Zack Crues on Space Exploration Vehicle Mockup

Zack Crues, the Space Exploration Vehicle modeling and simulation lead, talks to NASA Public Affairs Officer Brandi Dean about the importance of creating an immersive virtual reality environment for tests such as the simulated mission to an asteroid taking place at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

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Science & Technology

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• Zack Crues
• NASA
• asteroid

[stashpendowski]

thats really cool that they have a simulator combined with a real cabin that they live in. Its like an operational immersion. Im sure they are going to learn alot and plenty earlier enough to affect the hardware design. this is really good stuff.. why hasnt nasa done this kind of thing before? Whoever is leading this show is doing a great job.

[beviswalker1]

whats up with the suit hanging off the back

[beviswalker1]

thats a pretty wild looking vehicle. Whats going on with the suit hanging out the back???

[piepsi1]

I admire those engineers which build/create something which can't be tested in the _real_ environment before first use (esp. with human beings)! Using simulators et al is not really the same thing...

Great job, guys!

[Rohan419]

he's an modeller, they tend to be very intelligent and long winded

[AlexFictionFriction]

a rather long winded way of describing a simulator

[NvidiaTester]

Thats great guys! Hope to hear from you soon!