
The Orbiter community also remains strong, creating add-ons, tutorials, and videos, and supporting one another through the Orbiter Forum and other sites. Martin Schweiger is still working on Orbiter. But I remain a space and flight simulator enthusiast, happy that Dr.

Many things have changed since 2005: for example, smartphones and tablets now exist, and I’ve become a grandfather.

In the intervening years, Orbiter development has continued, and the 2016 version was recently released. More than ten years ago, The Space Review published my enthusiastic review of a freeware space flight simulator called Orbiter (see “Review: Orbiter space flight simulator”, The Space Review, November 14, 2005).
