Buzz Aldrin's Space Program Manager
Buzz Aldrin’s Space Program Manager (SPM) – The Way to the Moon is the most complete space exploration game yet. It’s the mid-1950s, and the race for supremacy between the U.S. and the USSR is about to enter a new dimension: space. Take command of the U.S. or Soviet space agency to win the race to land on the moon. Carefully manage your budget by opening programs, allocating funds for research or upgrading equipment, recruiting staff, and sending out space missions in this realistic turn-based strategy game.
Road to the Moon presents the Race to the Moon, a historic event that began in the early 1960s and ended in July 1969 after the successful Apollo 11 mission.
The game features both a campaign and a sandbox mode. In the campaign mode, you’ll be able to take on the role of the director of NASA or the Soviet Space Agency to defeat the opposing side in the race to the moon. Or you can lead the Global Space Agency (GSA), a fictional agency that brings together the programs of all the major space agencies in the world. In the GSA campaign, you will have to respond to requests and short-term goals set by the government, and it is aimed at those players who prefer an experience focused on exploration over competition. Alternatively, all 3 space agencies offer a Sandbox mode, which provides a more open-ended experience and will allow you to try different approaches without political pressure.
If you’re even slightly interested in space exploration and the events that took place during the “Race to the Moon”, you can’t miss this game!
Game Features
- Three different campaign modes: play as NASA or the Soviet Space Agency to win the race to the moon, or play as the Global Space Agency and face short-term goals set by politicians.
- Manage all aspects of your space agencies, from their inception in the 1950s to manned moon landing missions.
- Play the campaign mode of the race to the moon against other players using the PBEM system.
- The Sandbox mode will allow you to play as one of three space agencies and removes all competitive restrictions. You’ll have a fully equipped playground to try out different approaches to space exploration!
- Create space programs and embark on missions inspired by real-life programs such as the X-15 space plane, the Sputnik satellite, Gemini, Vostok and the Apollo crewed vehicle, among many more!
- Research and develop multiple mission components from several program categories.
- Grow your facility with advanced buildings and upgrades, including the Vehicle Assembly Building and Mission Control Center.
- Recruit and train astronaut candidates and assign them to missions.
- Create an elite team of Scientists, Engineers, Technicians, Flight Controllers to increase your chances of success.
- Manage your agency’s budget.
- Mission components have a reliability rating associated with them and can lead to catastrophic errors.
- Numerous historical studies ensure that the game’s huge database includes missions that have taken place and many more that have never left the drawing board!
- A wide selection of components built in 3D and rendered with an extraordinary level of detail will allow you to follow the progress of your missions with animated sequences.
- The buzz-opedia provides additional information about the real programs, missions, and equipment in the game.
- The soundtrack includes a unique playlist for each space agency and numerous tracks for the mission animation.
Designed in consultation with Dr. Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11 Lunar Module Pilot and the second man to set foot on the Moon.
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