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Space Program Manager on Twitch tomorrow!

“The probability of success is difficult to estimate, but if we never search the chance of success is zero.” (Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison, 1959)

We are happy to announce you that an important update for Space Program Manager is scheduled for today, and we wish to invite you to race with us to go where no man has gone before, tomorrow at 8 pm CET/ 2pm EST as we stream the game showing you some of the new features.

Check it out on the official Twitch channel


Space Program Manager on Twitch tomorrow!

“The probability of success is difficult to estimate, but if we never search the chance of success is zero.” (Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison, 1959)

We are happy to announce you that an important update for Space Program Manager is scheduled for today, and we wish to invite you to race with us to go where no man has gone before, tomorrow at 8 pm CET/ 2pm EST as we stream the game showing you some of the new features.

Check it out on the official Twitch channel


Space Program Manager Contest Winner Announced!

Celebrating the highly successful launch of Buzz Aldrin’s Space Program Manager, we teamed up with the famous Kennedy Space Center and hosted a launch contest. All the people who bought the game could take part in order to win an exclusive VIP trip to the Kennedy Space Center, or one of many other great prizes!
The winners have all been contacted by now and we would like to congratulate user Libertybelle79 has won the grand prize! She and one other guest will be flying over to the Kennedy Space Center in order to get a full VIP treatment, including a tour, lunch with an astronaut and, if the weather allows for it, witness an actual launch!

Libertybelle79 was certainly pleased with the prize, saying :
"I am so excited to have won the trip to Kennedy Space Center! I have been dreaming of going there for years. I'm looking forward to touring the old Mercury through Apollo-era launch sites and am especially excited about having lunch with an astronaut. Not to mention it will be a really fun vacation for my fiance and me!"

On behalf of the Slitherine Group, the Polar Motion development team,
The Kennedy Space Center and Buzz Aldrin himself, we could like to congratulate Libertybelle79 and wish her and her guest a great time!

If you were contacted as the winner of one of the many other prizes, your prize will be delivered to you soon.

Patch 1.1 is now available!

The developers over at Polar Motion have been working hard ever since release to incorporate your comments and feedback into the game. As a result, Space Program Manager has now been updated. The 1.1 patch includes a number of fixes, as well as the implementation of tooltips. The game also supports more resolutions and is now fully available in French and German!

Changes: * Added support for 4:3, 16:9 and 16:10 resolutions. * Added support for German and French.
* Added tooltips and in-game help messages across the whole UI.
* Overhaul of the Vostok program animations.
* Overhaul of the Voskhod program animations.
* Luna 2 probe animation overhaul, now includes the “sodium cloud release” experiment.
* Luna 15 probe animation overhaul.
* Zond 5 probe animation overhaul.
* Venera 7 probe animation overhaul, with an improved “descent into hell” experience.
* Soyuz LOK Lunar program : extra-vehicular crew transfers were performed by the wrong cosmonaut, which had an impact on the mission safety % during those steps, fixed. Now the Commander performs all the LK-related operations.
* Fixed the graphics glitch in the Soviet space complex reported.
* Added portrait of fallen astronaut/cosmonaut in the Memorial Centre.
* Revamped the mission configuration entries in the Headquarters so that they provide extra info about the launch requirements.
* Fixed a bug in the “Remember Me” multiplayer login checkbox.
* Fixed the sound issues.
* Fixed graphics glitch in the soviet space complex.
* Added code to prevent the player from changing the rocket associated to a mission configuration once the mission has been scheduled.
* Multiplayer matches will now end if either player takes its space agency into the red numbers.

Space Program Manager Launch Contest Announced!

Next week is the release of the highly anticipated Buzz Aldrin’s Space Program Manager. In order to celebrate the launch of Buzz Aldrin’s Space Program Manager, we have teamed up with the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to organize a contest with awesome prizes! The contest will be open to anyone who owns a copy of the game and the main prize will be a trip to the Kennedy Space Center itself!

The trip to the Kennedy Space Center will include your flight, two nights in a hotel and a full VIP treatment at the Space Center and you will be invited for lunch with an astronaut! And that is not all. We are also giving away three subscriptions to All About Space Magazine (1 Year), five “One Small Step” 40th Anniversary books signed by Buzz Aldrin himself! Among the contestants, we are also giving away ten of Buzz’s favorite “Get your ass to Mars” T-shirts and last but not least there is a chance to win one of the 500(!) $10 gift cards for the Slitherine Store.

How to enter
Entering this competition could not be easier. When you buy Space Program Manager, all you have to do is launch the game and click the trophy icon in the menu. Next you just follow the onscreen instructions and you will have a chance to win one of the great prizes!

Click here to find out more about the contest.