{"id":60547,"date":"2020-01-27T22:51:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T14:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/kerbal-space-programs-aerospace-of-play\/"},"modified":"2020-01-27T22:51:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T14:51:20","slug":"kerbal-space-programs-aerospace-of-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/kerbal-space-programs-aerospace-of-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerbal Space Program\u2019s Aerospace of Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Kerbal Space Program<\/b> (or KSP as it\u2019s more commonly known by fans) is a tremendously successful space flight simulator. It has been hailed by game industry critics and space industry leaders such as ULA\u2019s Tory Bruno and SpaceX\u2019s Elon Musk as providing the \u201cperfect blend of science and slapstick,\u201d as well as for its ability to create fun out of failure.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Grant Gertz is a game producer for <b>Private Division<\/b>, the company developing KSP\u2019s much-anticipated sequel. Gertz is unique in his industry in that he doesn\u2019t come from a computer programming background. He was once an aerospace engineer working at <strong>Aerojet Rocketdyne<\/strong>. When the opportunity arose to shift gears in his career and indulge in his love of video games, he took the leap.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During our conversation, we discuss his unique path to a career in video games, the influence of space technology on pop culture, the educational value of video games, and how developer Private Division plans to build on the success of the first release with Kerbal Space Program 2. Grant very generously took time out of his busy schedule to talk to us (as you can literally hear his team play testing the sequel in the background of the interview).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Listen Here:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Episode 23 - Kerbal Space Program's Aerospace of Play by On Orbit Podcast by Via Satellite\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F750593215&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;maxheight=750&amp;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><b>Episode Links:&nbsp;<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Kerbal Space Program\u2019s official website<br \/>\nEducators interested in using Kerbal Space Program in their classrooms can access the educational version here.<br \/>\nGrant Gertz on Twitter<br \/>\nCome See Grant Speak at SATELLITE 2020!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerbal Space Program (or KSP as it\u2019s more commonly known by fans) is a tremendously successful space flight simulator. It has been hailed by game industry critics and space industry leaders such as ULA\u2019s Tory Bruno and SpaceX\u2019s Elon Musk as providing the \u201cperfect blend of science and slapstick,\u201d as well as for its ability [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}