team-broncos/

• Cody Thornell
• Sresthaa Shaga
• Demitrius Webb