Holo

That would be good. Something like Mars Colony Simulator where Kerbals make scientific studies and perform research over time (as opposed to building, doing EVAs etc.) would be most excellent, so you have to choose a trade off between doing missions with your Kerbonauts to explore for minerals and stuff or doing science on the moonbase. EDIT: Also, it could be something like strange moods in dwarf fortress where your kerbals require rock or liquid samples to continue doing their research.

He missed out the update on the 16th! This means we get double content this time! (The above is kind of tongue-in-cheek. I do hope we get some gameplay screenshots though!)

Looking at my table, in order of habitability, are: Kerbin Laythe Gilly the Mun Minmus Duna Ike Dres Moho Vall Tylo Bop Pol Eeloo Eve This doesn't take gravity or radiation into account yet, so take these with a grain of salt. TL;DR: Gilly is good, Eve is terrible, Duna's better than most other things EDIT: New chart. I've added habitability scores (out of ten), the type of the body and whether it has breathable atmosphere.

Yep, Eve is about 25 times less hostile than Venus. Anyway, here's my completed habitability table: Take conclusions from that if you will, I'm too tired of making tables to number crunch this thing right now.

I just checked, and it looks like Gilly is a nice and warm 41.38 C (it says 0 in-game, but that's because the thermometer measures atmospheric temperature. I worked out this value from the luminosity and distance from the Sun). Much more pleasant that the sweltering 150 C summers on Eve.

I have an idea: hybrid rocket/zeppelin craft for Eve ascent. To get your crew home, you zeppelin up to the tenuous upper atmosphere, go up into orbit with a relatively small rocket, and dock with the interplanetary cruiser for your ride home. Also, on Gilly, couldn't you use a spinning centrifuge? Gilly's gravity is so negligible a centrifuge should work without any weird forces from the moon below. EDIT: I've decided to do a quantitative analysis of all the bodies of the solar system. Gathering data from KSP for where the wiki misses it, and then I'll be able to answer the age old question of "Where should Jeb retire to?". The prevailing opinion is Eeloo, but that's just because everyone wants to be as far from the explosions as possible.

Mine was made in August 2012. Saved by 2 months! Only problem is, I only lurked back then

Gilly's delta-v to orbit is hilariously low. So are Minmus', Bop's and Pol's, but less so.

Try the 2016 trace gas orbiter, the 2018 exomars rover and the 2020 curiosity-based rover.

They're on the front page .

There'll be lots of transhumanism, 200 man bases on Mars and the Moon, and a tiny outpost on Callisto as part of the first manned mission to the outer solar system. EDIT: For further detail, the 200 man base on the Moon will be mainly oriented around Helium-3 mining and radio astronomy. The Mars base, on the other hand, will be purely scientific, doing tests such as the long term habitability of mars. The tiny outpost on Callisto is doign many scientific tests whilst it waits for the phase angles.

For 2017, you can have the CHEOPS spacecraft and the american SLS (exploration mission 1 to be exact)

What do all the fun switches do?

Aw man, I'm back to being a curious george