AncientAstronaut

Keep this thread alive. It's AWESOME.

Well he is completely correct.

You OBVIOUSLY were NOT around when .14 came out, got delayed 50 times and the experimentals angered nearly everyone.

Landing from 2.5 --> 3km is MUCH more realistic to an actual Apollo descent profile. It's also the best way to land. Start from a low periapsis of 3km and just practice killing your vertical speed enough to make sure you don't hit the ground before you kill horizontal velocity. Even MechJeb cannot do this because it's simply the best way to do it if you can pilot.

Nope. Game over. Erect a memorial plaque and suffer through the loss. And lol parachutes on the mun hahaha

I like how "0 - 10" is an option. Yeah, I'm 0 years old... What of it?

I preordered .14. Have been playing since December of 2011.

Lol. Aka just lol

So contradictory I can't even into.

Yeah I know. Last year around this time, I flew some real time Kerbin Orbit missions in a capsule and kept myself busy by testing out orbital mechanics theory in the game. Things like orbital energy, period, transfer delta-v, etc.

I CANNOT WAIT UNTIL KSP's sun is that amazing looking! Holy crap. Hey Squad, you guys better look at these pictures and take a lesson from what you see. 'Nuff said. No joke, best thread ever.

There's a mediafire mirror of 13.3 floating around the internet somewhere. Squad used it as a distribution mirror back in the old days before us salty people had .14. There's nothing wrong with you downloading mirrors of the pre-paid versions but once you get past .14 (when the game began to cost money), downloading free copies is illegal.

Not exactly sure what you're asking, but if you're just trying to dock, all you have to do is set the docking port target as "target" and either manually line up the two ports or hit (PAR -) on MechJeb's "Smart ASS". (sometimes PAR + does it depending on your port location). Then guide it in with translational thrust.

Easy enough. You want to find the orbital period of the spacecraft and then divide it in half, as you'll be in darkness for half of an orbit. The formula for orbital period is as follows: Pi*2 (squareroot) (A^3/U) Where: Pi = 3.14 A = Semi Major Axis of the orbit. U = Gravitational Parameter of parent body. So pretending you're on Kerbin, we can calculate orbital period. I'll do this as an example for you. It works anywhere, but you have to have the right values. IE: Gravitational parameter is different with each planet. So say we have a satellite in a 92x74km orbbit. To find semi major axis, we have to do another equation. Also easy enough. The diameter of Kerbin is 1200km. Add the periapsis and apoapsis to that and then divide the total sum in half. Semi Major Axis is 683 kilometers. We know Kerbin's gravitational parameter. It's 3530.461 km^3/s^2 (those units won't even be used) So the total equation for orbital period of a 92x74km orbit is this: pi*2 [squareroot] (683^3/3530.461) So we then have our orbital period in seconds. It's 1,887.510248 seconds. But minutes is a much nicer value. Divide that by sixty. Orbital Period of our orbit is 31.46 minutes. Now if we want to know how much time will be spent in darkness, it's actually not 100% accurate for eccentric orbits (as you might be moving faster or slower on the dark side depending on the longitude of your AP/PE) but it will give you a pretty good idea. In that orbit, we'd spend APPROXIMATELY 15.73 minutes in darkness.

Holy crap this is like plugin version of career mode!

The spaceport's search is so horribly polluted that if I type "fairings" I get 280 results from desperate mod makers who want everyone to download their parts even if they have nothing to do with the search terms. For the life of me, I can't find any parts packs with a wide selection of fairings. More specifically, three meter to two meter fairings. However, a wide variety of fairing sizes would be greatly appreciated. Does anyone know where I can find a parts pack like this? If so, can you please supply a link? The spaceport's search is just too broken to stand.

I sincerely hope you are kidding.

Some surface level photography for those of you who want to see how closely KSP has replicated the surface of the Moon. (not too closely, but close enough)

Unnecessary. hq.nasa.gov/alsj Pick a mission. For example, Apollo 11. hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11 Go to image library and select anything there. ALL high resolution scans of uncropped and unedited Apollo photography. For example, here's a photo of Buzz. Nearly a megabyte.

I'll start off with mine:

This is what I'm going to leave EVERYWHERE

Yeah I don't know what to do either. I have been trying to build a space shuttle in KSP but even when I make sure the center of thrust is going directly through the center of mass, it doesn't seem to work.

When Kerbin rises:

0/10. Never seen before. Some people may know me better by my old name, VincentMcConnell on the forums.

One word: No.