Why NASA’s New Video Game Completely Misses the Point, Popular Mechanics “Which makes Moonbase Alpha all the more unfortunate. The game serves as an epitaph for what appears to be NASA’s lost decade. The agency failed to stay on time or on budget throughout the life of the Constellation program, its highest and most expensive priority. But while manned spaceflight foundered, unmanned exploration thrived. The modern-day equivalent of Aldrin and […]