{"id":349073,"date":"2010-02-22T08:11:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T13:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5477076"},"modified":"2010-02-22T08:11:56","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T13:11:56","slug":"first-official-nasa-iphone-game-is-science-fiction-iphone-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/349073","title":{"rendered":"First Official NASA iPhone Game Is Science Fiction [IPhone App]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/02\/500x_nasa-lunar-rover.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\" \/>NASA has released their first iPhone game. It&#8217;s called the NASA <i>Lunar<\/i> Electric Rover Simulator and, instead of making me happierer than a kid in a candy store wearing a Batman cape, reading the description makes me sad:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Welcome to the NASA Lunar Electric Rover (LER) Simulator. You don&#8217;t need a driver&#8217;s license, but you still need to buckle up as the LER Simulator gives you a glimpse of what it might be like to support the activities of a functioning Lunar Outpost. Get busy. You never know if your skills here will become a major part of the NASA Astronaut application process in the future.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\ngawkerGallery(5477075,4,'');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Sadly, and since <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5461806\/obama-cancels-kennedys-dream\">there are not going to be <i>any<\/i> NASA mission to the moon<\/a>, we know that these skills would be useless. Unless that, by &#8220;<a class=\"autolink\" title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #nasalunarelectricroversimulator\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/nasalunarelectricroversimulator\/\">NASA Lunar Electric Rover Simulator<\/a>&#8221; they really mean &#8220;Soyuz Spacecraft Push Some Russian Buttons Simulator.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In any case, go to the App Store and enjoy the <i>free<\/i> game, because the real thing is not going to happen. 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It&#8217;s called the NASA Lunar Electric Rover Simulator and, instead of making me happierer than a kid in a candy store wearing a Batman cape, reading the description makes me sad: Welcome to the NASA Lunar Electric Rover (LER) Simulator. You don&#8217;t need a driver&#8217;s license, but you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1548,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1548"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}