Humans are always curious about space, the world beyond earth. We’ve always wondered what it would be like to step into space, the moon, planets. And also enthusiastic to know if there is life somewhere in space. From all these expectations and curiosity, we’ve come up with our platform by using NASA’s data. Which will help people to explore space just with their finger-tips. And at the same time make necessary resources with description so that everyone can know about space.

For the development of our AR and VR simulation app, we followed the "Reuse software development process". We downloaded some 3D models from NASA's official website and Unity asset store. Then we developed the apps in Unity.

We've used the following softwares and hardwares for the development:

Software's: 

Tools: Unity, C#, Unity Animator, Blender

Libraries: Vuforia SDK, Google VR

Hardware's:

Google cardboard, Smartphone

For the website part we have used PHP, MySQL, HTML,CSS to design an interactive website. And we also used NASA Data API in order to show different information about the space objects and our solar system.

The website is mainly divided into 4 sections.

Gaming(AR,VR app integrated with NASA’s 3d models)

Exploration(Planet, Rocket, Space Objects and Blackhole)

Research(Listed representation of NASA Data with description)

Sci-fi Movie Explanation(Explanation about the science and reality behind space movies)

The website also features a login system so that users will receive notification for upcoming events.

Nasa assets: 

• https://data.nasa.gov/browse?tags=national+geospatial+data+asset 

Nasa Research Data: 

• https://www.nasa.gov/open/researchaccess/nasa-data-portal

We’ve collected NASA’s research access information and also the current research access topics in order to present them on our website.

Nasa Mission Details: 

• https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html 

From this resource we collected the mission details from NASA’s website in order to enrich peoples knowledge about space.

Planet Facts: 

• https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/

We’ve collected the data of the planets of our solar system. We are showing the data on our website in a brief descriptive way. We’ve prepared our own database using these data. In the website there is also know more section which will redirect the users to NASA’s website.

Image Sources:  

• https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/iotd.html
• https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/index.html 

The images we’ve used in our website all are from these sites. We’ve used both png, jpg, jpeg files in our website to make it more resourceful. And to show different images with explanations about planets and space objects.

Regular updates:

• https://blogs.nasa.gov/ 

For the research section we’ve collected the daily blogs of NASA for making it more interactive. There is also know more option which redirects the user to the NASA blog page.

Solar System Nasa Data: 

• https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/our-solar-system/overview/
•  https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/earth/overview/

With this we collected solar system data to present on our website.

Nasa 3d Assets and Textures:

• https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/models
• https://www.nasa.gov/connect/sounds/index.html
• https://github.com/nasa/NASA-3D-Resources

With this we collected 3d models which we used to build our AR and VR app.

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NASA Data and Resources links:

Nasa assets: 

• https://data.nasa.gov/browse?tags=national+geospatial+data+asset 

Nasa Research Data: 

• https://www.nasa.gov/open/researchaccess/nasa-data-portal

Nasa Mission Details: 

• https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html 

Planet Facts: 

• https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/

Image Sources:  

• https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/iotd.html
• https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/index.html 

Regular updates:

• https://blogs.nasa.gov/ 

Solar System Nasa Data: 

• https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/our-solar-system/overview/
•  https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/earth/overview/

Nasa 3d Assets and Textures:

• https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/models
• https://www.nasa.gov/connect/sounds/index.html
• https://github.com/nasa/NASA-3D-Resources