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Wow, what a blast from the past; I can't believe this is still going! I can so clearly remember the excitement arout @inigma's original version of this thread a million years ago, and am so glad to see it continuing and evolving. I haven't dipped a toe in KSP in probably a couple of years at this point, but I try to jump into the forum/reddit from time to time to see what the community is up to. Can't believe I missed this continuation until now. Bookmarking for later, so I can go through when I have some time on my hands. That's all; thanks for humouring my journey down nostalgia lane.

I'm not finding a whole lot of time lately to do much beyond just a quick functionality check when new game versions come out. If you're interested, you're more than welcome to spinoff a version with more size options, especially if you'd be willing/able to address some of the great improvement suggestions by other posters. Our license allows you to remix and recreate as much as you like as long as you give us credit, don't try to get rich from it (ha! good luck!), and pay the freedom forward. Here's a link to the details.

I believe we should be back up and running on CKAN, but am away from my machine for the next few days. Chaosratt, would you be willing to test and report back?

Yeah, it's behaving the same way for me. Not sure why. I've posted a cry for help over on the CKAN thread. I'll get it resolved as soon as I can. Thanks again for pointing out the issue.

My part mod is updated for 1.0.2 on KerbalStuff, but not showing in CKAN against a 1.0.2 install. It worked for 0.90 (and still does if I select a 0.90 install). I think I set up my netkan entry to auto-update from KerbalStuff, but I'm a huge noob. Can somebody lend a hand and help me determine where I went wrong?

I'll take a look at this. When you say manually staging works, you mean with Spacebar, or with right-click/decouple (or both?). Hmmm...I was under the impression that CKAN automatically scraped KerbalStuff for updates. I'm new to CKAN so I'll have to look into this. Thanks for the heads-up. I don't know the answer to this either (hmmm...sensing a pattern here). I'll try and get a few tests in tonight.

So far so good. But they have not been exhaustively tested in the new aero, so please report back any odd behaviors.

Do you have all of the ET segments full with an empty (or light) cargo bay? That would likely pull the CoM over enough to result in the behaviour you're describing. [EDIT] Sorry, I see inigma already suggested looking at the fuel balance in a previous response. Ignore me.

Yikes! I am back to say: Well done, Aphobius. You're a magician with that 400km fuel pod mission. I tried to beat you with a bit of margin at 415 and didn't even come close to making it home afterwards. Looks like I have some ascent profile tweaking to do. Well played

Oh no! I thought I could take a day or two of rest. But with a challenge like that on the table....I'm coming for you Aphobius

I vote yes. I Price-is-Right-ed you for second place. Only fair that you should get a chance to do the same! [EDIT] Since I suspect that things are about to get competitive (in the most fun way!), and scores might start getting close, I should point out in the spirit of good sportsmanship, inigma, that you gave me credit for my apoapsis in the leaderboard, when the rules state periapsis. Those 40 meters might end up counting one day

You're the best. Thank you.

Wow, I love this shuttle. And I love the idea of these Challenges. Thanks for putting all this work in inigma. I started playing around with Intrepid over on the Reddit Challenge thread while trying to build my own (thanks so much for all your help over there, by the way inigma). I got so obsessed with playing around with this one, though, that I never even finished mine! (maybe that was your evil plan all along ) Below is an album from the maiden voyage of the Space Shuttle Fortunate. I believe this qualifies me for Pilot I and the Hall of Fame, but I'm not great with instructions so I'll need a judge's ruling. Final fuel pod orbit 303,640/303,600. A couple of notes on the mission: (1) I'm thoroughly embarrassed to have brought home a whopping 499 units of monoprop. I was not sure how much I would need for the return burn, and my head was still in no-mods-Reddit-Challenge mode, so it didn't occur to me to check my dV with KER (which was only a button-click away!). Anybody know how much more altitude I would have gotten had I used that monoprop? Wait, maybe I don't want to know.... (2) I didn't encounter the random-wing-explosion bug that seems to be going around, but take a look at the shot towards the end as I taxi off the runway. Not sure what's going on there.... [EDIT - Add RTLS Abort] Here's the almost-immediate, and slightly-less-successful, follow-up mission to the Fortunate, the Space Shuttle Hubris. Hopefully it's not KSP blasphemy to create a story in which Jeb makes a piloting mistake. I didn't actually realize until I launched the Hubris that it hadn't been Jeb piloting the Fortunate. Good thing in the end...not sure anyone else could have brought this thing home in one piece. [RE-EDIT] Re-adding my question about how to post an album so Deutherius doesn't look like a crazy person inventing quotes: "How is everybody embedding imgur albums right into their posts?"

Gaaaaaaahhhh! So stupid!!! THANK you!

This is amazing. I'm having so much fun with this shuttle. I am running into one small problem consistently though (and I am fully prepared to learn that I am doing something asinine): I can't seem to get the RCS systems on the MMUs to work (the ones included in the Operations Module). I load a kerbal into the seat and decouple from the shuttle, and nothing. I can control my attitude via the reaction wheel in the probe core (at least I assume that's how I'm doing it), but the RCS is doing nothing. Things I know or have tried: (1) RCS is on (I'm dumb, but not that dumb) (2) Plenty of monopropellant (haven't been able to use any!) (3) Both MMUs with multiple kerbals (4) Refocused on multiple vessels (worth a shot) (5) Returned to space center and then back to ship (also worth a shot) (6) Load a new ship and launch all over again -- same result Also potentially worth noting is that the right-click menu for the kerbal seems to still be the EVA one (e.g. has "EVA Report" as an option) while he is sitting in the MMU seat. I don't have enough experience with the command seat to know if this is out of the ordinary. any idea what I could be doing wrong?