3D Simulation of Space Shuttle Mission Created 15 years ago2009-05-14 01:04:39 UTC by Tito

Well, like many of you already know, a lot of eyes in the media are pointed towards space right now, specifically on the space shuttle's very risky repair mission of the Hubble telescope. If you are one to be interested on this event, then you might be very interested on the following:DigitalSpace.com, a provider of online 3D simulations has joined forces with NASA and has come up with an online, interactive 3D simulation of the space shuttle on a repair mission to the Hubble Telescope. You can move around it. Zoom in, and even look for missing items for the astronauts. There is sound so you can hear the astronauts? conversations.

To quote: ?Just in time for this week's Shuttle servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, our Hubble Educational Spacewalk Simulation (ESS) built for NASA over the past year is live and can be downloaded and installed from NASA.gov! We have an easy link to the NASA-hosted simulation at the top of our homepage at: http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/spacesuits/simulation/index.html

?In "ESS" you can "be the astronaut" going through three major spacewalk tasks to replace components on Hubble. Hear the astronauts? voices (from real training), zoom around the shuttle/hubble and Earth at high speed, get info on the procedures, and look for a series of "lost" objects in the cargo bay. Its a great experience for K-12 students & educators, museums and just plain space fans. This is a windows-only version that requires a good 3D card (not basic chipsets). Other OS versions are in the works.?It is packaged as an installer that puts the program onto your PC and is an approximately 30 meg download. With a game like experience, and excellent graphics and modeling, all in all this is a fun experience and worth checking out.

As a space shuttle "geek", i find that pretty intesting.

But i think i prefer Space Shuttle Mission 2007, which is a space shuttle simulator in which you experience and replay many historic shuttle missions such as STS-1, the maiden flight of the shuttle, STS-8, the first nighttime launch, STS-31, the launch of Hubble, STS-401, the contingency mission for STS-125 (which is currently in progess) and many more mission, all from the T-01:30:00 mark to wheelstop at landing. Every aspect of flying the space shuttle is covered in this simulator, as you can flick every switch, button, knob, lever and the like on the cockpit instruments panels.

If you're into NASA and especially the shuttle, i'd check it out. SSM07 is however a commercial product...

Check it out at http://www.space-shuttle-mission.com/
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Mission_2007

Check out the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HrwIRdVPqc

As for this "mini" simulator, i pass, as STS-125 will most certainly be added to the game as a playable mission in a future service pack.

I was kinda disappointed that you don't truely "experience" it, you just kinda watch it, like a interactive movie, still neat nonetheless.

EDIT: muzz, add me on steam, you're going to guide me through this whole space shuttle 2007 thing, i can't find a single manual that makes half sense to me, and videos that got taken down don't help much either.

Just follow the on-screen instructions and download the Quick Start Manual.

That's the problem; I don't have any on-screen instructions, i have a camera, i can change to cocpit, exterior view ect, but that's it, i can change switches and stuff, but i don't have any instructions whatsoever :S (If it helps i'm trying to launch it)

There's an option in the ingame menu that enables it. I don't remember the name.

"Help"?

Help what?

I think he means that the option you mentioned was probably called "help".