Land the Curiosity rover on Mars with the Kinect?

[dlavery]

Some people were wondering about the reference made during the Championship in St Louis about "using items from your FRC kit to share in the exploration of Mars by the Curiosity rover." Well, now the story is out.

http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/120716-mars-rover-landing-game-screenshot-hmed-453p.grid-5x2.jpg

To get gamers engaged with the Curiosity's travels, NASA teamed up with Microsoft to create the Mars Rover Landing game, available for download free via XBox Live (http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/). With this application, you can use the Kinect controller (the same one you got in the FRC kit) to simulate the entry, descent and landing of the Curiosity Mars rover in (almost) the same manner that the actual rover will land on August 6 (August 5 on the west coast).

Read the USA Today story here (http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/story/2012-07-16/nasa-mars-rover-game/56253212/1)

This is just one of several similar application developments that we have been working on to increase access to the Curiosity mission by the entire country. There is more to come. With these tools and applications, we want to entire country (and world) to come and explore Mars with us!

-dave

[MrForbes]

That's gotta be more fun than playing Lunar Lander on my Z80 "the digital group" computer

[ebarker]

That's gotta be more fun than playing Lunar Lander on my Z80 "the digital group" computer

Way too advanced. I had to play Lunar Lander on a Telex Teletypewriter connected to a mainframe.

[Richard Wallace]

I played LEM on USNA timesharing, summer of 1975. We had to load the program using paper tape.

[IndySam]

That's gotta be more fun than playing Lunar Lander on my Z80 "the digital group" computer

Way too advanced. I had to play Lunar Lander on a Telex Teletypewriter connected to a mainframe.

I played LEM on USNA timesharing, summer of 1975. We had to load the program using paper tape.

This is like a Monte Python sketch (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo)

[neshera]

Dave Lavery, JPL, NASA win!
Congratulations!
Very exciting to see Mr. Lavery in the mission control room - but where was your Hawaiian shirt?
This was exciting, thanks for making all of us proud to know you.

[rachelholladay]

You mean i can do something with the Kinect other than put large dents in wall with a robot? Rad..

(if 2009 was a Moon themed game then maybe 2013 should be Mars themed...?)

[Richard Wallace]

(if 2009 was a Moon themed game then maybe 2013 should be Mars themed...?)
Yes! :D