Some great ideas on this thread. Also, it is refreshing to see the Devs so involved with the community. I specially like Kalesin's notion of a more flexible mission creator. Sounds like the Devs see the potential as well. My input would be for the Devs to decide early-on whether they're going to be ...

I definitively have to agree that NASA has an advantage, in the sense that their projects generally fulfill more objectives and thus give more prestige. Also, their craft break less than the Soviets for comparable reliability levels. With that said, though, I have beaten NASA to the moon with the So...

Hi, Here is a chart from the wiki article on "Space Race." http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Space_Race_1957-1975_black_text.png/1280px-Space_Race_1957-1975_black_text.png If that's a little too dry, you can always watch the BBCs excellent miniseries "Space Race...

First of all, great game. This is easily my second pick on non-combat space games after KSP. Second of all, you should have called this game "Buzz Aldrin's Praying Simulator," as I start praying uncontrollably every time a yellow light starts blinking! Seriously folks, the game has a way w...

The best I've managed to do was Q3 1969 on Buzz Hard with the GSA I went with the Gemini Direct Ascent option as it requires the least amount of component development. It has the added value of transferring quite a bit of the orbital Gemini capsule's reliability to the DA Gemini at project start. I ...