Shuttle Commander comes from Immersive VR Education, an Irish studio with an established track record in historically grounded VR experiences: Apollo 11 VR put users on the surface of the Moon, and Titanic VR placed them inside the wreck. Shuttle Commander brings the same philosophy to the Space Shuttle programme, with a specific and well-chosen focus: the Hubble Space Telescope missions. Rather than attempting to cover the entire 135-mission, 30-year Shuttle era in a single experience, the developers have zeroed in on one of the programme's most significant and scientifically consequential stories.

Players experience the deployment and servicing of Hubble from the cockpit of Discovery, using original NASA cockpit audio recorded during the actual missions. The Canadarm — the remote manipulator system that was one of the Shuttle's defining engineering achievements — is operable in real time, used to capture and manoeuvre the telescope during servicing. After the orbital sections, the experience moves to a physics-based landing simulation at three authentic landing sites: Kennedy Space Centre, White Sands, and Edwards Air Force Base. A third mode uses data from nearly 120,000 stars to produce science visualisation segments exploring the universe's structure and the life cycle of stars.