August 5, 2008: DigitalSpace's work for HumanSpace in a contract to visualize the European Space Agency's Lunar Architecture. See HumanSpace site for more projects.

October 5, 2007: Design simulation (with NASA, DigitalSpace and DM3D Studios) of a human mission to an asteroid, as featured in a short movie on Space.com.

July 30 2007: DigitalSpace releases a design for a human mission to an asteroid. After six months of work, DigitalSpace today released a design visualization for a human mission to an asteroid (also known as a Near Earth Object or NEO). This work was done in support of an internal NASA feasibility study, although it is DigitalSpace's unique concept and contribution. Please see our site on the project which includes our press release, movies of the concept mission, images and description of the mission as well as many resources about organizations and individuals in the NEO community.

Special News Coverage:

This release has been covered by the following news organizations:

AOL featured the DigitalSpace design for a human mission to a NEO as story #1 on August 1, 2007.

Space.com highlighted the DigitalSpace design for a human mission to a NEO in a wide ranging, excellent interview by veteran space journalist Leonard David. See the narrated movie of our design simulation hosted by Space.com here.

CNET's News.com site covered the release with an extensive interview of DigitalSpace's founder and CEO Bruce Damer and NASA NEO expert and study group member David Morrison. See this story, How to land a spacecraft on an asteroid, by Stefanie Olsen, here.

The story was also picked up by USA Today and covered on MSNBC and on China View. We hope the story continues to circulate around the web and sparks discussion withing the space community and government.





April 2007: DigitalSpace founder Bruce Damer wrote four columns for the Terra Nova academic blog on virtual worlds about the history and evolution of social virtual worlds. The four columns are: Maze War, the first multi user 3D virtual world, next we have From Maze War to Habitat, Alphaworld and the mid-90s explosion of avatars, after this we have Worldstruck and other In-world terms, and lastly Meeting in the Ether.


March 2007: DigitalSpace founder Bruce Damer featured in stories in the news media including an interview in the Christian Science Monitor and the same story in USA Today (16 March, 2007) and in the Philadelphia Inquirer (18 March 2007) with a companion article here.


January 2007: DigitalSpace is selected to create design simulations of Lunar robotic excavator systems for NASA under contracts with sysRAND Corporation, National Security Corporation and Los Alamos National Laboratories.


January 2007: DM3D Studios were featured in Australian Anthill Magazine in a story about regional innovators. Click here to read the article Bull-ants: Regional Tech beyond Metropolis.

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