DocumentCode
965202
Title
What goes up [Engineering lunar colonies]
Author
Shkolyar, Svetlana
Volume
3
Issue
13
fYear
2008
Firstpage
19
Lastpage
21
Abstract
The article presents the Lunar Boom Town, a virtual reality game endorsed and funded by NASA. Lunar Boom Town is an interdisciplinary concept that promotes the exchange of open information in an effort to understand the details of successful space colonisation in terms of technology, business, environmental sustainability, and policy. It was created by the participants of Wikiversity - a project developed by Wikimedia.
Keywords
Moon; aerospace computing; computer games; virtual reality; Lunar Boom Town; Moon; NASA; Wikiversity; space colonisation; virtual reality game;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Engineering & Technology
Publisher
iet
ISSN
1750-9637
Type
jour
Filename
4659342
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