When I was a kid, National Geographic dedicated over half of the December 1969 issue to the Apollo 11 mission. The article below,"Next Steps in Space", was written by Thomas O. Paine the administrator of NASA at the time. He describes NASA's plans at the time: a permanent space station in ...

FYI, this and the previous post are Apollo J missions are ideas that I posted on the Matrix forum for the base game, but they could be applied to the 2nd installment as well. Historically, great value was placed on building a pool of astronauts with space experience. Although all of the Mercury flig...

Here's a minor proposal for a couple of extra steps to be added to the Apollo "J" mission, to differentiate it more from the "Type G" mission. - Orbital Observation: Inserted between current EVA steps, to simulate CMP's observations from CSM. Animation could include the launching...

For the time frame of the 2nd installment, I would suggest 1970 - 1991, the end of the cold war. This would allow the same agency choices as the base game (US, USSR, or fictional GSA). (The post-Soviet era, with more international cooperation and the ISS, could be saved for the 3rd installment.) As ...