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The moon. If I could stomach the ride out there. Not sure I'd do so well packed in a tin can for however long it takes to get out there. I'm a little claustrophobic, but all I need is to move around. For instance I cant be strapped into a seat for an 8 hour car ride. That's when it gets bad. I gotta get up and move around every few hours. The fact that I'm 6' 2" doesn't help either. But hey as long as I can unbuckle, float around and play some KSP on my way to the moon id be good to go. How do you guys think you'd cope with the physical and mental requirements?

Uhm..u mean the 3rd world war?

Well how would you do it? I believe the craft will work. You need 2,800 Dv according to the map to get to a 65km orbit. Id like to think the SRB's will make up for the 300 im short on. But regardless if this design works or not is there a way to do it...better? A more efficient design with less parts and that's even smaller if possible.

Im building a mission out to Jool to perform various tasks, but the main one is to land three kerbals on Laythe, drive around the island and return them home. That last one I find is what makes this very hard lol. Im doing this Apollo style with a CM orbiter and I need this LM to be able to return to the CM where it will then be ditched.. sadly. ( Once that gets built ) So im just building and testing ideas for a good ascent craft. I dont do orbital construction. So to get this behemoth into orbit once its done I will need a very large rocket. My goal is to make each stage as small and compact as possible to ease this process. Heres what ive been playing with. Im using various mods. KW, Nova ( the radial SRB's and tiny decouplers ) Home ( small radial ascent engines ) B9 for their flat mono tanks. The parachutes decouple off the top after landing. On take off the legs detach and the twelve SRB's fire getting the craft up to about 3,500m before they decouple and the radial engines fire. At this point the craft possesses 2,500 Dv and gets up to about 30,000m. Im testing on this on Kerbin so I figure if it can be done on Kerbin it can be done on Laythe. What im looking for is input on the ascent stage. Is there a way I can do this more efficiently and retain a compact design? And one that's less crashy maybe.. for some reason my game likes to crash on the surface of Kerbin and I suspect the SRB's to be the culprit. So they may have to go. That may mean back to the drawling board which brings me here. I need to get to a circular 65km orbit and have enough fuel to put around for a rendezvous. Heres another pic of the descent stage. Subject to change, but it works for now.

I'm guessing he was using FAR? I was scratching my head on why he kept the farings on so late. Either way they make for a cool effect. Needless to say watching that gave me a lot of ideas.

Even with mods the S5 is hard to make. Well..not make, but perform. Rockets damn near wobble to death. Kinda takes the fun out of it..

What version was this performed with? Lot of mods I don't recognise

This thread is making me rethink the deign of my Laythe return craft. Thing needs to get to a circular 65km orbit and still have enough fuel to dock with the CM.

Ive never used it and still don't understand how it differs from the regular controls.

Idk Flamedsteak this ones got my vote.

Go outside an hour after sundown or before sunrise when the stars come out. You should see atleast one every 10 minutes. One a minute if you have dark skies. Sometimes more.

Well that is really cool I did not know that was possible. Had to be so small though Idk how anyone could've seen it. Iridium flares are in LEO so there fairly close. And how big was the CM? Size of a mini van? Im not douting what your saying just trying to understand how its possible. Was it a full moon that night? I can see it heppening on the darkside, but not washed out in the glare of the moons dayside.

Uhm...I'm not even sure that's possible with todays telescopes let alone one from the late sixties. You sure about that? I have an 11 inch CPC and the smallest thing I can resolve on the moon is the size of a football stadium.

I am afraid for future generations. Kids these days idolize pop stars and wanna grow to be the next bieber instead of the next Carl Segan. As off topic as this may sound...COSMOS is being remade in 2014 with Niel DeGrasse Tyson hosting it. Seth McFarlene ( family guy ) is funding it and airing it on Fox primetime. The goal is for EVERYONE to see it. To create new and proper idols for the generation to come. The beginning of the trailer NDT says "It's time for us to get back into it" The man couldnt be more right. As for Apollo. I truly envy that generation. The generation that looked up instead of down. I'm 22 and my generation is lucky in its own way. By time I'm on my deathbed the human race will be be on its way to true greatness or it will be hell on Earth as our society slowly consumes itself. Unfortunately the path we currently tread is leading to another dark age.

That's really cool I was just looking at the actual Apollo version of this not to long ago. Shame he didn't have a seperate lander/CM module. I did an Apollo remake down to the T and it was one of the funnest things I've done in the game.

SP > MP. Multiplayer games draw in bad crowds.

Said it once ill say it again there's some perfect music on the Mass Effect one soundtrack

The statistic that was posted earlier stated Americans spend more money on potato chips in one year then it cost to build curiosity. Might wanna step down from that high horse your on bud.

Somethings up. Never had problems until .21 http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/43677-Game-crashes-to-desktop-when-landing

I've tried a sky crane once, but have you guys actually tried dropping the rover down via a KAS winch? I tried, but It was impossibly unstable once the winch was lowered.

You know what bums me out? This rover is on another world. A man made object is traversing an alien planet making day to day discoveries. So I'm reading the news paper yesterday "Gypsy moths are bad this year" ..well THATS ****ing interesting ill tell ya.. Why is there not a daily article in the news papers about curiosity? Space in general. Little day to day stories on what was discovered. I don't care if curiosity sniffed an alien fart I wanna hear about that! You say its the aniversary? Well why isn't this on the news? This is easily the most radical thing mankind can perform on this world and most people just think of it as "Meh" There needs to be daily coverage on this stuff. I remember watching the landing. I loved it I felt like I was there at JPL with everyone. And I was just as nervous. I loved it so much that I actually got up and clapped once they got heartbeats from the rover. A truly awesome night. Sad to say though I haven't been following Curiosity as much as I should've been. Every picture that comes out takes my breathe away. Even the crappy black and white ones covered in dust ( alien dust ) from the landing

What does butter have to do with anything? It's like somehow you knew I was eating pancakes as I read that. I lol'ed.

Some good stuff there. Idk what id take for squad to recognise it, but best of luck to ya. As for music that fits the game I downloaded the mass effect one soundtrack that I play in the background. Fits perfectly. These songs are my favorite. Highly recommended New Worlds Noveria http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wWW-hJbzhSU

We need to find water on mars itself. Just like we drill for oil here wed do the same on Mars, but with water. Once you drill and find water you build the hab module over it. As for the radiation. Well...fill the walls with feces. Lmao as nasty as that sounds its very practical.

Wouldnt the Tylo intercept cost to much Dv as opposed to just letting atmosphere do it? Also.. would it be possible to just aerobrake right through Laythe's atmosphere? And then what would it take for a craft to jump from the orbit of Laythe to Vall?