NASA Responds To MMO Concerns

Sean Hollister writes "GameCyte contacted Daniel Laughlin, Project Manager of NASA Learning Technologies, to find out where that $3 million budget for their educational MMO actually went. As it turns out, NASA still has the money — they are just planning to use it differently than we thought. Meanwhile, the 'non-reimbursable Space Act Agreement' actually allows the game developer to profit where they might not have, otherwise. 'If it were a government contract, it would be illegal to be paid twice, once by the government and a second time by consumers.'"

Comments

Re:Now that's a good deal...

[electrictroy]

I'd rather see this game developed privately. Why? Because I don't want to see 3,000,000 taxpayer dollars wasted on a stupid game! Rather than WASTE the money, refund it back to the taxpayers struggling to pay their gasoline/food/electricity bills (or give it to the Welfare Department to help the needy).

People feeding themselves is a more important priority.

I'm tired of politicians wasting our money when WE NEED IT for our own expenses.

Re:Now that's a good deal...

[philspear]

I am the varcher75 anonymous coward, but not the varcher75 who forgot to login. Mod me up so that I'll still get some credit.