For All to Fly Along on Space Missions.
Nasa is going to build a realistic training environment BBC reports. The US space agency is exploring the possibility of developing a massively multiplayer online (MMO) game for the inspiring the next generation of Nasa employees. The virtual world would be aimed at students and would "simulate real Nasa engineering and science missions".
"We at Nasa are working hard to create opportunities for what I might call participatory exploration," the director of the project, Simon Worden, has said.
"We are looking at how this island can be a portal for all to fly along on space missions," he told delegates at the National Space Society's (NSS) conference last year.
"When the next people step onto the surface of the Moon in a little over a decade, your avatar could be with them," he said.
Other organisations such as the US armed forces already use online gaming as a recruitment tool".
