Tycho

Ride the Moonbus up from Clavius Base and across 482 km of the Moon to the TMA-1 dig in Tycho crater, as in 2001: A Space Odyssey. The ground is simulated from real NASA data: the Moon's actual terrain, measured from orbit by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and, over the two craters, Japan's SELENE. The autopilot flies the hop; you take over above Tycho's rim and land on the camp's pad before dawn.

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W / S

Nose down / up

A / D

Yaw left / right

Q / E

Roll left / right

Space

Main engine

B

Reverse thrust

Shift / C

Thrust up / down

R

Toggle flight assist

L

Landing lights

F

Search light

Drag / Scroll

Look around / zoom

V / double-click

Reset the view

Esc

Pause

Enter

Skip the autopilot

Terrain: NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LOLA elevation, LROC WAC imagery) and SLDEM2015 (LOLA and SELENE). Models: the site's author. Radio voices: eSpeak. Sound effects: SoX.