Best KSP real life story.

[VITAS]

Since most here have surely played KSP before KSA:

As im going around Nerd/Hacker meetups for years offering KSP setups to play on i had quite a few heart warming and fun reactions to the game.
Crowds of people cheering on someone trying to build and launch their first rocket.
Fathers showing their children their favorite game.
Groups of kids figuring out all that space lingo.
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As soon as KSA is ready for the masses and i find enough modern hardware to play it on i will take it to those events too.

I wish to know what your storys are and how KSA will hopfully continue or repeat them.

P.S. For all here attending 39th Chaos Comunication Congres in Hamburg this December. Give me a call on DECT or meet me at the AOC assembly.

 

[Infinite_Spaces.]

Found KSP via a Scott Manley tutorial on it many years ago, I had been tasked with illustrating a concept near-future rocket and had searched google for references of a 'rocket engine', saw this thumbnail of a video showing what looked like the NASA VAB and so checked it out. As a science illustrator i saw the learning/teaching potential of this straight away and I've been both using it and doing my best to shill it ever since, I have learnt fromt it and used it to understand so much, and I used it to teach all three of my sons the basics of orbital mechanics. As it happens, one of them is currently on a playthrough of it as I write this

I think KSP is/was such an important learning tool that it transcends being just a game or even just a simulation. To me, as someone who used it more as a tool, it was one of the most important pieces of software of its kind, right up there with 3DsMax/Blender and Photoshop in terms of usefulness, where you need specific information on certain space scenarios, KSP was and remains quite simply exceptional in terms of approachability.

This is also why I believe that KSA, having been made correctly from the start for this same purpose, based on educational value alone could end up being one of the most important space 'tools' we have created as a species, and the importance of what is being done here cannot be understated, everyone involved in this project deserves all the praise and money in the world, and i truly hope it gets finished.

 

[VITAS]

That was simply beautiful.