Bethesda Took These Starfield Players To Real Life Space Camp

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Bethesda brought a few content creators over to the US Space and Rocket Center for a unique experience. To prepare for Starfield, they got to play in a real life space camp.

Tiktokers Astro Alexandra and Filip Zieba, and YouTubers Myth and LilyPichu, were all brought to Huntsville, Alabama, to see some of the artifacts of NASA’s own space exploration, as well as get a real life feel of what it would be like to really imagine yourself going out into space.

The US Space and Rocket Center is essentially the NASA Museum that is open to the public. It does also offer the US Space Camp, an educational camp that gives anyone the chance to experience what it would be like to be an astronaut. The camp these content creators got to experience was basically the short tour, to relate to some things that they can also experience in Starfield.

For their first Space Camp experience, the content creators were placed in the 1/6^th chair. This isn’t exactly like a chair for sitting, as it’s a contraption that allows the rocket center to simulate the gravity of the moon, and other planets. They practiced different jumps with different gravities, to simulate using the Starfield boost packs to get around planets.

Their second experience, was, well, an actual honest to goodness simulation of what you would do in the International Space Station. The content creators were tasked with repairing the ammonia tank assembly, referred to by the technical name of EVA, or extravehicular assembly. All that means is any work done outside a spacecraft. The name of this task was teamwork, which is also something you’ll need with your NPC teammates in Starfield. I suppose it’s actually kind of a boring task, unless you’ve seen the Sandra Bullock film Gravity