“As Luo explains, one of JPL’s main goals is to build tools to control robots needed for space exploration. Seeing as the gaming industry is already rife with user-friendly controllers ripe for the plucking, it made sense to harness them for the job.”

I have a friend who recently started working at JPL. Despite the massive NASA cutbacks (even with a mostly replenished Planetary Exploration budget), he seems very enthused about the big shots they want to take. Europa or bust!