NASA Provides Films To Interactive Venture

NASA and a multimedia company called Dreamtime are teaming up to bring the most realistic, high-definition space experiences ever produced to your computer and TV set.

A partnership announced on Friday would give the ordinary person an opportunity to see what it is like to be strapped into seats on the shuttle and to ride into space in a rocket.

Dreamtime will equip space shuttles and the International Space Station with digital, high-definition cameras and microphones to record the unique experience of traveling in space.

VIDEO Space program fans will soon be able to experience rocket travel through their computers and televison sets: NASA and Dreamtime announce partnership

Visitors to the web site will be able to virtually visit the space station. In addition, NASA is giving 8 million feet of historic film and 40,000 hours of video to the venture that includes a web site and plans for high definition TV broadcasts.

The goal of the co-venture is to provide education and inspiration to anyone who has ever dreamed of flying beyond the stars.

Dreamtime will produce documentaries and work with high-powered Hollywood directors to make films. These projects will make money for the website, but NASA will not receive any of the profit. NASA sees this project as another step in turning over the space station to the private sector and saving taxpayers billions of dollars.

Beginning in six months, all of NASA's archives will be put on the Dreamtime web site. Normal resolution images will be free, but a charge will be made for images with better resolution.