Kerbal Engineer, it does all the fancy calculations for you in real time so you can get your orbits and landings super precise and efficient.
cosecantphi
joined 5 years ago
It's really unintuitive at first, but what really helps is getting a mod that provides more telemetry data on your ship and orbital path. The game doesn't really provide any of that in vanilla, so having it is useful in avoiding basing everything on guesswork or actually having to break out some math. Since playing this game I've learned so much about how space travel works, and can actually understand a lot of what NASA does now.
I was actually on the plane before it hit the first tower. And yeah, you're definitely right, the situation wasn't even that bad. I would've stopped them if I knew no one else was going to do it. But to me it seemed like the other passengers had it under control, so I decided to get off the plane early as it was passing over my house on the way to NYC. Definitely now feel a little regret that I didn't stick around to help.