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NASA seeks volunteers for yearlong Mars simulator mission

NASA is looking for four people to spend a year living in a simulated version of Mars, the administration announced Tuesday. The mission, set to kickoff spring 2025, aims to shape the agency’s plans ...
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Tiltrotor Twice as Fast as the Black Hawk Now Testing in World's Largest Flight Simulator

They call it the Vertical Motion Simulator (VMS), and by all accounts, it is the world's largest flight simulator. Installed in a ten-story tower at the NASA Ames Simulation Lab in Silicon Valley, the ...
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SGI、NASAにプロセッサ1万240個のスパコン「宇宙探査シミュレータ」納入

米Silicon Graphics（SGI）は7月27日、NASAのプロジェクト「Project Columbia」の基盤システムに同社の「SGI Altix」が選ばれたと発表した。 Project Columbiaでは、Itanium 2プロセッサ512個を積んだSGI Altixシステム20台（総プロセッサ数1万240個）と、500TバイトのSGI InfiniteStorageを ...
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NASA Holds Mars VR Simulator Scenario Building Contest

NASA will hold a contest on the theme of scenario construction of 'Mars XR Operations Support System', an environmental simulator on Mars. The total prize money is 70,000 dollars (about 9 million yen) ...