Experience how to be an astronaut with this app
What's the story
Finnish space start-up Space Nation, in collaboration with US space agency NASA, has released a mobile app called Space Nation Navigator.
The app allows users to train like an astronaut through fun quizzes, educational tools, exercises, daily updating missions, and games in beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels.
The app is currently only available on Android and will soon come to iOS.
Details
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The app is separated into four sections: Base, Missions, Profile, and Shop. Under Base, you'll find space-related educational articles and podcasts.
Under Missions, you can play all kinds of games and score points.
Under Profile, you can track your weekly points, weekly rank, all-time rank, badges, the level of training you are at, and the leader-board with your score and the top scorers.
Procedure
App features mind games, physical fitness challenges
Users can train in three core areas: body, mind, and social.
The challenges are designed to test your cognitive and social skills like problem-solving and managing a crisis.
The app not only teaches you the science behind space travel but also features physical challenges to make your body space-ready.
By the end of each week, your score gets cleared.
Prizes
And here is why we've been emphasizing on good scores
They can make you eligible for winning four free tickets to Iceland to tour its moon-like landscapes and explore where the Apollo astronauts trained.
Further, after three 12-week cycles, Space Nation will select 100 trainees for a real-life training camp.
Of them, 12 will be chosen for a more intensive 10-week training camp in Iceland. Lastly, one person will win a trip to space.
Ultimate Win
You can win an expenses-paid trip to space in 2019
Mazdak Nassir, co-founder of Space Nation, said, "Space Nation does not run any rockets or spaceships. We collaborate with different space companies, several of which are expected to launch their first commercial space flight this year or in 2019."
"The selected candidate will go as the first Space Nation Astronaut with one of them. The first flight in 2019 will be suborbital," he added.