NASA selects Canadian firms to build Mars-based online game

NASA is banking on a team that includes two Canadian firms to develop an online multi-player game that could rekindle the public's fascination with space and perhaps nurture the next generation of astronauts.
11/21/2011 5:00:00 PM By: Nestor E. Arellano

 

Two Canadian technology companies are developing a Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) game about space colonization for a project commissioned by National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA).  

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