Apollo // Spaceflight

Apollo // Spaceflight is a small flight sim in miniature, drawn entirely in ASCII on a mission-control screen.

Count down, lift off, stage away, and coast through the dark toward one of the seven other planets of the solar system — drawn at random each flight. Steer clear of the rocks, pick up stardust, and mind your fuel.

The flight

• A three-stage launch vehicle lifts off, stages, and jettisons its escape tower on the way up.
• The cruise is 12 challenges: rock fields, micrometeoroids, comet tails, stardust runs, nav corridors, coast phases, burn windows and solar flares.
• Pass a challenge and the science team sends down a line about where you're headed.
• Rocks dent the hull. Boost doubles your speed but drains the tank fast — run dry and you're left drifting.
• Make orbit to learn something real about your destination and see your score: stardust, challenges passed, hull and fuel left, plus a bonus for a quick flight.

Details

• Rendered glyph-by-glyph as a living ASCII scene.
• Sound is fully synthesized — engine rumble, staging clanks, the Quindar pips of the Apollo loop — with a CAPCOM voice calling the flight (English & Vietnamese).
• Plays in English and Vietnamese — switch any time.
• Keyboard or touch. No install, no account.

Controls

• Steer: ← → or A / D
• Boost: hold Space
• Mute: M
• Touch: hold the left/right side to steer, hold the middle to boost

Distances are each planet's closest approach to Earth. The flight, admittedly, runs a little quicker than real life.

▶ Prefer full-screen, or on mobile? Play the original at apollo-site.com/spaceflight — bilingual (EN/VI), always shows the full mission console.

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Credits

• Design & development — the Apollo team
• Rendering — a hand-built ASCII engine (every frame drawn glyph by glyph)
• Sound — synthesized live with the Web Audio API; CAPCOM voice in English & Vietnamese

Thanks for flying. See you in orbit. 🚀