The guidance computer flies the eight-minute braking burn from 450 km out, exactly like the flown missions — throttle recovery, pitch-over, the approach glide. At low gate (150 m) it calls "you have control" and you land it by hand, like Armstrong. Ranked on its own leaderboard.

Hand-fly the S-IC's pitch program at real speed: hold the guidance needle centered from the tilt kick to staging. Stray too far and range safety calls an abort; hold a bad angle through max-Q and the stack breaks up — the escape tower is your way out. A clean insertion plus a precise TLI cutoff is scored 0–1000 and ranked on the global launch leaderboard; a sloppy launch also makes your landing start a little harder.