Marsbook

"Marsbook" is a 1993 interactive CD-ROM commissioned by NASA and developed by Human Code, to show politicians their projections for the colonization of Mars. Based on SuperCard, it models NASA's proposed Mars habitat. The CD uses prerendered 3D graphics to allow users to virtually walk through a computer model of the habitat.^[1][2]

"Marsbook" won two New Media Invision Awards, as well as an award from Business Week.^[1] System requirements to run the simulation are a colour Macintosh II or greater, 8 megabytes of RAM, QuickTime, System 7.x, and a CD-ROM player.

See also

• Red Faction (video game) (2001 Video game set on Mars)

References

1. Gillespie, Spike (December 8, 1995). "Touring the Technology Factory". The Austin Chronicle. Archived from the original on November 11, 2013. Retrieved December 29, 2025.
2. "Award-winning interactive multimedia presentation for NASA now available on CD-ROM". Human Code. March 3, 1994. Archived from the original on May 17, 1997. Retrieved January 23, 2026.

Further reading

• Webster, John (December 1, 1993). "Next stop, Mars: multimedia technology guides NASA's vision of a space vehicle bound for the Red Planet". Computer Graphics World. Gale A14807873. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015.