The original  game was computer  version of  the Liftoff! board  game by
Fritz  Bronner. It  was  developed  by  Fritz  and  Michael  McCarty  at
Strategic Visions and published by Interplay  in as a disk based game in
1992 and a CD-ROM in 1994.

People who have contributed to the open-source version:

	Michael K McCarty <mkmccarty@raceintospace.org>
	Pace Willisson <pace@alum.mit.edu>
	Krzysztof Kosciuszkiewicz <k.kosciuszkiewicz@gmail.com>
  Will Glynn <delta407@lerfjhax.com>
