Direct support for popular joysticks, including 3-axis models for realistic attitude control. Mission Profile, Booster, Spacecraft and Astronaut Editors allow complete control over mission variables. Mission Data Recorder and Strip Chart Graph Tool allows detailed analysis of each mission. Astronauts will physiologically react to the mission based on their build and experience, allowing realistic consumption of oxygen and contamination of cabin air with sweat and heat. Separate Mission Control Center simulator for networked simulations.
Educational version includes comprehensive teacher's guide.
Cost for the educational versions have not yet been determined. With the exception of a specially distributed demo version of 2.1.1, there is no demo available right now. After release, there will be a trial version available with some sort of limit that has not yet been decided. I wanted to be able to pick up the original checklists and use them with the simulator. I did look at shuttle, lunar module and Gemini simulators, but they were just too complex for the computers of the day and were way too complicated to operate if simulated realistically.