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
Link To Document :
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