NASA: Games can play major roles in space exploration

Medium can support efforts in communication and robotics, says JPL's Jeff Norris

Developers and games can play major roles in space exploration, says NASA’s Jeff Norris.
In a new interview with Develop, the manager of the planning and execution systems section at the Jet Propulsion Lab said games can play a part in communicating the space agency’s missions and using game technologies to control robots.

He added that games had particularly become a very important medium for NASA’s ambitions to share its discoveries and space exploration with the world.
“There are two major roles for games in space exploration,” said Norris.
“One is as a medium for communication and sharing our missions. Part of NASA’s core mission is to share our exploration with the world. Games have turned out to be a very important medium for doing that. But then, of course, the second application is using the gaming technologies themselves to control robots in space exploration.”

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