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After realizing I forgot to pack chutes on my mobile processing lab/rocket on both duna and minimus it seems as long as you EVA after entering the atmosphere and land in water with your kerbals you will survive. Or if for some reason you land on ground with your head you will survive. Saved me a lot of Kerbal cash that is for sure.

I am familar with how to calculate Delta V with the equation, . However, what I am uncertain of is how to accurately decide what specific impulse to use regarding atmosphere and a vaccum. Once I leave the atmosphere is it an instant change to a vaccum, or is it a gradual change? For example, this formula: seems like it could work, but if it is a gradual change seems inaccurate. Lastly, I am also uncertain what role thrust plays in Delta V for example: Thanks:confused:

I feel like a million bucks, and an idiot. I kept alt right clicking the hatches. Not just left clicking the hatches but everything is sorted. Thanks for all the help. Much more helpful community here than some others. Thanks!

I was having the same problem. You have to follow the tutorial exactly for it to progress to the next stage, even if it makes you worse off. I think the area you are at is where you use the RCS thrusters to get yourself to 0 meters per second relative to the target ship. What you have to do is keep holding H until it gets to 0. The problem is when you start getting near 0 the prograde switches to the opposite side and since you are going so slow you don't have the option to auto click prograde if you stop. The key is keep holding H and don't let up until you get to 0 exactly. If you do release H accidentally speed up a bit until you are moving fast enough to get the options to auto target and try again.

HA HA! Success! Thanks for the help. All good information. What really helped was the information targeting the opposite side to get the prograde in the target and video three. I still ended up retrograding quite a few times after a few passes but eventually got it. One last question that I can't seem to figure out is how do you internally transfer the stranded crew from ship to ship? I ended up just EVAing but that was a little stressful. Thanks again.

I have been avoiding docking since I got this game, I finally have a stranded Kerbal in orbit. I have figured out how to match the orbit and get to the target. However, what I can not seem to figure out is on the tutorial it says to keep the prograde matched with the target on docking. After numerous attempts and the stranded spacecraft not having any thrusters I can never seem to get the prograde matching the target and always end up hitting the wrong place on the spacecraft. Is there something I am missing, I can't seem to wrap my head around what direction I need to be going to manipulate the prograde to match the target? Thanks!

Perfect, excellent design.