Anachronda

0.18. Since then, I've had no audio in the map view.

Or, to quote Douglas Adams, the secret to flying is to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Coupla links to photos, which I posted in the Science forum: http://itar-tass.com/kultura/1029229 http://glavcom.ua/photo/2142-1.html

And a bunch more: http://glavcom.ua/photo/2142-1.html

http://itar-tass.com/kultura/1029229 Some of the captions (my Russian's not the best): 1: Smolensk Oblast. The house in which Yuri Gagarin was born. 2: Smolensk Oblast. Yuri Gagrin (1st left) among the members of a volleyball team in 1950. 3: (kinda fuzzy on this one) Yuri Gagarin at some sort of casting machine in a factory named Utomski operated by the Lyuberetski forging guild. 4: Yuri Gagarin by his first airplane, a Yak-18 in 1955. 5: Yuri Gagarin swimming in the Volga in 1955. 6: Yuri Gagarin and his wife Valentina in 1957. 7: Yuri Gagarin, his wife Valentina, and daughter Lena in 1959. 8: Yuri Gagarin and Sergei Korolev, 1961. 9: Yuri Gagarin before his space flight, 1961. 10: Launch of the spaceship "Vostok-1", April 12, 1961. 11: Yuri Gagarin and Nikita Khrushchev, April 14, 1961. 12: Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR Yuri Gagarin, 1965. 13: Yuri Gagarin dressed as a Musketeer with his daughters Gala and Lena and Ira Kamarova before New Year's, 1965. 14: Pilot-cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and Aleksey Leonov on a hunt, 1966. 15: Yuri Gagarin and his daughter Lena on an outing, 1965. 16: Funeral of Pilot-Cosmonaut and Hero of the Soviet Union, Colonel Yuri Gagarin and Hero of the Soviet Union Engineer-Colonel Vladimir Seregin. 17: Burial place of Yuri Gagarin in the Kremlin wall 18: Place of death of Yuri Gagarin, Vladimirskaya Oblast 19: Favorite car of Yuri Gagarin, a black "Volga" GAZ-21 in a museum in Gagarin City (formerly Gzhatsk), 2001. 20: Moscow. Memorial to the first cosmonaut, 1980. 21: (no caption)

IME, it's caused by two things ganging up A) a very circular orbit; the closer you are to circular, the more they bounce around and 2) ASAS, which is constantly applying small accelerations to the ship; the closer the orbit is to circular, the more these small accelerations matter to AP and PE positions. TL;DR edition: turn ASAS off.

Oops.

Assembling my latest fuel truck in orbit. I didn't take a shot of the starting configuration, because it wasn't until I almost clipped off one of my lights that I realized there might be some hijinks worth saving. But you can see the basic idea. The top stage of the fuel truck, as launched, consisted of a lander pod crewed by the intrepid Gilmund Kerman, attached to a nuke by a pair of Clamp-o-Tron Seniors. Then I sent up a probe with a top stage consisting of a probe core and a thrust package bracketing an orange tank with the Seniors. Having discarded the probe's thrust package, I'm now reconfiguring into fuel truck mode. This consists of moving the fuel truck's nuke to the end of the probe's orange tank. then disconnecting the probe core and rotating the fuel truck's control module into its place. That was a bit tricky in that the center of mass around which the combined control modules rotated wasn't the physical center, so I had to stop for a moment and crab away from the orange tank. Once Gilmund was in place, the probe core is discarded et voila fuel truck!

I have run it on my trusty HP Mini 210, but gave it up as unplayable. The machine is so weak that I couldn't even get stable altitude readings while sitting on the pad. On a 1024x600 screen, you won't be able to change most settings. The settings screens have grown quite large in recent versions, pushing the Accept, Apply, etc. buttons (as well as many settings) off the bottom of a screen that small.

I use both hands so I can use the WASDQE,SHIFT,CTRL *and* the IJKL keys.

