Microsoft have teamed up with NASA to bring you unprecedented access to the space shuttle Endeavour using the power of Photosynth. You can see three-dimensional environments of preparations for the launch, with Endeavour on the launch pad, interior and surrounding area of the Vehicle Assembly Building. Thousands of photos intertwine to provide three dimensional, 360 degree perspectives of the shuttle. Photosynth takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a reconstructed three-dimensional space.

Website: Microsoft Photosynth

NASA and Microsoft Press Release

NASA, Microsoft Launch Collaboration with Immersive Photography

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/—On Monday, NASA and Microsoft Corporation of Redmond, Wash., released an interactive, 3-D photographic collection of the space shuttle Endeavour preparing for its upcoming mission to the International Space Station. Endeavour is scheduled to launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, Aug. 8, at 6:36 p.m. EDT.

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“This collaboration with Microsoft gives the public a new way to explore and participate in America’s space program,” said William Gerstenmaier, NASA’s associate administrator for Space Operations, Washington. “We’re also looking into using this new technology to support future missions.”

The NASA collections were created in collaboration between Microsoft’s Live Lab, Kennedy and NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.

Microsoft Live Labs is an applied research organization focused on the incubation of innovative, Internet technologies to improve and accelerate the next evolution of Microsoft’s Internet products and services.

For more information about space shuttle Endeavour’s STS-118 mission, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle

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