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We do have a screen-shot thread and an impressive video thread, but I wonder if somebody has ever written stories based on Orbiter experiences?
I think Orbiter would be a perfect tool to prove your story or adventure could be real. The simulation gives an excellent feeling of an astronauts thrill to get things done right, reach the desired orbit, time the burn correctly, cope with limited fuel, etc.
If this is completed with the 'human touch' of living in narrow spaces for long times, the troubles of zero-gee, communications delay and the danger of vacuum and radiation only being a few millimeters away, that alone would pay for some claustrophobic stories in a vast, endless outer space.
And if we look a few years into the future, assuming commercial spaceflight succeeds, with commerce also greed and fear will come to the high frontier. Not only well trained and disciplined astronauts will be in space, but people with more dubious motivations and behavior ...
Anybody having a story and willing to publish it, is invited to post it here. To simplify reading I suggest to post a link to a zip, txt, or pdf file only.
I think Orbiter would be a perfect tool to prove your story or adventure could be real. The simulation gives an excellent feeling of an astronauts thrill to get things done right, reach the desired orbit, time the burn correctly, cope with limited fuel, etc.
If this is completed with the 'human touch' of living in narrow spaces for long times, the troubles of zero-gee, communications delay and the danger of vacuum and radiation only being a few millimeters away, that alone would pay for some claustrophobic stories in a vast, endless outer space.
And if we look a few years into the future, assuming commercial spaceflight succeeds, with commerce also greed and fear will come to the high frontier. Not only well trained and disciplined astronauts will be in space, but people with more dubious motivations and behavior ...
Anybody having a story and willing to publish it, is invited to post it here. To simplify reading I suggest to post a link to a zip, txt, or pdf file only.