Space Race Blastoff: NASA launches its first game to Facebook[Gaming]

This was reported in the blog of the NASA, Space Race Blastoff being already available in apps.facebook.com/spacerace

This is the first online multiplayer game to test knowledge of the players in the program space, with questions like: Who was the first American to walk in space? Who launched the first liquid fuel rocket?.

The history of NASA, technology, science... etc. players win, in responding, virtual badges(badges) representing NASA astronauts, spacecraft and celestial bodies.

NASA chose to make the game available through Facebook to take advantage of the large audience of social network and allow players to compete against each other. People can also play solo.

Once in the game, players create an avatar and answer 10 multiple choice questions. Each correct answer earns 100 points, 20 bonus points for the player to respond first.