Kerbal Space Program’s first expansion has deep mission-creation controls

Kerbal Space Program is getting its first expansion since debuting as an unfinished early access game outside of Steam in 2011. The Making History pack blasts off March 13 on Valve’s platform, and it introduces a huge playlist of new missions that take their inspiration from the history space flight. It also gives players a system for creating their own missions that they can share with the community and their friends. I’ve spent a bit of time with it, and I’m impressed at the level of control you have when building a flight plan.

The mission creator in Kerbal Space Program is essentially a visual flow-chart-style planning tool. You add various modules and connect them to one another depending on if you want players to build their own rocket, fly it into orbit, and then dock it with a space station. You can design the space station and have it already out in orbit waiting for the players, or you can force them to build and launch their own.