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On this day 12 April 1961 the bravest man ever was launched into Earth Orbit on a ballistic missile and inside a round metal ball called Vostok I and thereby heralded the beginning of Manned Space Flight.

Pure nostalgia ! Way back in 1963 Roberta Leigh broke away from Gerry Anderson of Fireball XL5 fame and created her own puppet series called Space Patrol It featured captain Larry Dart patrolling space in a Galasphere 347 . This Galasphere is an amazing space craft and it would be great fun to...

Is there any way to change the fuel levels by increasing the amount of fuel in a space vehicle in the latest orbiter sim? Kind regards

I don`t know if it is me and my computer system (high end 64 windows 10 Nvidia ASUS laptop with 3 HD) or just Orbiter downloads are not as good as they used to be. But it seems to me now that MOST files I download for orbiter 2016 seem to end in CTD! Not only for version 2016 but for the other...

I have just downloaded this amazing addon along with all the associated files However there are a couple of problems I cannot seem to resolve when I launch the Soyuz 1 scenario. 1. there is a large square on the earth which i assume is the area around Baikonur - should this blend into the earth...

Hello I am having problems with the Fireball XL5 I have made for Orbiter 2016 It has an Undercarriage G button and when I lower the U/C the spaceship comes apart and as soon as I raise the U/C it goes back together again Picture provided Any help please With thanks

60 years ago today Colonel Yuri Gagarin made his epic flight into space on Vostok 1

I have just read about the amazing life of Colonel Vladimir Komarov ! He truly was a very brave man Does anyone know if there is a Soyuz-1 or even a Voskhod-1 scenario available for Orbiter 2016? I would love to fly these missions as a tribute to this great Cosmonaut With thanks

I am using Windows 10 on an Asus laptop and now find that the only keys I can use to zoom in and out are the Z and X keys plis the Ctrl z/x It says in the manual that the Pgup and Pgdn keys can be used but they do not do anything I seem to remember zooming all the way out on a land ship until...

Yuri Gagarin. Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (Russian: Ю́рий Алексе́евич Гага́рин; IPA:; 9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961. 57 years ago today...

it would be pure nostalgia to be able to fly this ship from 1950`s Dan Dare If someone could please make it? With thanks

I think this would be a novel way to travel between planets in Orbiter ? If someone could try and build it Regards

I am amazed that there has not been a new Mercury Program for Orbiter 2010 or 2016 The last one was done magnifiecently by Rob Conley way back and I loved flying those missions - it sadly no longer works with later orbiter updates We have an amazing Vostok program so why not a workable Mercury...

I have just downloaded Project X-15 V2.- into Orbiter 2016 and there are no earth textures just all white. I am using a Samsung laptop RF711 with windows 7 and Nvidia The earth textures are OK in other addons Any help please? Thanks

I am using windows 7 and trying to fly Igel`s Vostok scenario - and the Yuri Gagarin one in particular. Am I right in thinking this is a fully automated flight from launch to land ? As I start the scenario - all goes well until T+139 and the nose cone deploys and the entire Vostok and R7 begins...

Whenever I exit Orbiter and want to re-run it again I always get this error "Another orbiter applications is already running" I then have to restart my computer to load Orbiter again Any help greatfull accepted Thanks

Although Kev Shannow has done an excellent model of the Fireball XL-5 and I fly it all the time just out of pure nostalgia - even as a Space Shuttle substitute - I think it would be good if a newer version could be made for orbiter 2010 Kind regards...

How good would it be to use this great sim to produce a definitive Apollo mission to return to the moon - ie Apollo 18? We already have some if not all of the components needed to do this What I have in mind is something along these lines 1. start off by actually choosing and naming your...

It`s only a matter of weeks before the Anniversary of Yuri Gagarin`s Historic Space Flight - 12th April 1961. I am endeavouring to mark this occascion by recreating this monumental flight by using Jekka`s great Vostok 1.1 addon and in realtime and at the correct launchtime on Sunday 12th April...

Could someone tell me what the writing is on the bottom of the Apollo PLSS (Backpack) - Have looked at several photos on the web but none are big enoughThanks