NASA unveils educational games

Geeky Gadgets reports.

The iPad game puts you in the position of an air traffic controller for Sector 33, where you must merge the arriving planes into a single traffic stream as they pass over Modesto, California, on the western edge of your sector.

In Sector 33, planes must be properly spaced and arrive over Modesto as soon as possible. Every minute you delay a plane during the traffic rush, that delay is passed on to all the other planes flying behind it. Although time is of the essence, to assure safety, the planes must never violate minimum spacing requirements. The Sector 33 app can be downloaded free of charge from the app store.

The Facebook diversion takes an easily opposite citation and is a multiplayer diversion called Space Race Blastoff that asks an array of 10 multiple-choice questions, New Gadget News says.

Space Race Blastoff is NASA's first multi-player online game, but the agency has a history of adeptly using social media to connect with the public, Mashable notes.

In September, NASA announced plans to invite 150 of its Twitter followers to a “tweetup” event at a live spacecraft launch. A number of astronauts have active Twitter accounts as well; Ron Garan, or Astro_Ron, has more than 88 000 followers.