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A downloadable mission pack, made in partnership with NASA, is in the works that will allow players to put Kerbals on an asteroid. It will be one of the most complex and dangerous missions in an already difficult game.

Players will first have to launch a spacecraft to fly alongside the asteroid, the equivalent of parallel parking one missile next to another. Then they will have to push the giant rock into a stable orbit around the Kerbal's home planet without creating an extinction-level impact below. Finally, they'll need to safely land on it.

The mission pack will represent everything terrifying and wonderful about manned spaceflight. To Falanghe and his team it's more than an opportunity. It's a genuine privilege.

"I look up to NASA as one of the pinnacles of human achievement," Falanghe says. "It's not just an American space program. It's an inspiration for all mankind."