Leaving Earth: Outer Planets

For ordering a physical copy of the game, see Lumenaris: Base Game: https://lumenaris.com/leavingearth.html Expansion: https://lumenaris.com/leavingearth_outerplanets.html To play the base game of Leaving Earth, see this mod Leaving Earth Description The year is 1956. Mankind stands at the dawn of a new age, the Space Age, when the flying bombs of yesteryear will become the rocket ships of tomorrow. As the director of a national space program, your country is depending on you for success in this great contest. You may be the first to create an artificial satellite, send a probe to another planet, or even put a man on the moon. Leaving Earth is a game about planning and about managing risk. With even a single grand journey into outer space, you might claim victory in the game. Consequently, it is your job to plan each journey carefully, finding the cheapest, quickest, and safest ways to reach your objective — but do not spend too long preparing, or another nation might reach their goal before you. Explore the giant planets of the outer solar system all the way into 1986 in this major expansion for Leaving Earth. Visit the four great moons of Jupiter, see the rings of Saturn, search for life on mysterious Titan, and fly by the distant planets Uranus and Neptune. Time your launches right, and you can use the gravitational pull of one planet to slingshot you to another. If everything lines up correctly, you can even visit all the outer planets in a single grand tour. Outer Planets builds on the rules of Leaving Earth, adding several new features, including: scientists who can study samples without having to bring them home to Earth, slingshot maneuvers that are easy to use (but only available during certain years), exploration that changes the available missions on the table, aerobraking as a dangerous way to perform maneuvers with much less fuel, and several new types of probes to explore icy surfaces and dense atmospheres. Boardgamegeek entry: https://boardgamegeek.co