Thursday, September 17, 2015

News::This web game shows that landing a Falcon 9 rocket is pretty much impossible

You thought the carrier landing stage in Top Gun was a nightmare to pull off? Then get ready to scream obscenities you didn't know you knew at MIT Media Lab's SpaceX Falcon 9 Lander. This 8-bit web-game combines all of the pulse pounding excitement of landing a multi-million dollar prototype spacecraft with the rage-inducing control scheme from a 1983 Yugo. The goal of the game is simple, get the rocket to set down gently on an ocean-going platform using only the WASD keys before its limited fuel supply runs out. Now try it without giving yourself a coronary.

[Image Credit: top - Space X, inline - MIT Media Lab]

Via: The Verge

Source: MIT Media Lab



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