Recent content by Astmonaut

Wait, what's Mir's Phase One about? Is it from Core and Kvant-1 to Kristell?

I knew that when he said a "free trip to Cuba". However, I decided to play along and call it "hell" since Gitmo's prisons are wretched hives by themselves. :)

More like free trip to hell.

I'm sort of an alternate history geek so I decided to start up this thread. So, just like the real world, the Space Shuttle's first mission is delayed from 1978 to the first quarter of 1981. During the delay, NASA decides to ask the Soviet Union to have one of their astronauts "hitch a ride" on...

Since me and my dad are space enthusiasts, we are planning on bringing my family over to watch one of the last Delta-II launches before it retires. I'm definitely going to take photos of the launch close-up (since I'm a military dependent. They're allowed on base) and post it on the Orbiter...

Yep. Not to mention that "launching" isn't a simple task either. (Most add-ons are supplied with "P" launches or autopilot launches but some you have to do manually). I think that interplanetary travel is even harder than docking though, which I hope to finally learn for myself.

Well, sort of near Vandenberg (I actually live in San Diego to be honest). Anyway, while I'm not new to Orbiter 2010 (I first started playing with it when Orbiter 2010 was recently released in 2010), my interest has been resurged into this simulator and now I'm going to learn beyond my comfort...