Personally, capturing FNW-501 was the most white-knuckle piece of KSP piloting I've had to do since I landed on the moon the first time -and I got the same rush of accomplishment afterward. Players who have been in Kerbal Space Program for a while will find new things to do, new rocket parts, and a new rigid-body rocket system that will make it easier to build truly monstrous spaceships. FNW-501 is now in orbit, ready to be tested, mined, or deorbited and flung at Buenos Aires. It flew like a brick, and I'm once again thankful that I tried my hand at a relatively small asteroid. Once the claw engaged, I slowly turned the huge rock around, then lit my engines until our orbit brought us home. When all was said and done, meeting FNW-501 for my billion-dollar headbutt was a lot like docking with a space station in low Kerbin orbit. I would strongly recommend you go for a class B or lower, as larger ones are truly hard to move around.”

I'm on the look-out for an easy target, as Squad's PR manager, Miguel Piña, warned me that “Catching an asteroid is probably one of the hardest things to do in KSP now. Clicking an asteroid gives me the option to track it, which assign it a unique name and adds it to my map as an orbiting body. Asteroids of various sizes-classed A (tiny) through E (huge)-pop up as unconfirmed sightings across the local area. To find these new objects in the deep black, I bring up the satellite tracking station and zoom way, way out. The main event for this update, though, is the opportunity to capture an asteroid. The NASA logo is now officially included in the default flag roster, and the new rockets have NASA emblems painted on. The rocket part inventory has swelled to over 180, including several new super-heavy lifters and enormous fuel tanks.

Produced in collaboration with NASA, the Asteroid Redirect Mission adds asteroids to the Kerbal universe. So it was with immense pleasure that I checked out the upcoming update for KSP, which has grown from goofy experiment to one of Steam's most popular Early Access games.

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