60 Years in Space

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Added 9/16/2025 7:40:32
Modified 9/16/2025 7:54:44
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Library Itch.io
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Platform Physical
Release Date 2/26/2023
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Description

You are a High Frontier crew: 4 astronauts in a 40 tonne crew module, equipped with on board chemical rockets and prospecting gear for in situ resource utilization (ISRU) recovery of water from ice frozen in the regolith on high hydration sites like Mars and Ceres. Water is the key to unlocking the solar system: it can be used as rocket propellant and fuel, as well as supporting industrialization on extraterrestrial sites to build new technologies which cannot be constructed on Earth.

The best sites have already been claimed by the first wave of explorers, and you will travel through a solar system in the midst of rapid change as the high frontier becomes colonized. Your crew will be supported by a mission control back on Earth, which acts as a common pool of recruits to replace lost or stranded astronauts, as well as provide remote finance, research and engineering assistance. The 60 Years In Space role-playing game is as much about the evolution of your Mission Control as it is your crew: you will be responsible for defining how you react to the changing social and technological milieu of the 21st century, as well as the frictions experienced by returning to a Mission Control which may no longer recognize or support you following your decades of isolation in space.

While this is happening, you and the rest of the crew are aging and atrophying, drifting away from the Earth-side. You must push beyond the outer limits of known space, holding onto or letting go of your humanity to survive.

The 60 Years In Space is the officially licensed TTRPG of the High Frontier board game.

What you can get:

  • Sixty Years In Space - core (Crewed) rules - 324 pages. The first 113 pages can be downloaded for free.
  • This Space Intentionally - Missions and colonies in the Baseline and Upported eras and beyond - 339 pages. Includes Mission, Site, Colony and Spacecraft builders. The Infrastructure chapter can be downloaded for free.
  • (A)-Base (D)-Landing - Exploration and exploitation on the surface of extraterrestrial worlds in the Colonization era and beyond - 287 pages. Includes Site Map and Robot builders and base construction and colony administration systems for new colonies.
  • A Facility with Words - Improvements, exfiltration and combat from the Exoglobalization era and beyond - 258 pages. Includes a life path character generation system for professionals, exoarchitects and the bottom rung.
  • All Errors are My Own - Mission control and social trends and factions for all eras on Earth and beyond - 658 pages
  • A Lot of Zeroes - A solo and coop sequel about mapping journeys through the Milky Way with an immortal crew -  208 pages. Includes Star and Solar System, World, Life, Megastructure and Virch builders. The first 48 pages can be downloaded for free.
  • 6 Meals in Space - Let’s face it. The above page counts are “a bit much”. 6 Meals in Space is a PWYW 1 column game inspired by 60 Years in Space with the same vibes but different rules.


Sixty Years in Space has the highly coveted Atomic Rockets Seal of Approval. You can read more about it here.