KSP in Curiosity?

by Adrian

We knew it! The Mars Curiosity rover team have trained their recent mars landing mission using KSP!

Well, probably not, but they do play it in their spare time (or maybe even during working hours) as we learned yesterday during a reddit chat with the engineers and scientists of the mission.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57495117-93/mars-curiosity-rover-team-prefers-macs-to-pcs/

Here is the full conversation:

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    AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA THIS IS VERY VERY COOL, NASA ENGINEERS PLAYING KSP OMG…
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