How Virtual Reality and Social Media Are Helping Buzz Aldrin and NASA Educate the Masses
Tech is breathing life into space travel at SXSW
The legendary astronaut has a helpful friend in VR.
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Space travel may have been at its buzziest in the late 1960s, when Buzz Aldrin—right behind colleague Neil Armstrong—became the second person to walk on the moon. Yet intergalactic topics seem to be making a notable comeback thanks in part to a few tech-minded developments, specifically NASA’s social media game and Aldrin’s leveraging of virtual reality.
