First Steps

Realism levels Quickstart mode For beginners Orbiter-like control of the spacecraft No panel usage necessary Standard mode For advanced users Realistic behavior of the spacecraft Panel usage necessary Virtual AGC mode For experts Like Standard mode Uses the Virtual AGC

After you finished the Installation of the latest beta version you'll find the Project Apollo scenarios in the "Project Apollo - NASSP" scenario folder and subfolders. Because of the ongoing development many of the scenarios and missions are not working yet, but you can try the missions and scenarios mentioned here.

Project Apollo - NASSP supports different levels of complexity or realism modes, so you can adjust the difficulty level you want to use. You choose the desired mode by choosing the appropriate scenario. At the moment there's the Quickstart mode for beginners, Standard mode and Virtual AGC mode are indended for the advanced user.

Quickstart mode

The Quickstart mode is intended for beginners, who are already familiar with Orbiter and spaceflight in general, but don't have much particular knowledge about Apollo and the historic spacecraft. If you aren't familiar with Orbiter yet, we suggest to try the built-in Deltaglider and the "flight checklists" miisions explained in the Orbiter user manual at first. In Quickstart mode as much as possible is done automatically and the spacecrafts behave as much as possible like standard Orbiter spacecrafts. It's only very rarely necessary to use the panel. All (or almost all) critical maneuvers are done by autopilot and you can also fly the spacecrafts "more manually" than the real Apollo spacecrafts.

Missions

The following missions and scenarios are available for Quickstart mode:

Apollo 7

Bla

Apollo 8

Bla

Standard mode

All other (non-quickstart) scenarios use the "standard" realism mode. In that mode everything is as authentic as possible and you have to fly the mission (almost) like the real thing. You have to do long checklists and control the internal systems manually. The spacecrafts behave more like the real ones, the SIVB is restartable only once for example. The standard mode is saved in the scenario file by the "REALISM 5" setting or by leaving it out.

Virtual AGC mode

Standard mode with the Virtual AGC...