krpc VS ksp-kipc

There used to be https://krpc.github.io/krpc/ but no longer maintained AFIAK

Nevermind. The fix outlined here fixed the issue. Thanks for the quick fix on that! Looking forward to the 0.5.1 update!

You may want to give this a try: https://trpc.io/

Krpc: https://krpc.github.io/krpc/

It is one of the best games out there for doing actual learning while playing a game, and is respected among people who actually work on real life space programs. If you want to engage in programming through it, I recomment kRPC, which provides a protocol for interfacing it with external programs, so you can write your rocket controls in a number of actual programming languages.

I was able to work around this to manually install into my virtual environment instead of going through pip: https://github.com/krpc/krpc/issues/624

Potentially with kRPC will let you get the data and it supports various programming languages but I have very limited experience with it (basic launch scripts) but I know a lot is possible

Get Kerbal Space Program and use the kRPC mod to control it from your favorite programming language (Python, C++, etc.). Take a rocket, launch it into orbit, deorbit it, and propulsively soft-land it back onto the pad. For extra credit, artificially add noise/dropout to your sensor inputs, and then do the same thing.

It's controlled via the KRPC mod. Its a very good mod for what it is and is a greate alternative to KOS.

If you want to learn an actual language but still want KSP to be involved, another option may be kRPC (if it still exists nowadays), which allows you to write code that interacts with KSP in any compatible language like Python.

Disclaimer: My one and only KSP mod I've authored -- but no longer maintain -- was a toolkit to allow KRPC and KOS to talk to each other. One of the merits of it was that KOS is better for realtime control, but anything particularly expensive in calculations is far better 'outsourced' to KRPC where you have the full processing power and performance of your outside language. At the time, I was looking to create a full maneuver library in KOS and wanted to be able to calculate transfer trajectories ala Alexmoon's Launch Window Planner -- the KOS version of my implementation was far too slow to be be useful.