Downloading the Stars: The Future of Space Exploration

Robbie Schingler

NASA Ames Research Center

Overview

• Context

• Technology Trends

• Future Directions

Context

Technology Trends

Internet Beginning

Nodes 1971

BBS / text based experience

2D - One to Many

Dotcom Bubble

Moore’s Law

peer to peer

User Generated Content

Blogs

Internet 2005

Opensource

Google Earth

Mash-ups

Flight Simulators

3D on-line, virtual worlds

2003

MMOG

2005

1992Snowcrash

1992

The Space Program

Data

WorldWind

2004

Science Visualiztion

Open source - NOSA

Collaborative Analysis - Stardust@home

BrahmsVE: Human-Machine Agent Based Work Practice Simulations: “Mars on

Earth”

Google Moon - NASA as a Platform

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Participatory Exploration

Collaborative Tools

CosmosCode -- opensource

NGEC-II: “Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Lunar Development”Contact: jculler@arc.nasa.gov

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http://colab.arc.nasa.gov