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The sci-fi interface impedes the app’s primary purpose of providing simple, useful information. Launch times are given countdown-style (27 days, 16 hours and 42 minutes) instead of easily understandable date/time: why not give users the option to toggle between countdown and clock time? If the time now is 8:33am, and the launch countdown says, ‘00:00:0037’, why does the user have to mentally translate the countdown into a launch time of 9:10? Also, there’s no way to transfer a countdown value of “15:22:0019” to iCalendar to set a reminder alarm. If the app provides its own reminder alarms, it’s not readily evident. Frankly, a simple list display of dates, times, rocket type and payload type, would be much simpler to program, easier to understand, and consume the least iPhone memory & battery resources. I rate this app clever and useful, but seriously handicapped by the fact that the authors spent a lot of time inventing a confusing, science fiction-like interface at the expense of adding helpful features.

This WAS my “go-to” app for launches when it first came out. It was the most reliable source of information among all the websites covering the launches at Cape Canaveral, FL. As I live five miles away from the space center, am a photographer and a rocket enthusiast, I need reliable and useful information. This app’s quirky countdown page has been truncated on my display to only show days and hours (not minutes) with the time display shifted to the right, moving the minutes off the screen. Also the “Mission Details” page that used to show the upcoming type of rockets to be launched has been just a blank overlay for at least a year. Then when the screen is touched, the app crashes. Also, approaching launch times, the video sometimes shows the general info video on one device and the launch countdown video live-feed on another! Please update this app.

I like the app, just wish it would have some better functionality. There is an internet website version of this app that was around before they made this one. What I like about that one, and this is only my preference, is it shows the seconds in the countdown. This app only shows days, hours, minutes. Whats fun about watching launches is knowing when it’s T-minus 10 seconds especially when you don’t live by the space center. I live about 50 miles away and can’t always get to the coast to watch. Second issue and this is common with all these type of apps, it that the countdown is always off by about 10-15 seconds. Used it for multiple launches and as the countdown on the app approaches 12, 11, 10, 9. Etc. there is the rocket already in the sky heading to orbit! Contacted developers repeatedly, but like all of you here writing reviews, all go unanswered and no fixes ever.