Exciting Simulations Space Shuttle Mission 2007

It’s always exciting when a new simulator package comes along and, if the video and screenshots are anything to go by, Exciting Simulations Space Shuttle Mission 2007 looks like it’s going to be a hell of a simulator! This is a completely new, standalone product. It doesn’t run within any other flight simulator. Make sure you check out the video on their site - it’s superb. I particularly like the “juddering” during launch

Here’s their press release:

Space Shuttle Mission 2007 ™ is the newest, most exciting and affordable Space Shuttle Simulator available today, designed to provide the experience and excitement of the NASA Space Shuttle missions in extreme detail.

Features

• Accurate and detailed 3D models of the Space Shuttle
• Accurate 3D model of the International Space Station
• Accurate 3D models of satellites and other objects
• Space Shuttle 3D virtual cockpit
• 3D sound effects
• High-Resolution TrueEarth™ Global Satellite Imagery – licensed from TerraMetrics Inc. These are the same textures used by Google Earth.
• Watch the countdown and Shuttle Launch from the place that few get to see it: the VIP location at KSC.
• Experience the Liftoff shakes and engines roar right from the Captain seat.
• Extremely accurate mission procedures: press buttons, rotate knobs, control and change General Purpose Computer modes, manually guide the Shuttle to a safe landing etc.
• First Person View throughout the missions, including EVA – you cannot get any closer to the ISS or Hubble than that!
• Third Person View and Free Camera View throughout the missions – watch the Space Shuttle and any space object from angles that even Astronauts never got to see.
• Multiple Mission Saves
• Multiple Astronauts login complete with personal Astronauts Achievements records.
• Launch Control, Mission Control, Shuttle and Astronauts audio communications.
• Three difficulty modes – from Novice which leads the “astronaut” through the tasks with context arrows and full text “subtitles”, to “Read the Manual Captain!”
• Complete Documentation: Quick Start, Captain’s Manual and Mission Checklists.
• 12 variable-difficulty historical missions from STS-1 (the maiden flight) to STS-122.
• Expandable: we plan to periodically release new missions until we complete the entire historical missions set.

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