For years, astronauts and cosmonauts have traveled to the International Space Station on Soyuz rockets launched from Kazakhstan. But later this month, NASA is about to send astronauts to the space station on a SpaceX rocket launched from the United States.

To commemorate this major event, Private Division, publisher of Kerbal Space Program 2, is challenging KSP players to recreate this mission in their game. Simulate the mission as accurately as possible based on the mission information provided on the DM-2 page, the last test flight before SpaceX's Crew Dragon was certified for an operational mission. Be sure to record your flight and upload the video you took to Twitter. Upload it as a reply to the original tweet (below) or as a separate tweet tagging @KerbalSpaceP, @NASA, @SpaceX and using the #LaunchAmerica hashtag.

The rules are very simple: you may or may not use the MOD. The best entry, determined by an unknown party using an unknown formula, will be shared with NASA.

Of course, the Kerbal Space Program is a notoriously easy game to snag and destroy; as 4000-hour player Daniel told us a few years ago, trying to place Kerbals in space "gets complicated and explodes." Indeed, in an August 2019 interview with KSP2 creative director Nate Simpson, the explosions came out almost immediately: "The explosions became very exciting."

"Kerbal Space Program 2" is currently scheduled to launch before March 2021. The actual DM-2 launch will be streamed live on NASA TV on May 27 at 12 p.m. ET.