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NASA tries to lure kids with space communications simulation
March 10, 2010 |11:37 | Gossips By : Team X
NASA on Tuesday rolled out an interactive computer simulation of communications with space shuttles, the International Space Station, the Hubble telescope, Mars rovers and more.
"The elaborate space communications networks that connect scientists and engineers with NASA's spacecraft is essential to all of NASA's missions and can be a challenging concept to comprehend," Barbara Adde.
A policy and strategic communications manager for the Office of Space Communications and Navigation at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., said in a news release.
"This simulation helps explain this complex infrastructure in an engaging way by using an interactive 3-D game." The simulation of NASA's Space Communication and Navigation (SCaN) system is "an effort to excite young people about space and NASA's missions," the space agency said.
"Making this interactive simulation available to young people is important and may lead them to consider a career in engineering, science or information technology as it relates to space," Chris C. Kemp, chief information officer at NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., said. "NASA is embracing the fact that programs like this help convey NASA's message to people who respond well to virtual and online learning environments." I checked it out and, while it's not as engaging as "Halo," it is more educational.
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