Users will be able to listen in on Mission Control, see the landscape of Mars in 3D from a future Mars lander and watch a Shuttle launch beamed right to a handheld device. To us, space is the great adventure, and this is the perfect marriage of high tech and high emotion. The opportunity to educate and excite is at the heart of this venture. The NASA-Dreamtime partnership will also provide the agency with HDTV capability that will give NASA engineers and scientists the most detailed look ever at Shuttle flight operations and at scientific experiments conducted on the Shuttle and on the International Space Station. In addition to other data collection methods, exact and precise digital images will further research capabilities.
Education plays a prominent role throughout the agreement.
Educational content planned in the documentaries and TV broadcasts will be linked to educational modules in the portal. This partnership intends to explain the complexities of space in an interesting, entertaining and educational way. The portal's invigorating content will also include space topic bulletin boards, educational activities and games, chat rooms and e-cards. Carleton Ruthling will serve as Dreamtime's president and chief operating officer. Nancy Conrad, widow of former Apollo astronaut Pete Conrad, is the first person to join Dreamtime's Board of Directors.