NASA Launches Moonbase Alpha

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday July 6, 2010 @08:26AM from the to-boldly-grind dept.

Several readers have sent word that today NASA launched Moonbase Alpha, an online game with single- and multi-player capability that "allows participants to step into the role of an exploration team member in a futuristic 3-D lunar settlement." The game is available now through Steam for free. Moonbase Alpha was built as a precursor to an upcoming NASA MMO called Astronaut: Moon, Mars & Beyond, and they hope it will be "a proof of concept to show how NASA content can be combined with a cutting-edge game engine to inspire, engage and educate students about agency technologies, job opportunities and the future of space exploration."

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VR jobs of the future by RichMan · 2010-07-06 08:31 · Score: 2, Interesting

8 second lag is pretty bad, but this can be viewed as a precursor to jobs of the future where basement dwellers driver loaders on the moon.
Re:Please... by IANAAC · 2010-07-06 10:36 · Score: 2, Interesting

While I disagree with that particular plan, it would seem that the Examiner generally is not favorable to Obama's administration.
And just reading the comments section of your referenced article, it looks like the Examiner's readership downright hates Obama.
I don't know anything about the fairly new owners of the paper (Clarity Media Group) though, to know if that's the paper's objective or not. It certainly comes across that way, glancing at some other headlines.