Space Program Manager (SPM) by Buzz Aldrin is the definitive space exploration game. The game features the race to the Moon, the historic event that began in the early 1960s and ended in July 1969, following the successful completion of the Apollo 11 mission. To verify its accuracy and authenticity, the game has been developed in consultation with Dr. Buzz Aldrin, former US Air Force fighter pilot (66 missions in Korea) and NASA astronaut, who participated in the first moon landing mission and became the second human to walk on the Moon. If you have any interest in space exploration and the events that occurred during the ‘Race to the Moon’, this is a game you won’t want to miss! It’s the mid-1950s and the race for dominance between the United States and the Soviet Union is about to move into a new dimension: space. Take charge of the American or Soviet space agencies: your duty is to be the first to reach the moon. Carefully manage your budget by opening programs, spending R&D funds to upgrade hardware, recruiting personnel, and launching space missions in this realistic turn-based strategy game. The game features a campaign mode and a sandbox mode. In campaign mode, you can play as the Director of NASA or the Soviet Space Agency to defeat the other side and be the first to reach the Moon. You can also lead the Global Space Agency (GSA), a fictional space agency that combines programs from the world’s major space agencies. In the GSA campaign, you will be tasked with addressing short-term requests and objectives issued by the government, and is aimed at players who prefer a gameplay experience focused on exploration rather than competition. Alternatively, all three space agencies feature a Sandbox mode, which provides a more open experience and allows you to try out different approaches without any political pressure. You can develop dozens of programs. Some examples include the X-15 and PKA spaceplanes, the Sputnik satellite, the Mercury, Voskhod, Apollo and Soyuz manned spacecraft, and the Mars Viking probe. You are not limited to the missions that were released, as the game also allows you to try out many concepts that were planned but never left the drawing board. For example, instead of sending men to the Moon using the Lunar Orbit Rendezvous (LOR) approach used by Project Apollo in the late 1960s and early 1970s, you will be able to rewrite history and use the alternative Gemini Earth Orbit Rendezvous (EOR) or Gemini Direct Ascent (DA) schemes. The number of options available ensures that each game is different and there is great replay value.
System requirements
- SW: Windows Vista/7/8/10, Windows Server 2008/2003
- Processor: 1.33 GHz or faster Intel Core Duo processor (or equivalent)
- Memory: 2GB RAM
- Graphics: 256 MB video RAM
- Storage: 3 GB of available space
- Additional notes: Minimum screen resolution: 1366×768
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How to install Buzz Aldrin’s Space Program Manager (v1.7.1)
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- Follow the game installer instructions, wait for the download to finish
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