CP/K -- Control Program for Kerbals

The Curiosity rover has taken pictures of Phobos transiting the Sun. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA17356

This is the sort of situation "set as target" is intended to handle. Bring up the menu of the docking port on the station with which you want to dock. Click "set as target". The target indicator on your navball will now refer to that docking port instead of the command pod.

I like it. Of course, if I find an alien on the Mun, I'll be calling him Üуýтøú. https://www.youtube.com/user/luntik

If it's not stationary, it's not exactly a space station, is it. More of a space station wagon...

Well, here's what I do. I'm an uncoordinated idiot, but I'm getting to the point where I can just fly in and dock, no muss, no fuss. The ship with which I am docking is in an equatorial orbit with its docking port pointing south. This means that the docking ship will be pointing north. This makes the goal of the docking game be to move the target indicator on the navball to the intersection between the north, red, line and the horizon line on the navball. In addition to the target position and velocity indicators, there's that little thingie in the center of the navball that that looks like a V with wings. This represents you. I orient my ship to the intersection of north and the horizon, which is where the target will eventually wind up. Then I rotate my ship using Q and E so that target position indicator is lined up with the wings on the V thingie (i.e., until it's more or less horizontal). This means I can point at the target using A and D. It also means that the wings of the V thingie lie on a great circle between the target position and the intersection and north and the horizon. Now it's just a matter of walking the target along that great circle until it reaches the intersection. If my prograde velocity vector is to the left of the target position, the target will move to the right. If it's above the target position, the target will move down. If it's to the right of the target position, the target will move left. Etc. Using RCS translations, I can move my velocity vector relative to the direction of the target, which means that I can move the target in any direction that I want. So it becomes just a matter of marching the target along the wings of the V until it reaches the intersection. Once it does so, I use the RCS translations to ensure that my velocity vector is pointing straight at the target.

I take a slightly different approach. Instead of having a fuel depot, I have a fuel truck in Kerbin orbit. That decoupler between the fuel tanks keeps the fuel truck from burning the fuel that it is trying to deliver. When something needs to be refueled, I loft a gas tank and use the fuel truck to move fuel between the gas tank and the thing that needs to be refueled. Here's my standard gas tank, which makes it to low orbit with a bit more fuel than can be moved by the fuel truck. And here's my fuel truck refueling the largest think I have ever managed to put into orbit, Big Boy X1 I only got Big Boy X1 into orbit by allowing the booster to drain those big tanks through its mainsails, so it arrived to orbit empty. Since it has nine times the capacity of the fuel truck, it'll take me 18 dockings (and 9 gas tanks) to refuel it. On the up side, I'm getting to where I can now just fly in and dock, no muss no fuss.

Yeah, I've been an off and on rocketeer since 7th grade. One of my most satisfying scratch-built rockets was the Junk Fax Avenger. It consisted of a junk fax, some scotch tape, some fins hacked out of balsa, a straightened out paper clip (to hold the motor), and a plastic Easter egg for the nosecone. Flew great on a C.

Beautiful launch.

Prototype space hotel. Launched with some Madagascar hissing cockroaches aboard as experimental passengers. That's right, the first space hotel was infested with cockroaches before anyone even stayed there.

It's amazing how many of my Kerbals' last words are something like "maybe I'll land over there instead" or "I bet I can get a bit closer" or even "ooh! shiny!"

You are inside a large building, an assembly building for vehicles. There are some fuel tanks on the ground here. There is an aerospike engine here. There are moar boosters here. There is a strut here. >

Sounds like you're burning prograde after escaping Kerbin instead of retrograde. I've made it to Eve using info from the guide. 'Course, my approach is a touch different because I'm both an idiot and uncoordinated. I escape Kerbin then get my ship and the planet lined up (more or less; I'm just eyeballing things) the way the guide says the two planets should be lined up.

http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Dynamics-Aeronautical-Engineering-ebook/dp/B008TVEBL6/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1349724115&sr=1-1&keywords=space+dynamics Kinda dense, but it's cheap. Other books I've seen on the subject are over $100.

As I understand it, this was to be the last launch with the model C engine. They're supposed to be moving to a new, improved model D engine.