[DS-News] Oct 2007: Human Asteroid Mission, DSS 1.0 release coming!

[Bruce Damer]

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Dear subscribers to DigitalSpace News (welcome new members in 2007), 
it's an exciting time here at DigitalSpace, including:

1. DigitalSpace's concept and design simulation for a Human Mission 
to a Near Earth Object (NEO, or asteroid), done in support of a NASA 
feasibility study, has been all over the news media since the summer 
and now a special movie of the design is being featured on Space.com. 
See this narrated movie that depicts a scenario for crew making a 
"soft docking and tether" on the surface of one of these enigmatic 
objects in our solar system:
http://www.space.com
if it is off the homepage, see:
http://www.space.com/php/video/player.php?video_id=NEOnauts2
Watch for this design in a story in the November issue of Popular 
Science magazine.
See the full description of the DigitalSpace "NEO Mission" and all 
other news coverage at:
http://www.digitalspace.com/projects/neo-mission/index.html

2. Years in the making, DigitalSpace's open source 3D platform, 
DigitalSpaces (DSS), is going out to the world in 1.0 release (with 
documentation, tutorials and a really cool demo space) at the end of 
November. Designed and built by our superb crew at DM3D Studios Pty, 
in Maffra, Australia, DSS is perhaps the world's leading open source 
3D simulation platform with a comprehensive architecture for physics, 
plug-ins, sound, GUIs, multi-user, and scripting through Python. In 
its beta development phase, DSS has been used to create two dozen 
space, industrial simulation and medical applications. We are seeking 
research, academic and commercial partners to take DSS out into many 
different applications. It is our hope that DSS will become a "Linux" 
of high performance real-time 3D simulations and gaming applications. 
Read more about DSS in its pre-release state at:
http://www.digitalspaces.net/

3. All other DigitalSpace News is available on our site, including...
Drive some of our newest simulations (lunar excavators and more!) at:
http://www.digitalspace.com/projects/showcase.html
The latest News is at:
http://www.digitalspace.com/news/index.html
and the latest publications, including an article on the origins and 
evolution of virtual worlds is at:
http://www.digitalspace.com/papers/index.html

4. And last but not least, hear Bruce Damer, DigitalSpace CEO and 
founder, speak to the future of space exploration and "reality based" 
approaches, on "The Space Show" at:
http://www.thespaceshow.com/detail.asp?q=799

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