Explore the International Space Station with Immersive VR Experience
This VR experience features realistic and intuitive navigation, helpful advice from Mission Control, and compelling and visceral science-related content.
Edited by EE Staff
Cool Stuff
Oct 28, 2025
Every person on the planet, young and old alike, has wondered about our place in the universe.
The idea of space creates a deep yearning for answers and experiences in all of us, and it serves as a common, unifying thread for humanity. NASA wanted to bring the magic of space travel to everyone and teamed up with Magnopus to bring Mission: ISS into reality and to help promote these common feelings through thrilling immersive technology. Mission: ISS lets users explore the International Space Station in detail to understand what it’s like to be an astronaut in a way that’s never before been possible.
Based on NASA models and honed with input from astronauts who have lived in space, Mission: ISS recreates the International Space Station in painstaking detail. Users can experience how to move and work in zero-gravity, use space tools, dock a space capsule, and take a spacewalk.
Real astronauts provide a sense of presence through instructional video clips. With strong STEM-related themes, anyone can take part in experiments and actual missions on the station.
Since the experience is fully immersive, users feel a sense of weightlessness that can only be felt in VR, similar to what astronauts feel—a fact that Mission: ISS’s astronaut advisors have confirmed. In fact, more than one astronaut said it was like making a return trip!
VR experiences are ideal for taking users to places that are too dangerous or too expensive to go. With that in mind, Mission: ISS was designed to remove those barriers—literally anyone with a VR headset can get a taste of space exploration.
Mission: ISS is a non-profit initiative. It is freely available on Meta’s Quest store and has been demonstrated at science exhibits, international conferences, fairs, and exhibitions across North America and Europe to wide acclaim. The experience has won multiple awards including those from the Television Academy, VR Awards, XR Awards, and was even nominated for an Emmy.
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