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If you guys are interested in the making of this video, I wrote about some of the work that went into it on my blog. https://peterthomasvfx.wordpress.com/2015/07/26/one-small-step-the-apollo-11-mission-animated/

Did it all in Adobe After Effects. Thinking of doing more about other missions if this proves popular.

Hi Guys, I'm a motion graphic designer, a closet astronaut and a massive KSP fan. Lately I was browsing around youtube to see if there were any simple, infographic style animations outlining the Apollo 11 mission and was disappointed to find that I couldn't really find any. Instead, I decided to combine my two passions and make one myself and this is the result: https://youtu.be/roXPgVxxnrs I'd love to know what the KSP community thinks of it. Likes and shares would also be appreciated

Thanks for the reply! Indeed an actual Rama type artifact, i.e. the size of a small moon, would be impractical. I'm not sure if BDOs are at all possible in KSP, would be pretty sweet if they were. I was thinking more along the lines of like a derilict alien spaceship or a floating monolith, something along those lines, more Kerbal sized. Basically just an anomalous object that if you investigate it yields a lot of science etc. Maybe one of them could be a derelict alien ship with an OP engine that you could salvage, fix up and then fly around in? Like something that would appear once or maybe twice in your entire career play-through as an endgame thing.

I was recently pondering the question about alien life in the Kerbal universe. I know that the devs do not intend to add aliens to the game, and as far as I know there are no mods that add these. I have read a few things on the subject in the forums saying that adding actual aliens or ruins on planets would be tricky, but then I thought: what about a Rendezvous with Rama type scenario? If you haven't read it, its a book by Arthur C. Clarke about an alien object entering our solar system and a team of human explorers are sent to investigate it. Its very hard sci-fi, with the explorers having a limited amount of time to study the artefact before it gets too close to the sun and they burn up or end up on an escape trajectory they cannot recover from. Its a really good book and I can definitely recommend it. My question is would it be possible to add something like this to KSP? I know very little about the inner workings of the game itself or making mods, but would it be possible to maybe use the mechanic that spawns asteroids? Like a 1 in very large number chance that instead of an asteroid the game spawns an alien object. If you then rendezvous with this object and investigate it you get a huge science bonus from it or something. Might spice things up a little and add new objectives. Maybe there could be contracts? Or maybe it could tie in with the interstellar mod, e.g. the secret to FTL travel can only be unlocked by researching alien tech? I'm curious to see what you guys think of this idea and if it is at all possible.