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Apollo 11 56th Anniversary Moodboard

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." - Neil Armstrong

PiDP-8 update number.. what are we up to, 5? I still have not properly mounted the PCB but it hasn't stopped me from having fun running old BASIC-8 bundled programs I definitely remember.

Like this lunar lander simulation, no graphics just text so can be played on a regular CRT terminal or even teletype.

You enter how much fuel to burn each round and you get an updated output with fuel level, velocity, and altitude.

The goal being to land without running out of fuel with a survivably low velocity.

This game is actually pretty accurate from a physics perspective and deceptively difficult to win. I found it to be a compelling experience, even after close to 50 years since I first played it. It's nail biting watching your fuel drop and wondering if you can slow down in time, and being turn based you have time to contemplate your doom, unlike the later arcade lander games.

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Astral Bastion.

Completed on 25th August 2025.

My interpretation: In a retro-futuristic version of the US, the technology and capability to explore the galaxy has grown exponentially since the 70s. Where, in the present day of 2189, an expedition of the United States Space Command has sent a survey team to investigate a distant binary star system. In that star system, they find several habitable worlds, but while in orbit of one, they pick up an unusual signal coming from its moon. They enter the lunar orbit and capture an obvious anomaly disrupting the moons' surface. They send down a lander to set up a forward operating base and investigate the anomaly. A small team of USSC scientists, engineers, technicians, and other specialists head out to take a closer look at what is clearly some kind of alien structure erupting out of the moon's surface.

The scene is shot from the perspective of the 1st rank space-man, photojournalist, videographer, IT expert. Capturing his team:

2nd rank space-man, engineer, mech pilot, geologist

Staff sergeant, pioneer, security, anthropologist

2nd rank space-man, comms specialist, intelligence, astrophysicist

3rd rank space-man, mechanic, backup drone pilot, biologist

USSC remote piloted Ox cargo drone

Captain, medic, team commander, historian

The captain especially is stopped in her tracks by the strange otherworldly majesty of this alien monument.

The spacecraft's laser range finder, or LRF, experienced an anomaly that prevented Resilience from obtaining valid measurements of its dista

A lander built by Japanese company ispace crashed on the lunar surface while attempting to make the nation's first private moon landing earlier this month — and now we know why. Today (June 24), ispace released a statement detailing just what went wrong with the lander, named Resilience. The company said the spacecraft's laser range finder, or LRF, experienced an anomaly that prevented Resilience from obtaining valid measurements of its distance from the lunar surface. This prevented the moon lander from decelerating at the proper rate, causing it to crash.

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