Chiron0224

yeah, I saw that. Even though he probably had the idea on his own rather than as a response to this challenge, I'll add him to the board anyway.

I personally didn't and the challenge doesn't require it but you are certainly welcome to in order to increase realism.

I think many of you have hit the nail on the head. I think a memorial for Yuri Gagarin would be quite appropriate since he was first in space and Armstrong for the moon landing. Additional astronauts would go well on like a big monolith that would count for all fallen astronauts. As for the argument that there are a lot of games about space, that's true but this game is specifically about spaceflight whereas Elite: Dangerous is sci fi, so it's apples and oranges. This game in particular would make sense to have memorials in it, but I agree with not flooding it for every single astronaut ever.

Sorry to keep messing up the scoring. I'm trying to figure out the best way to do it.

@tg626 Nice! I like it better than the one I'm building right now. For scoring purposes, what's the tonnage?

Godspeed John Glenn. This is my first time submitting a challenge but I felt that this would be a great way to honor a great man. The challenge is this, launch a one manned capsule into Kerbal orbit using a launch vehicle with restrictions inspired by the Atlas that John Glenn used in Mercury. 1. All of the capsule's liquid fuel engines must ignite on the ground. 2. The capsule needs to complete orbit and de-orbit with solid rockets 3. The capsule must sit atop a liquid fueled rocket that is not separated into verticle stages and must have extra engines that stage off during ascent (basically no verticle staging, but the rocket must have a "half stage" with one big tank and staged off engines like an Atlas). 4. Capsule must return to Kerbin safely and splash down. Screw scoring. Let's just honor John Glenn. If you honored Glenn you go on the board. Tributes thus far (in no particular order). 1. @tg626 2. @Jestersage 3. @Rhomphaia 4. @JacobJHC 5. @Chiron0224 6. @illectro <- Scott didn't respond directly to this challenge but I added him to the board of tributes for having the same idea and doing it on his channel here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9OQOgMg80s No cheaty mods obviously and no Bluedog (you can't just build an actual atlas). Let me know if I need to tweak this challenge at all. I don't imagine it will be all that difficult for many of you, I'm mostly just doing this as a community salute of sorts EDIT: finally did my submission https://imgur.com/gallery/LEiBn

Godspeed John Glenn. I will be flying an Atlas rocket using Bluedog Design Bureau in his honor tonight when I get home from work.

helped tremendously. Also DPAI has already been mentioned several times in this thread and I'll say that I won't play without it. I dock all the time now. My Duna mission that I did recently was Apollo style and I often build orbital stations over the course of multiple launches.

I'm to the point now where in career mode I turn of respawning and manage to have my Kerbals live long enough to retire. My exception is Jeb. For some reason (and I'm not doing this on purpose) I manage to kill Jebediah in every single career save game. It's not a matter of him having a long enough career that death becomes inevitable. I manage to actually retire Valentina and some other pilots most of the time. I just always end up killing Jeb due to bad luck.

One trick is to arrange them in accordance with the faces of a platonic solid. Another way to say that is to arrange them like the faces of a die. So if you know the dice used in D&D this will be familiar, if not you can google them. So if you have 4 solar panels you want to arrange them in the pattern of the surfaces of a tetrahedron (or d4 to continue the die analogy) if you have 6 arrange them in the six faces of a cube, if 8 then arrange them like an octahedron or d8. These arrangements will guarantee that at least one of them is always facing the sun. I should also note that certain shapes are made necessary by the design of your craft (for example, it would be hard to do the cube since the bottom of your craft has an engine where your panel should go, but you could do a tetrahedron instead).

My most recent fail is that I sent a mission to Duna and they pulled off their objectives without issue and then burned for home. I got an encounter with Kerbin but I forgot to do a midcourse correction to fine tune it. They entered Kerbin's SOI but they were so high in the gravity well and were going so fast that they didn't have enough fuel to get a capture and come home. I then launched a big expensive rocket with a probe core to go rescue them and bring them home. I set my maneuver node to execute an escape burn that would get me a close rendezvous as well and started to burn only to realize that my node had me pointed into Kerbin's atmosphere and the rescue craft wound up burning up in atmo. I then launched another big expensive rescue rocket only to realize after putting it into orbit that it doesn't have an antenna. I then launched yet another big expensive rescue rocket (my agency is now almost bankrupt) and this time I put an empty three man capsule on it for the crew being rescued and a one man capsule for the pilot so that I don't have to have a damned probe core and antenna this time. lol. Here's hoping this one works.

There's this mod But a master list of transfer windows would be cool since I assume they fall on the same days on the same years in every career mode.

Manned Duna landing is probably your next step. I've only done it a couple of times but I do mine Apollo style with a Command and service mother ship and a disposable lander. One advantage that Duna has is that it has an atmosphere so you can make use of parachutes to help kill velocity thus conserving a lot of fuel on the lander. Here is an album of my own Duna mission, don't click if you don't want spoilers and want to figure it out on your own but do click it if you want an example of one way it can be done http://imgur.com/gallery/BCeWu

It took me a second but I realized that you were combining "Space" with "Pesos". Freaking brilliant.

First off, in the future questions like these belong in Gameplay Questions/Tutorials. The mods will probably move this thread soon. With that out of the way you'll notice that decouplers have little red arrows on them. The direction the arrow is pointing shows the part that will be removed and the wide part of the arrow is the part that will remain attached to the decoupler. So in your picture you have a decoupler on one end that will be forever attached. The other decoupler, with the fuel tank still attached will be able to decouple completely taking the fuel tank with it. If you can't find it in the staging sequence you can also right click and then click "decouple". Hope that helps Bonus tip: Decouplers only decouple one direction as mentioned above but stack separators decouple above and below so for certain applications they are what you need.