NASA also is developing its own cloud computing technology known as Nebula. Nebula is an open source project that the space agency will use for building shared services, storage capacity, and computing cycles to reduce its costs. According to a CIO.com story on the project, Nebubla will let users throughout NASA can unilaterally provision and manage IT resources for low-security applications on demand. Next year, IT will launch Nebula's platform as a service: a shared development framework, code repository and set of Web services that developers can use to deploy secure, policy-compliant software-as-a-service applications. NASA has spent more than $10 million on the project, but it will be another year before the return is clear