NASA has announced that after "extensive review by internal and external experts," the Learning Technologies and the Innovative Partnership Program Office has invited three proposal teams to Goddard Space Flight Center to give presentations to essentially "pitch" for the opportunity to make a massively multiplayer educational game to " enhance real world education of teens in high school and college, in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields."

The selected proposal teams are Mindark; Saber Astronautics, Nocturnal Entertainment, and Big World; and Virtual Heroes and Project Whitecard.

Full details of the project can be found at the NASA website – we particularly recommend downloading the linked PDF, which includes a great deal of pertinent information.

"We are thrilled and honored to present Entropia Universe to NASA and to have been selected from over 100 interested parties which were present at the NASA MMO Workshop in April. It is an acknowledgement of our concept and progress, and shows the versatility of the platform we have spent a decade developing," says MindArk CEO Jan Welter Timkrans.