Game On: NASA Advances Virtual Cockpit for Moon Landings

View footage from the research aircraft during the recent flight demonstration of the Advanced Cockpit Evaluation System.

Read about this advancement here:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/constellation/main/virtual_cockpit.html

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Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Constellation
• nasa
• space
• apollo
• lunar
• exploration
• virtualreality
• moon
• cockpit
• flight
• spaceflight

[borski88]

he went off track, better sharpen thous skills before you head to the the moon

[heroineworshipper]

They're probably using Java3D. That's what all the big aerospace contractors have on their job openings. It makes it twice as complicated to pull off video textures & obsolete looking than it would be in Java/OpenGL or even better, C++.

[smoothvirus]

ooo.. you're right, Orbiter is more realistic! :P

[Jnagwet]

This is not Orbiter. It looks quite neat though. But why does the Earth rotate when you turn the spacecraft?

[smoothvirus]

looks like Orbiter Spaceflight Simulator...