Blue-Collar Astronaut

Get an A in ALL challenge mode levels.

Challenge mode is most difficult on the Driving School levels. On these levels you'll almost always have to avoid missiles which are heat seeking. This can be difficult considering you're usually manoeuvring through pylons. In most cases you're best doing what you did when getting A's through the story mode levels, as progressing to the goals as quickly as possible will allow you to avoid the missiles. Occasionally you'll get levels with increased gravity which seem impossible at first but aren't very hard with practice. Hint: use the power of their orbit.

The exception to this is a later level. You'll need to hit four goals in a sort of circle and then land back where you started. You'll know the level when you see it as it's the second time you play this level but this time you instead go right instead of left. The circle is fairly small, you're surrounded by pylon, and there are way too many missiles. The strategy I found that worked was to hit the 1st and 2nd goals and then fly outside the pylons as there is a small gap. Go over toward the 3rd goal and let the missile destroy the pylons. Quickly hit goal 3 and go toward goal 4. Don't go too quickly as the gravity is strong. By the time you hit goal 4 you should already be accelerating away from the planet. You'll have at least one more missile to avoid while doing this. This was probably the hardest level of Driving School for me.

In Pizza mode you usually have falling debris (like billboards) and sometimes increased gravity. Once again the second last level is the most difficult as it makes the goals/platforms really small. The second level is also hard as the two platforms attached to the planet have a line of cones on each side. A tip though, for the platform closest to your starting position you don't need to fly down into the goal; you can actually (slowly) float up beside the bottom of it under the cones and catch the corner long enough.

Trucker mode is surprisingly easy. There are two exceptions to this however. In the Hero Time level on Trucker the asteroid moves extremely quickly so you need to set the bombs flawlessly. Also, the last level of trucker depends almost entirely on luck. The physics are junk, the cruise ship your hauling bounces around and gets stuck in weird positions and the planet moves at a high speed in different direction and sucks you in with gravity. This was the most frustrating level for me in the entire game. Also, you'll have a picture of an Astronaut in the last few levels of Trucker. The more bonuses you get the happier the picture gets. For this level when the Astronaut gets the biggest smile you need to hit two more balls for the A rank.