Design Simulation in Support of NASA's Robotic and Human Lunar Exploration Program

DigitalSpace Corporation has been building an open source real-time 3D collaborative design engineering and training platform called Digital Spaces (DSS) in support of NASA’s Exploration Vision. Real-time 3D simulation has reached a level of maturity where it is capable of supporting mission engineering design and operations using off-the-shelf game chipsets and open source physics and rendering technologies. This paper will illustrate several examples of state-of-the-art real-time design simulation utilizing DSS for the upcoming NASA lunar robotic and human exploration programs.