With Moonbase Alpha another childhood illusion is shattered - the life of an astronaut appears to be largely slow, dull and pretty repetitive. That's not to say that there aren't any exciting bits.

[Video:Moonbase Alpha trailer] They control an astronaut who must visit an equipmentshed to get tools such as wrenches and welding torch to fix the base. But theastronaut can only carry one tool ...

Back in 2010, NASA made a video game. It was called Moonbase Alpha, and it was meant to simulate what it would actually be like to maintain a lunar colony. Just two weeks after its launch ...

Last week a curious, free release popped up on Steam: Moonbase Alpha, a NASA-funded game where up to six players can team up in order to save a near-future Lunar base crippled by a meteor strike.

NASAmay not be sending astronauts back to the moon anytime this decade, but thespace agency hopes to give virtual explorers a sense of what life on the moonwould be like in a new computer game ...

In March of this year, he tweeted a supposed ad for SpaceX’s planned lunar travel that was, in fact, the trailer for “Destination Moonbase-Alpha,” a 1978 compilation movie editing episodes ...

Robot control is surprisingly nippy ... don't send anyone to space on the basis of their experiences with this. Moonbase Alpha is available as a free download from Steam for PC only.