Polygon has a very nice long form article up about Kerbal Space Program, my favorite video game, how it came to be, and the fact that it will be collaborating with NASA! Well worth a read.

“Kerbal Space Program is, at its core, a rocketry simulation. When it first became available for download it had a limited scope. There was a large hangar full of parts and little green pilots, a launchpad with a button to push and a patch of sky to fall through when it inevitably all went wrong.

Since the da...