Even before the recent renovation of the Kerbal Lab , ASK has had a relationship with the developers of KSP , Intercept Games , but that relationship reached new heights after their development team visited the ATC . After seeing the work that ASK has been doing with KSP , they shared how supportive they are of our mission .
The greatest benefit to having a space solely dedicated to playing Kerbal , is that students can come to an after-school program and learn how to play the game for free . One of these students , Ben , comes into the ATC at least once a week . He is a friendly twelve year old and he always has a large grin across his face .
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As time went by , ASK employees didn ’ t even have to ask what he wanted to do that day , and they instead directed him straight to the Kerbal Lab . Ben has been playing Kerbal for a month now , and in that time he has learned an impressive amount .
“ I ’ ve learned a lot about launching the rockets and what you have to do when you ’ re inside the atmosphere . And when the atmosphere starts and how high you have to be to stay in orbit .”
Ben ’ s favorite part of Kerbal is building rockets . “ Launching them is fun but I really like building them and figuring out what you need to do to land places .
I like figuring out how much you ’ ll need .” After playing for a few weeks , Ben figured out how to build a rocket that would make it to the Moon . But all of Ben ’ s Kerbal success came with a surplus of trial and error .
“ One time I tried to launch this rocket to the Moon and I missed it and I got stuck in deep space . I kind of forgot about it , but I came back a couple days later and a ton of my astronauts were stuck on there and all my pilots and one scientist . And I had to get it back and it took like 20 years to get an encounter with Earth . Luckily you can fast forward , but it still took half an hour even with the time warp . But it ended up landing and everything was fine !”