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NASA’s MMO Gets Off the Ground, Demo by Year’s End — First Screens

Last April, some considered NASA foolhardy for expecting any game developer to build an educational MMO without millions of dollars in government funding. Today, Big Download reports that NASA has the manpower; the technology; and a very ambitious piece of edutainment well underway.

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Why NASA is Building an MMO

After GameCyte discovered last week that NASA's upcoming massively multiplayer game was still on solid financial footing, we didn't expect to hear word from NASA Learning Technologies until mid-June, the deadline for interested developers to submit their game proposals. Thankfully, we were wrong; and now GameSpot has an excellent interview with project manager Daniel Laughlin, [...]

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NASA Asking For Free MMO? Hardly.

When Second Life Herald reported that NASA had lost funding for its upcoming educational MMO yet continued to seek game developers willing to work for free, we became curious. Why would NASA shoot themselves in the foot, yet continue to hobble along as if it never happened? But we soon found out the entire story [...]

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