Crowdsource Seeks To Provide Mars Virtual Reality Environment

HeroX concept of Mars exploration
Credit: HeroX
HOUSTON—With support from HeroX, Epic Games and Buendea, NASA has launched the first in a two-phase crowdsourcing competition to develop a Mars virtual reality testbed to help prepare for human expeditions to the red planet. The cash prize purse for the two phases of the “Mars XR Operations Support...
Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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