ScienceBoy
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I am sure some of you might remember playing an old moon lander game or two as a child, maybe even at school if you were lucky.
Well things have come a long way since then and I have recently purchased the most comprehensive space program game I have ever played.
At just £18 on Steam I thought what the hell, I had played the demo a while back and liked it but not enough to buy back then. Now it has progressed hugely in its variety of components and capability I thought it time to give it another shot.
So after briefly skimming the tutorials, I already knew most of how to play from the demo, I set about building my first space craft.
After some testing (three hours or explosions and crash landings in the sea) I managed to finally get an orbital test bet set up, in orbit and then successfully landed in the sea near the launch pad. Playing with a joystick is fun but most of my time was spent getting its sensitivity to my liking as well as understanding all the new parts.
I set myself a mission, put a satellite in orbit at 250km, sounds easy right? It wasn't too bad, first mission got a stable 250km orbit BUT I messed up the staging and the un-named probe blew itself to pieces after separating from the control module, not the best start.
I left the KSS Testbed II control module with astronaut to orbit at 120km, I can land him later.
KSS (Kerbal Space ship) Enturprize plus satellite Stargazer and another brave soul set off for a 260km orbit, 10km from the mess of the first...
All went well bar a few accidental separation units creating excess debris.
Here is the result:
Sadly I forgot about the first guy and I think he is still up there somewhere...
P.S sorry to all those who live on the main continent of the planet Kerbal regarding my bad habit of crashing debris into your countryside.
Well things have come a long way since then and I have recently purchased the most comprehensive space program game I have ever played.
At just £18 on Steam I thought what the hell, I had played the demo a while back and liked it but not enough to buy back then. Now it has progressed hugely in its variety of components and capability I thought it time to give it another shot.
So after briefly skimming the tutorials, I already knew most of how to play from the demo, I set about building my first space craft.
After some testing (three hours or explosions and crash landings in the sea) I managed to finally get an orbital test bet set up, in orbit and then successfully landed in the sea near the launch pad. Playing with a joystick is fun but most of my time was spent getting its sensitivity to my liking as well as understanding all the new parts.
I set myself a mission, put a satellite in orbit at 250km, sounds easy right? It wasn't too bad, first mission got a stable 250km orbit BUT I messed up the staging and the un-named probe blew itself to pieces after separating from the control module, not the best start.
I left the KSS Testbed II control module with astronaut to orbit at 120km, I can land him later.
KSS (Kerbal Space ship) Enturprize plus satellite Stargazer and another brave soul set off for a 260km orbit, 10km from the mess of the first...
All went well bar a few accidental separation units creating excess debris.
Here is the result:
Sadly I forgot about the first guy and I think he is still up there somewhere...
P.S sorry to all those who live on the main continent of the planet Kerbal regarding my bad habit of crashing debris into your countryside.
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