60 Years in Space

You are Mission Control. And you must navigate your crew through the next 60 years of humanity's exploration and exploitation of space, as you create the future you want. Or fear.

This time the conquest of space is economically driven, enabled by a confluence of events and technologies including the falling price of getting to low Earth orbit and the use of 3D printing and in-situ resource utilization to enable factories to be constructed at extraterrestrial claims. The re-emergence of nuclear power as a popular power generation alternative to renewables enables megawatt-scale rockets to explore the solar system with greater range that conventional chemical rockets, either by directly heating propellant or by powering highly fuel efficient electric rocket engines capable of long range missions to the outer reaches of the solar system.

And humans in space matter. The complex technological overheads required for a crew module are needed to keep missions from succumbing to unplanned glitches 10s or 100s of AU from Earth. You must manage both your crew and your mission control staff as you attempt to industrialise distant worlds throughout our solar system to gain access to revolutionary new technologies. But as you do so, technology will change you as well, transforming your personnel into different splinters of humanity and eventually new species. How you cope with these changes is up to you.

The 60 Years In Space is the officially licensed TTRPG of the High Frontier board game.

What you can get:

• Sixty Years In Space - play as a space agency solitaire, GMless or as the game moderator in charge of a mission to another world - 294 pages.  The Infrastructure chapter can be downloaded for free. Includes the Faction builder for creating the factions you'll encounter throughout the solar system.
• Crewed Rules - the Crewed Rules let you play as individual crew on one of the missions run by Mission Control - 226 pages. The first 74 pages can be downloaded for free.
  
• All Errors are My Own - Mission control and social trends and factions for all eras on Earth and beyond - 661 pages
  
• This Space Intentionally - Trade and colonies in the Upported eras and beyond - 245 pages. Includes Mission, Site, Colony and Spacecraft builders.
• (A)-Base (D)-Landing - Exploration and exploitation on the surface of extraterrestrial worlds in the Colonization era and beyond - 293 pages. Includes Site Map and Robot builders and base construction and colony administration systems for new colonies.
  
• A Facility with Words - Improvements, exfiltration and combat from the Exoglobalization era and beyond - 265 pages. Includes a life path character generation system for professionals, exoarchitects and the bottom rung.
• Colony:Sub/title: - Ventures, alien ecosystems and in-atmospheric travel in the Future era - 141 pages. Includes posthuman character generation.
• A Lot of Zeroes - A solo and coop sequel about mapping journeys through the Milky Way with an immortal crew -  211 pages. Includes Star and Solar System, World, Life, Megastructure and Virch builders. The first 48 pages can be downloaded for free.
• 6 Meals in Space - Let’s face it. The above page counts are “a bit much”. 6 Meals in Space is a PWYW 1 column game inspired by 60 Years in Space with the same vibes but different rules.

Sixty Years in Space has the highly coveted Atomic Rockets Seal of Approval. You can read more about it here.