NASA Announces Agreements With 3 MMO Firms
NASA To Sign Agreement With Three Companies to Participate in a Massively Multiplayer Gaming Initiative
“Officials from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are finalizing negotiations for a Space Act Agreement (SAA) with three gaming companies whose joint proposal for a massively multiplayer online (MMO) game has been selected for collaborative development. The three companies – Project Whitecard, Inc., Virtual Heroes, Inc., and Information In Place/WisdomTools – teamed up to create a proposal for “Astronaut: Moon, Mars, and Beyond,” a game concept developed for NASA’s MMO gaming initiative, which is designed to increase student interest in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) subjects and career fields.”