Relativistic Physics of Spaceflight Simulator
Relspace

Here is a shareware educational program you can download and try on your computer. If you like what you see you can enable disabled features by paying a $10 registration fee.

Requirements: Windows 98 or Windows XP, 32MB video card with updated drivers

Recommended: Windows XP, 64MB NVIDIA video card with updated drivers.

Download ace file 10MB: relspace15.ace

OR download zip 15MB: relspace15.zip

No installation program and it doesn’t touch your system or registry in any way what-so-ever. But no liability is expressed or implied.


Download it and see if it works on your computer for free, and if you like what you see you can enable all its features by sending $10 to the address below. Be sure to include:

1. Street or email address to which I can send instructions.

2. An identification number which is found at the bottom of the small message screen which pops up when you click the Help menu item: “About this program”.

You will receive an activation code which will work only on your computer and instructions for where to put it.


The program is data driven, which means there is a text data file which has all the data for the objects in the program. There are instruction for adding your own data as you desire. There is also a scripting language for controlling the program from a file in order to create automated demonstrations with audio narrative. A few scripts are included.


Try a relativistic flight to Saturn and its moons.

See the effects of relativity on space, time and light.

Go to nearby stars and the planets around them.

See what black holes do to light

See pulsars and variable stars

See the globular clusters and galaxies that surround The Milky Way.

See the clouds of galaxies in our region of the universe.

Go into orbit around the planet of an unknown star Of a galaxy far far away.

Mitchell McKain

465 Penny Ave
Salt Lake City, UT 84115

Phone: 801-486-4260
E-mail: mitchellmckain@yahoo.com
About me:

I am an online physics instructor. I have a masters in physics from the University of Utah. I lost interest in pure research and found myself more interested in physics education and software so I abandoned my PHD project to spend all my time on this simulator and some teaching.

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