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At NASA, we're excited to apply mixed-reality technologies to the challenges we're facing
in space exploration.
Through a collaboration with Microsoft, we're building applications to support engineers
responsible for the design and assembly of spacecraft, astronauts working on the International
Space Station, and scientists are now using our Mars tool, OnSight, in mission operations.
OnSight is a powerful tool for our scientists and engineers to explore Mars, but because
we always felt it shouldn't remain only within NASA, we''ve taken the core of OnSight and
made an amazing experience that allows the public to explore the red planet.
We call this new experience Destination: Mars.
Mars can be a lonely place, so we've added photo-real holographic captures of an astronaut
and a member of the Curiosity rover team to be our guides on this journey.
This gave us the opportunity to immortalize a hero.
Hi there, I'm Buzz Aldrin.
To help Buzz explain how we're doing science on Mars today is Curiosity rover driver Erisa
Hines.
Welcome to my office.
We can put the public, the rover and Erisa together at the exact place where Curiosity
made some it's most amazing discoveries.
We're looking forward to opening the Destination: Mars exhibit at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor
Complex in summer 2016.
We can't wait to share this journey with the world.
Let's go to Mars!