Angry Birds Space blasts off today (+video)
(Read article summary)Angry Birds Space is the newest addition to the popular Angry Birds line of mobile games.
Angry Birds Space, the latest installment in Rovio's best-selling puzzle game series, arrives today – with an extra boost from NASA.
In a preview video posted by Rovio (and embedded below), astronaut and engineer Don Pettit delivers a brief tutorial on the science behind the Angry Birds series, which debuted in early 2010, and went on to rack up hundreds of millions of downloads on iPhones, Androids, and Facebook.
"If you understand physics, it will allow you to go and get a neat job. Sort of like mine," Petit says, from his perch at the International Space Station, more than 240 miles above earth.
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