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NASA MMO game to get mini-demo in January
3 hours ago ago from Big Download Blog
Last February Big Download broke the news that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration was funding the development of an educational MMO project called Astronaut: Moon, Mars and Beyond . While that game isn't due to be completed for some time NASA is apparently whipping up a mini-demo based on the game that will be released soon. Titled Moonbase Alpha (we wonder if there are some fans of the Space: 1999 TV series at NASA) the demo ...
Related contentNASA releases new information on their upcoming MMO
20 hours ago ago from Massively
Back in November , we talked about an exciting space MMO in the works from NASA , called Astronaut: Moon, Mars, and Beyond . The information they had at the time was pretty extensive, and left us anxious to find out more and try it out. We're getting our wish, as NASA has announced that Moonbase Alpha , a "mini-demo game', will be available on Steam around January of 2010. Moonbase Alpha gives a real look at NASA Constellation program ...
Related contentA Reader Asks about Apollo | Echoes of Apollo
18 hours ago ago from Echoes of Apollo
One of our great Facebook friends, student Zeynep Tasci from Budapest Hungary asked: Why didn't NASA have any spaceflight program to Moon after the Apollo program? EOA: Money they achieved their goal of beating the USSR to the moon and the general public in the US lost interest in the moon. The program cost a huge amount! 10 times what the current program costs and in 1966 peaked at around 5% of the US federal budget. You can ...
Related contentA Meteorite From the Moon
20 hours ago ago from The Daily Planet
Not your ordinary space rock. (NASA image) In 1982, the idea that a chunk of rock could be hurled from the moon to Earth by a lunar impact was considered pretty far out. For one thing, wouldn't such a massive, high-energy explosion destroy the evidence by turning the excavated rocks to glass? Besides, meteorites were well known to come from small bodies like asteroids. On January 18 of that year, a pair of geologists hunting for ...
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