EDITORIAL INFORMATION

Design, construct and explore your own version of the International Space Station. This is mankind's largest space project yet, to be completed in 2002. Be there now to experience the thrill of living and working in space as a 21st century astronaut. Build the Space Station from forty modules. Follow the planned launch sequence or design your own configuration. Get information on how the Space Station systems work, and why they are there. Explore inside your own space station in conditions of microgravity. Share the experience of astronauts of the future, living and working in space; learn how they eat and take excercise. Take a VR Space walk. Fly around the station that you have built or move right up close. Enjoy spectacular views of the earth, stars and the station in orbit - flying over your own home. And connect via the internet to the latest information on the design and construction of the real station, project progress, current missions and scientific experiments.

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OUR REVIEW

Maris Multimedia has accustomed us to the edition of high quality products and an even better spectacularity. No doubt, in this occasion they have not lowered their level, as it happens to be otherwise. Their Space Station Simulator is an example of opportunity, entertainment, education and a technical expertise that the followers of the space program will find exceedingly attractive.

The users of this program, besides getting a great deal of information on the ISS project (International Space Station), will find the necessary tools to create their own version of the complex, following or not the original order and complexity. Yet even if it is truly fascinating to build the station piece by piece, utilizing to this end all the available basic elements (pressurized modules, solar panels, nodes, etc.), also the skill to be able to penetrate in its inner parts in a 3-D environment will help us to get to know much better all its parts, or we can get outside to observe it globally, surveying the Earth from over the point we wish to.

The program gathers therefore entertaiment, magnificient graphics and videos, and a great amount of information on a space program that from mid 1998 will become the center of attention worldwide.

To work, the program needs a compatible PC 90 MHz Pentium or better, with at least 16 MB of RAM memory, 60 MB available on hard disk, a CD-ROM drive of quad speed, Windows 95, audio card, modem (required for Internet feature) and a 640x480 video card (64.000 colors).