YMMV / Buzz Aldrin Race Into Space

• Fridge Logic:
  • Minishuttles remain in your inventory even if you get them stranded in space or exploding on atmospheric re-entry.
  • Astronauts can, and often do die due to hypoxia from being stranded in space; from crashing into the moon; or from lunar passes/orbits gone horribly wrong in which they fail to manoeuvre back to Earth and thus enter heliocentric orbit. This makes their bodies unrecoverable, and thus their is nothing to bury. However, deaths on re-entry may still provide bodies to bury as with the aforementioned case of Komarov, or with the crew of Space Shuttles Challenger and Columbia.
• Harsher in Hindsight: One of the failure scenarios is a spacecraft disintegrating upon reentry due to a failed heat shield. The game was released in 1993, 10 years before the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, which was also the first time such a scenario happened in real life.
• Too Cool to Live: Astronauts killed in training prior to their first space flight are often given high stats e.g. Iven Kincheloe, Elliot See, Charles Basset.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Burning up on reentry, especially after a successful moon mission.
  • For manned orbital labs having the worst possible docking outcome (spacecraft colliding with docking module) leading to both spacecraft being destroyed and all astronauts on both teams being killed.
  • When rocket scientists go forward and say that "the next mission has a 50% chance of exploding on launch".
  • The failures you can experience, with the worst part being that similar disasters happened IRL, some years after the game was released:
    • Parachute failure causing a capsule to hit the Earth like a meteor and kill its occupant(s) (for the NSFW Nausea Fuel that ensues, click here for images of Vladimir Komarov's open casket funeral)
    • A failed heat shield causing a spacecraft to burn up or break up in the upper atmosphere, which could still happen while returning from a successful Moon Landing.
    • Having the Oxygen supply contribute to or cause a fire inside a space capsule. This happened to both the Soviets and the Americans.
    • Losing the atmosphere inside a spacecraft while in space, usually resulting from damage due to failed docking, but can also be a design flaw as in Soyuz 11.
    • A rocket explodes on the launchpad. This happened to the Americans' first attempt at an orbital satellite and much more spectacularly with all attempts with the Soviets' N1 rocket, which was intended for manned Moon Landings and serves as the Saturn V equivalent in this game.

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