What does it take to land on Eve and return? Although I did this previously, its time I revisited this challenge since we now have access to new parts and Docking is now an option. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7D-z3zxwl8
I'm running into political problems with potential wars, alliances make obvious invasions a bit of a political risk, and we've agreed to a truce by former Bakatta horde neighbour.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV3OkdlOabc
With a title like 'Space Food Truck' you can bet there's some strange genre mashups going on, but to add to the mix this is a 4 player cooperative card game played on a computer.
It's also quite addictive, in a similar way to FTL.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wxFxVHjOvI
I spent a lot of time building things, it's quite fun to bring them all back to the ground and let deadly reentry have its way with this.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Vu6vPytoQQ
For some rockets and spacecraft the crew escape system was via an ejection seat, sometimes custom built for the task, sometimes adapted from an existing seat designed for a high performance plane.
Here's a great NASA paper on the Gemini ejection seat:
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19670019706/downloads/19670019706.pdf
For a more general overview this website has collected a lot of good information
http://www.ejectionsite.com/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57f2Vl1Gmqg
Last night we accidently paid tribute to Gerry Anderson, Arrested Development and then mined some rocks in Rebel Galaxy.
http://twitch.tv/szyzyg
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzbaFaguhIE
An over ambitious game which lets you fly space fighters, land on a planet, shoot people in a FPS and even command giant starships. A game of grand scale developed using the best technology available to the developers, lead by a personality who's name is known throughout the space sim world.
Trying to actually give it a chance, after all many of the bugs should be fixed after 10 years. Then again, I'm afraid that if I reletlessly mocked it like everyone else that I'd incur the wrath of Derek.
Available for free on Steam if you dare
http://store.steampowered.com/app/345580/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJXBn4TJb2g
Donate to the Campaign to reboot ISEE-3 - http://www.rockethub.com/42228
ISEE-3 was a spacecraft launched in 1978 which originally examined the solar wind and plasma environments around the edges of the Earth-Moon system. In the Early 80's some fancy orbital mechanics and a lunar gravity assist was used to put the spacecraft into deep space to encounter a couple of comets. Now 30 years later it's coming back to Earth and could use some more orbital mechanics trickery to bring it back into earth's orbit, the only problem is that the technology required to talk to the spacecraft has been 'retired'. So a team at Skycorp is racing against time to build a replacement and command the spacecraft back into a captured orbit.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4D6pRT04PY
The first Beta release for Elite: Dangerous 2.3 has been made available to beta backers. The main focus of 2.3 is the commanders:
* A new character generation system has been added which lets you sculpt your character's appearance
* Up to 3 players can now share the cockpit of a single ship, working together as a crew.
* New 3rd person camera to provide even more options to take pictures of Asps in front of things.
* Lots of new models of things in space - Asteroid Stations, Megaships and more.
As of right now the multi crew feature has been temporarily disabled so I look at the other, mostly cosmetic changes.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN7eZfxCX6s
Jeb's Cheap Sheep experiments push him all the way to new frontiers and a rich investor demands a tour of the space center.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aSHHDM4PaY