Hi all,
This might be of some interest to Orbiter fans (particularly classic spaceflight fans). This is a personal project I've been working on for about 6 months now. It's a labour of love as I've gone for a very niche game (it's not going to make Kerbal money, lets face it... you have to be a mercury nut to play it). The driving force in getting this off the ground was that I've been looking for a good, modern mercury sim with modern graphics and total detail and discovered that there just isn't one. A-OK is very detailed, but lacks modern graphics, Orbiter Mercury mod has been patched up over the years but is still fairly rudimentary (as to be expected with a free mod), KSP "FASA" is just too far from authentic for my personal taste.
Go For Launch: Mercury is being built from the ground up for one purpose only, to recreate the Mercury missions with total accuracy and an unheard of level of functional detail. Every single switch, dial, breaker, lever and button will do exactly what they did in the original.... not just flight control systems, but literally everything.
The high level of authenticity is aided by the very kind help and support of the NASA history office who have described GFL: Mercury as "Very cool and worthwhile" (probably the best review I could ever hope for) who have also offered access to NASA data to complete the project.
Free demo (flight of Freedom 7 - note, switches not yet functional in current demo), pre-order and Beta all available on the indiegogo page. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/go-for-launch-mercury#/
This might be of some interest to Orbiter fans (particularly classic spaceflight fans). This is a personal project I've been working on for about 6 months now. It's a labour of love as I've gone for a very niche game (it's not going to make Kerbal money, lets face it... you have to be a mercury nut to play it). The driving force in getting this off the ground was that I've been looking for a good, modern mercury sim with modern graphics and total detail and discovered that there just isn't one. A-OK is very detailed, but lacks modern graphics, Orbiter Mercury mod has been patched up over the years but is still fairly rudimentary (as to be expected with a free mod), KSP "FASA" is just too far from authentic for my personal taste.
Go For Launch: Mercury is being built from the ground up for one purpose only, to recreate the Mercury missions with total accuracy and an unheard of level of functional detail. Every single switch, dial, breaker, lever and button will do exactly what they did in the original.... not just flight control systems, but literally everything.
The high level of authenticity is aided by the very kind help and support of the NASA history office who have described GFL: Mercury as "Very cool and worthwhile" (probably the best review I could ever hope for) who have also offered access to NASA data to complete the project.
Free demo (flight of Freedom 7 - note, switches not yet functional in current demo), pre-order and Beta all available on the indiegogo page. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/go-for-launch-mercury#/
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