NASA-worker on ED (Reddit-post)

I found this quite interesting - hope it fits here:

Quote from justjosh75

(originally posted this in /r/oculus, and someone suggested to post here instead.)

After over 10 years of working with NASA's Cassini spacecraft mission at Saturn and wondering what it would be like to be there, I can't express how rewarding and mind-blowing it was to actually get to fly above the rings of a Saturn-like planet in my own Virtual Reality spacecraft!

I've worked closely with the images from the Cassini mission and I can tell you Elite did such a wonderful job capturing the scale, shadows, beautiful colors and intricate patterns of a ringed planet. Skimming over the ring plane, diving through the ring gaps, marveling at the massive amount of simulated ring particles while the enormous planet body engulfs my field of view; I can't get enough of it! Not only that, but it looks like a lot of the icy moons in Elite are modeled after the moons of Saturn and Jupiter. The approach and takeoff vistas from moons leave me grinning every time, too.

In case you haven't seen the photos from this mission, check out a few of these websites for comparison to Elite:

best cassini images - Google-Suche

Cassini: Mission to Saturn: Hall of Fame

Cassini’s 10th anniversary: The mission’s greatest images of Saturn.

Now if i can just get my Federation rank up, I want to make the pilgrimage to Sol and see how well they actually modeled Saturn proper and its moons.

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I work with NASA's Cassini spacecraft mission at Saturn. From the bottom of my heart: thank you, Elite:Dangerous! : EliteDangerous

A bit further down the discussion another NASA-worker gives a statement and original writer tells a funny story about his boss and ED, too...

2^nd one was amazed that the amount of brown dwarfs and binary-systems was like it should be.