Wow, I can't believe I haven’t thought of mentioning this here yet!
There is an extremely awesome program on the internet to download for free called Orbiter (Some of you probably have heard of it). It is a real time space flight simulator, using real physics and the like. I’m sure a lot of you would be quite interested in this.
It can be found here,
http://www.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/~martins/orbit/orbit.html A new version has only fairly recently come out, so it’s pretty up to date at the moment.
Every wanted to fly the Cassini mission in real time (7 years, yeah right
. There are several time accelerations) using a real physics engine? Well here’s your chance!
I strongly recommend checking it out. Though, don’t think its going to be easy. There is A LOT of stuff to learn if you want to fully learn the program.
Anyway, hope you guys like this!