shadowpho

Thank you for working hard on this! I picked KSP again when 0.23.5 hit, and shortly after used mechjeb. I then introduced the game to several of my friends [specifically with mechjeb]. This would not be possible without your hard work on this -- mechjeb makes the game playable for me and many more. For example, instead of telling people to "drag this maneuver until you hit Duna" we can do "match plane, transfer to planet, fine-tune". It's just like magic [as opposed to with delta-v, which is actual magic]!

Thank you guys! Lots of fantastic advice here, I am playing with all of that . I made 2 big designs off your help, and I got 1 to minmus, and 1 to moon! w00t!

This is complete rocket: Stage 9:

I made a rocket to go to the moon [AND BACK!]. Here's my calculation: Stage 0 - Parachute for earth + RCS for use in space. Stage 1 - decoupler for cockpit Stage 2 - Gear Down for moon landing. Also contains wings for stabiliziation Stage 3 - Motor to slow down for moon entry. Small tank. Stage 4 - 3 nuclear engines for space prowls. Stage 5 - 3 liquid engines, 6 medium tanks for them. Stage 6 - 6 small boosters to get to moon. Stage 7 - 3 medium liquid engines, 12 tanks to get out of earth. Stage 8 - 6 large boosters. Stage 9 - 3 huge liquid engines. [only runs at 80% speed top] Stage 10 - 12 large boosters. Now, most of the stages work PERFECTLY. However, at stage 8 I can't control it :/. Stage 10 - gets me to 2 km, 134 m/s Stage 9 - gets me to 16km, 330 m/s Stage 8 - starts looping and looping :/. Stage 7- Goes in weird directions.

Oh wow, I knew I should've done the tutorial! Thank you :-). Here are screenshots of "early explosion boosters" Startup Right before explosions SOLID BOOSTERS AWAY!!!

Thank you guys! It feels great to get a lot of advice . My rocket is not stable per say. On solid boosters it leans just a tiny bit, and bottom engines overheat [and falloff with no damage]. I am reorganizing the stages right now. Here is how it works: 1) ALL solid boosters FIRE. This makes the rocket fly kinda slow, but eh. 2) The outer three liquid boosters fire at FULL POWER. Boosters fall off. 3) Outer three liquid fire boosters fall off, the middle one fires. At half tank we are in orbit 4) We have a very small tank in the small rocket . Not enough to get to moon, but I am looking into tutorials. I am really liking this game! I wish it got into beta faster :-). Any advice on making the rocket more responsive? I put thruster blocks, but they never fires!

I just-just got my first sucesfull flight! However, I don't know how to get to moon, any advice? It seems that my ship keeps running out of power barely after getting orbit. I can post my .craft file if needed! Here's my orbit and my spaceship :-).