Learning how manipulate a spaceship’s orbit is extremely complicated.
The catch is that this isn’t like Star Wars: real Newtonian physics applies to everything! Spaceships in a vacuum don’t work anything like the airplane-style spaceships in sci-fi movies. More complex spaceships might have literally thousands of individual parts.Īfter they build spaceships, players have the option to fly them out into space. For example, a basic rocket ship might have a command capsule (i.e., a cockpit) at the top, a fuel tank, a rocket engine, and some landing struts. At your space center, you can build rocket ships and space planes out of a giant variety of parts, snapping the pieces together like legos. Your home planet, Kerbin, is populated by a race of little green aliens called Kerbals. You start at a space center (approximating Cape Canaveral) on a fictional planet in a fictional solar system similar to our own, complete with many planets, moons, and even gas giants. Kerbal Space Program is a similar game in the sense that it’s a “sandbox”. For the past few years, it’s been a wildly popular game with children and adults alike, and the Internet abounds with stories of teachers either incorporating Minecraft into the classroom or else bemoaning that their students use school computers and laptops to surreptitiously play the game when they should be working. It’s an open “sandbox” world where players can interact with their blocky environment and build whatever wonderful creations they can think up. I think it’s fair to say that many, if not most, K-12 teachers are familiar with Minecraft.
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