Introducing the NASA Onboard Artificial Intelligence Research (OnAIR) platform: an interview with Evana Gizzi

The Thirty-Seventh Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI 2025), which took place alongside AAAI 2025, serves as a showcase for successful applications and novel uses of AI. One such application is the Onboard Artificial Intelligence Research (OnAIR) platform, introduced by Evana Gizzi and colleagues in their paper OnAIR: Applications of The NASA On-Board Artificial Intelligence Research Platform. This open-source software pipeline and cognitive architecture tool has been designed to aid space research and missions. We spoke to Evana, Artificial Intelligence Research Lead at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, about the OnAIR platform, some of the particular challenges of deploying AI-based solutions in space, and how the tool has been used so far. OnAIR is an open-source software pipeline and cognitive architecture tool.