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The best realistic space simulation games

Like civilian flight sims, realistic space simulator games (as Wikipedia calls them) allow the player to pilot a space vehicle in a realistic way, with no science fiction involved in any way: no aliens, no star wars ships. Realistic space sims usully obey the (simulated) laws of physics in a scrict way.
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Apollo 18: Mission to the Moon

DOS1987 Artech Studios
Apollo 18: Mission to the Moon (1987) lets you relive the lunar missions in all their... spreadsheet-like glory. This game is as educational as it is punishing; you’ll learn ...
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Buzz Aldrin's Race into Space

DOS1993 Strategic Visions
Finally, a game where you don’t blast aliens—you launch real people into space, with all the white-knuckled tension of 1960s NASA. Buzz Aldrin’s Race into Space i...
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Orbiter

DOSMac OS1986 Spectrum HoloByte
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Shuttle: The Space Flight Simulator

DOS1992 Vektor graphics
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Microsoft Space Simulator

DOS1994 The Bruce Artwick Organization
Microsoft Space Simulator is a space flight simulator game developed by Bruce Artwick Organization and published by Microsoft in 1994. It is part of the broader range of simulation...
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Project: Space Station

DOS1987 Micro Imagery
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Space MAX

DOS1992 Starbyte Software
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