National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NASA City Airport Web Page

Challenge: Develop an xml backend and user interface as part of an outreach effort by NASA to make the general public aware of ways in which space exploration affects their daily lives at home, in their travels, and in the workplace.

Solution:  Assisting Woodpile Studios and Bully!, a 3D animation firm, The Sutter Group programmed a site previously hosted within the NASA.gov website. Viewers can navigate around two floating islands. Clicking on “NASA Home” reveals various rooms and all of the everyday products, appliances, etc. that were developed as a result of space technology. In “NASA City”, you can enter the airport, the hospital, factories and office buildings — again revealing all of the products, tools and machinery that had their beginnings in the space program.

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