Voidryder

So what is Kim up to?

Greetings TopDawg, There are downloads of standard letters for use with loved ones, non-KSP playing friends, teachers, bosses, just about everyone you know or could possibly know explaining that you will no longer be seen nor will you speak of anything but space for now on. We recommend that you send them out periodically. Avoids the police doing those bothersome wellness checks during aerocapture at Jool. Enjoy.

Clearly Airbus is using new 1.0.2 aero - wings on a rocket.

^^ Definitely doable with CMES to Mun. Could even lose a HAB module. Nice find.

Aaaaaaaaagh!!

Thanks ObessedWithKSP, now I can't stop thinking about pink golf balls on blank sheets of paper.

Dear Industrious and Hard Working Chaka Exploration Systems Engineers, We, your most courageous customer at Voidryder's Aerospace have utmost faith in your ablity to correct issues with reentry parachutes. Meanwhile all of our missions will be modelled after the Reality Television Show - Duna One. No need to bother with parachutes at all. Well almost no reason. Retro-boosters will be increased accordingly. Also please be aware that all exterior doors to flight hangers and crew dormitories have been locked from outside for security reason. Please knock loudly. Sincerely, The Grand Designer, Voidryder's Aerospace

I use Papa Joe's Ship Manifest and will test that too. Update: Ship Manifest transfer works.

@Sharpy - I get your complaint and what you're saying. Sometimes you're the windshield and sometimes you're the bug. Life isn't fair. Just think of it like the Mir fire back in 1997. http://www.universetoday.com/100229/fire-how-the-mir-incident-changed-space-station-safety/ Or hum quietly to yourself that god awful and annoying song from Annie, Personally, I go with the Mir fire. Really, really really hate that song.

Don't quite know how I feel about this mod. I mean I play with TACLS and this is pretty cool in that regard. I'm just afraid I'm going to hear this in my head every time I deploy the algae arrays.

Wow! Spielberg out did himself this time. Really looks real. So when's lunch? This damn suit is hot. And let me know when we're "transmitting" from "Mars", ok? Rubes.

Ah, a real tragedy. How hard it must have been for everyone who sweated to bring those birds to life, only to have to leave them earthbound.

Dear Most Illustrious Chaka Monkey Exploration Systems Engineers, We, your most ardent customer, wish to express our unwavering appreciation for your latest upgrade to the paperwork for your outstanding boosters and spacecraft. Our Director of Kerbalnaut Office is busy shanghaiing recruiting more Test Flight Crews as the ones we released from hangers granted leave to earlier have not returned from loving families' arms. Rest assured that we at Voidryder's Aerospace stand ready to resume with full expediency the Glorious Kerbal People's Noble Climb to the Majestic Heavens using the exemplary Chaka Monkey Exploration Systems. Sincerely, The Grand Designer, Voidryder's Aerospace Post Script: It is always the paperwork, isn't it?

What the FancyMouse said. Farther from the Sun (Kebals call their sun the Sun, so don't correct me), less solar radiation (light), less effective solar panels. RTG's are the answer...or really long extension cords. P.S. No shame in playing with mods. It's a single player game. Play in a way that is fun for you. All that matters.

Dear Highly Regarded Chaka Monkey Exploration System Engineers, Your prompt and expedient delivery of updated versions of your remarkable launch vehicles and spacecraft is greatly appreciated by our remaining Test Flight Crews here at Voidryder's Aerospace. Our Director of Kerbalnaut Office has ordered the unlocking of all hangers' exterior doors as a result. Families of Test Flight Crews will be overjoyed to see their loved ones again. Sincerely, The Grand Designer, Voidryder's Aerospace

Hey GregroxMun, I'm well past my thirties and I hear about KSP everyday...wait...never mind.

Dear Superlative Chaka Monkey Exploration Systems Engineers, Most Jubilant Greetings! We, your very appreciative and humbled customer wish to extend our warmest congratulations on your successful launching of the newest and formal version of CMES' most excellent launch vehicles and spacecraft. In celebration we have added another 21 Kerbalnauts to our Flight Testing division. (Survivors will graduate to our Flight Crew Corps. Additional survivors will graduate to Prime Crews.) Sincerely, The Grand Designer, Voidryder's Aerospace

Just to expand a bit on gooddog15's answer, you have to remember that at the time of Gemini, the idea was to get an astronaut on the moon fast. While there were plenty of concepts about reusable spacecraft at the time, the drive was to get there "firstest with the leastest." Weight was the demon to overcome. Design it simple to do exactly what was asked. So spacecraft were designed to shed all used stages when no longer needed. Once a stag is depleted, don't haul it around, kick it loose. Gemini was the same way. Don't bring that weight back to Earth or you have to design more powerful retro's (heavier) and larger parachutes (again heavier). Heavier isn't good, especially for the power of the launch vehicles back in the day. Just like KSP, design light to get the most out of your launch vehicle. Of course, with the Space Shuttle in 1970's and SpaceX with others today the approach is reusable spacecraft. Make 'em last several missions. Times change as do mission profiles. There isn't a Space Sprint anymore. Now it's an Ironman challenge -- multi-roles needing multi-purpose crafts. And gooddog15 is right, it eventually deorbited on it's own, so why waste fuel, etc on it. They weren't going to reuse it again.

Right you are Raidernick. My oops. More careful reading on my part next time. Thanks.

You use to be able to do this way back in the day. I know because I did it, but darn if I can remember how now. I'll take a dive through my archives and see if I can at least find an example. Damn biological HD. It spins a bit slower than it use to. Meanwhile maybe one of the vets out there recall this bit of cfg editing and can help right away. http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/57690-rescaleFactor-and-the-MODEL-node Here's how to do it back in 0.22. No idea if it works now. Maybe a Modder can say.

Nope, not addictive in the least. I've been playing everyday since 0.17.1 in Oct 2012 and I've quit plenty of times - power outages, crashes, threats from bosses. KSP being addictive and consuming every moment of your life, both waking and sleeping is just propaganda being spread by the Anti-KSP League. These are the same people who say we never landed on the moon or that steak-a-la-mode is bad for you. Unfortunately a lot of girlfriends, boyfriends, significant others and spouses secretly or even openly belong to this fanatical group of naysayers. The only hope for these unenlightened souls is to do an intervention. Sit them down in front of a computer, fire up KSP and let them experience the Joy and Bliss we all do. I only suggest you get two computers or you'll never get on again.

I run a i5-4670K 3.40 Ghz and she cranks through KSP and most other games without a problem.

Hmmm, I am sensing sarcasm in the OP.

Dear Brilliantly Innovative Chaka Monkey Exploration Engineers, In sincere response to your request for critical feedback on instructional product card, we, your most staunch and appreciative customers at Voidryder's Aerospace ran the supplied instructional product card through the most vigorous and expert testing. We asked our secretary pool to read card and then fly simulated Duna Return to Orbit missions. All eighteen secretaries successfully completed missions following instructional product card. All eighteen secretaries were immediately promoted to Duna prime flight crews. Previous Duna prime flight crews are now studying typing and shorthand. Sincerely, The Grand Designer, Voidryder's Aerospace

Dear Esteemed Chaka Monkey Exploration Engineers, We, your most steadfast and loyal customers at Voidryder's Aerospace appreciate this most novel idea of "product cards." Our flight crew training instructors also considered "cards" such as these attached to control panels. Price of paper and ink was found to be prohibitive. Is cheaper to replace flight crews. Sincerely, The Grand Designer, Voidryder's Aerospace Post script: Will there be collector editions of product cards?