Space Shuttle: February 2009 Archives

credit Virtual Heroes / caption: Could this ascent vehicle be modelled after the famed DRM 5.0?

NASAWatch has linked to the first online reports about NASA's massively multiplayer online game, reported on by Hyperbola way back in January 2008, which we now know to be called Astronaut: Moon, Mars and Beyond and according to this website the game will have an Armageddon-style scenario (note: the above image is of a Mars mission)

The development team is crafting a series of events and missions that will start with the possibility of a near earth object impact hazard and expand to offer other reality-based challenges to gamers over time.

credit Whitehouse / caption: all is not well with the Obama's administration selection process

Hyperbola is hearing that the process to select a candidate for NASA administrator is not just being held up by the alleged opposition from members of Congress but in fact there are tensions much closer to the centre of government