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I can give you some advice, but first you'll have to tell me all about your secret project. :lol:

I played X-Plane before I found Orbiter. In fact one of the reasons I tried Orbiter was seeing a comment that compared it (favorably) with X-Plane as a real-physics simulator.

I hope this doesn't violate the spirit of the thread This isn't a book, but a blog with images from early books about space travel. Maybe some of the images will inspire a vessel developer! http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/

Excel 2003 at work (on Windows XP) Excel 2008 for Mac and LibreOffice Calc at home

I'd like to reinforce two points already explicit or implicit in the earlier comments: 1. Orbiter is not the same as NASA. NASA's political/funding/planning problems don't mean anything to Orbiter. We can be pessimistic or optimistic about the prospects for NASA or any of the world's other...

Mac version? Now that the core has been separated from the graphics engine, is it feasible to port orbiter_ng to Mac OS X?

You betcha - here's one for O-F: http://web.mac.com/tigershark/spacemanspiff/Random/Entries/2006/5/25_Goodness%2C_put_on_some_sun_screen....html

Yes, I can see the album. Nice pics, and it looks like you're having fun!

Fascinating. I think I'll wait for the MFD.

I think you missed part of his message. He didn't say that anyone should die, or should want to die. He said, "Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life. ... Your time is...

Somewhat off-topic, but I hope close enough: Extrapolating forward in time, say 50-100 years, when many commercial spacecraft are cruising among the asteroids and visiting bases at Earth/Mars/Jupiter, how will they navigate? Surely they won't rely on Earth-based tracking stations, especially...

Yes, it's real. It's not all that popular in the US (or Europe, I believe), but very popular in Eastern Asia. Japan has many professional players, newspaper columns, etc., similar to chess in US/Europe. There are a few computer versions, to give you an adjustable (and patient) opponent, in case...

I've only played chess occasionally, and so never got very good at it. However, when I found the game of Go, I abandoned chess entirely (though I do like to look at chess sets, as sculptures). It has a much simpler board/pieces/rules, and yet an extremely rich set of strategies. Plus (this is...

This is all very interesting, and of course a lot of us hate change, but nobody has answered the most important question: How well does it run Orbiter?

That's nice, Ben.

We need a scenario for this flight - any volunteers?

Because it's ROCKET SCIENCE !!

I run Orbiter on a two-year-old MacBook Pro, using the Boot Camp facility to run Windows XP in a separate partition on the hard drive. I have to reboot, but it works perfectly. Assuming you have an Intel-based Mac, I recommend this approach. If you have a PowerPC Mac, you're out of luck. I've...

The precise date, no - but it's bound to be a Tuesday!

Digital Apollo I recently finished "Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight" by David Mindell. I highly recommend it, especially for descriptions of interactions between astronauts and computers during the Apollo landings, and how each was unique.