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Perhaps not commercially viable but I would love to pay like… $100 for me and two friends to sit in a mock-up CM+LEM and replay a time compressed (say, 30 min) scenario such as the 13 catastrophe, or 11 moon landing, a reentry, etc. CAPCOM can be the moderator who can provide an appropriate level of guidance. Switches and buttons can flash to indicate the ones to press. Or even a “you’re on your own” for hardcore fans or people who love to screw with the script and die in a glorious explosion.




Don't know anywhere you could get that for $100, but if you wanted to get hardcore about making that a reality you might be able to convince someone at a science center with one of these to make immersive challenges aimed at adults -> https://www.shudiscovery.org/programs-education/group-progra.... You'd probably have to offer to do at least some of the work/figure out how to make it happen and absorb that cost to have a chance of convincing them, doubt many people would consider funding anything like that.

Elite Dangerous in VR with a HOTAS is a more achievable way of scratching some of that itch. Might be VR games closer to what you're looking for, but it's the best spaceflight simulator I know of, though it's an unrealistic/sci-fi one (but it does recreate the entire milky way galaxy, which is awesome)


While not that cheap, you could go to Space Camp for adults (over a weekend). Among other things, you get to run simulated missions—both from Mission Control and in a “space ship.” https://www.spacecamp.com/space/adult/academy


I think we might see something like that as part of publicity for the Artemis program, since NASA is heading back to the moon.

In the meantime, at least we have Eagle Lander 3D: http://eaglelander3d.com/




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