Download Moon Base Alpha thank NASA and STEAM live out some Moon Base Alpha Space 1999 fantasises for free!

Fans of Moon Basing and Space Exploration  have been bitterly disappointed on the reality and game front for decades , in the 60s a nice Irishman spoke about going to the moon and other planets as well as doing the other things , 1999 came and went and there was no  Koenig commanded Eagle Lander operated Moon Base , as I was promised as a child , in the 80`s the Purple one sang about the cost of sending people to the moon [His best album] and lo a couple of decades later one of his fans now in the Oval office withdrew all funding for sending people to the moon . But all is not lost : 

Get to Steam and download this gift from NASA, a free sim of what Moonbasing would be like .......yeah really !....  You have to consider with all the drastic NASA budget cuts whether there is a bit of reverse psychology going on with this release ,a salvo from NASA to their old funding source ? As it is to make the sim accurate , i.e not science fiction ,  all you need to do is replace the flags/insignias/astronauts with those of India , China , Russia and or Japan and or if you are a follower of William Gibson  Rastafari . The reality is space travel and bases such as this if they are to involve USA input will require , cooperation with other now emerging space powers as well as  private enterprise ,so roll on the Mega Corps ! Until the Vulcans arrive and Cochran wakes up from his latest alco fuelled stupor but in the meantime you can follow the now fading dream of going to the moon and other planets ,with this awesome free gift from NASA 

check  out the absolute awesomeness below  and write to your congressmen now people for better training in languages that you will need to travel to the moon with [Chinese Hindi Russian Rasta etc] or a better way to fund NASA .

NASA itself should seek private funding, after all 12 million people pay money every month to waste time on just 1 MMORPG , Millions more are slave to PSN and XBOX Live  . Why not get these  people to subscribe to NASA and have their names written in history as pioneers of space exploration ! Instead of casting x on y with z for 2000 AP , you could actually be funding the future of man , Sony got gamers to contribute to science with Folding , PC users already contribute to SETI , so how about evolving this to allow actual funding of NASA and International Space projects  removing the government funding shackles altogether. 

Moon Base Alpha is of course just one awesome free Space sim , you will of course be familiar with zero gravity simulation walking/fighting in your home/school playground /college dorm,and 

for those less dedicated there is the excellent ORBITER , totally free and constantly updated , very handy if you find yourself on a Space Shuttle and the pilot has just discovered an allergy to the in flight combo meal or turns out to be some James Bond villain from the 80s .......

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