Ok engine stop...ACA out of detent...we copy you on the forum, Eagle.

[annoluce]

Hi there,
I'm Max, 42 yo, from Rome Italy.
As you can imagine from the title, I've always been fascinated from the Apollo epic period, which I missed slightly being born in 1971, but I console myself thinking that while I was a little baby the J missions were landing on the moon.
I'm a (former) aerospace engineer, but I work as a manager in an ICT Company. I know, long story. I've worked for a period in the aerospace industry, being involved in the composite structure design of the 2d stage solid propellant rocket motor for the VEGA launcher. It was quite some time ago. I was happy to see that my colleagues succeeded in launching the vehicle after 15/20 years of design and development and I'm glad to have contributed to this endeavour. In life, "Tranquillity base" is not something you achieve one shot, but rather a...dynamic equilibrium.
But now...Orbiter. I approached this sim some time ago and now I'm back.
I'm not prone to look back at the past, I just want to have fun reproducing 60s space race missions. I think it was just an amazing era. It was just something ripped out from 21 century and injected in the sixties.

Max over (for now)

 

[IronRain]

I just want to have fun reproducing 60s space race missions. I think it was just an amazing era. It was just something ripped out from 21 century and injected in the sixties.

Indeed an amazing era! One of my favourites as well

 

[PhantomCruiser]

You're just a bit younger than I am, I'll be 45 soon. I remember vividly the Skylab missions, and my mother told me I watched the Apollo moon missions sitting in the floor wearing a diaper (this, I do not however remember).

I think you may have found a home here.
http://www.acsoft.ch/AMSO/amso.html
[ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=3556"]Skylab1973 v2.1[/ame]
[ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=3555"]Skylab1980[/ame]
[ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=6394"]Skylab B[/ame]
[ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=6423"]Skylab B missions 2 (SL7) and ATM B[/ame]
[ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=6410"]Skylab B missions (SL5 & SL6) and AMU v2[/ame]
[ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=6433"]Skylab B missions 3 (SL8 and SL9)[/ame]

And much, much more.

And, Welcome to the forums!

 

[Ripley]

Ciao annoluce, benvenuto su OF!
I'm from Rome too!

I like your nick (lightyear in English)

 

[annoluce]

Thank you for welcoming me.
I tried a few scenarios from AMSO already and I'm having terrible fun!

 

[n122vu]

to Orbiter-Forum!

I too was born a few years too late to see the Apollo missions myself (1975), but am also immensely fascinated by it.

For me, Orbiter has been a great way to experience the magic of those years, and has greatly increased my respect for the work the brave astronauts and members of NASA did during that time.