In this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to YouTube celebrity and fallen astronomer Scott Manley, a space-savvy caster who can teach you to play the notoriously difficult spaceflight simulator, Kerbal Space Program.

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Kerbal rocketeer/astronomy school dropout/software developer Scott Manley. Credit: Scott Manley/The Internet
Kerbal rocketeer/astronomy school dropout/software developer Scott Manley. Credit: Scott Manley/The Internet

Scott Manley’s 360 asteroids-in-the-night-sky video.

Scott plays Kerbal Space Program with a real (former) NASA astronaut.

The official website of Kerbal Space Program.

The Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland (a place with a turbulent political history).

Dan Leone is a SpaceNews staff writer, covering NASA, NOAA and a growing number of entrepreneurial space companies. He earned a bachelor’s degree in public communications from the American University in Washington.