SaturnVee

That helped a lot, thanks man!

If an orbit is just a substantial horizontal velocity, and it is still technically a falling object, shouldn't it be susceptible to downwards gravitational acceleration and in turn need to increase its horizontal velocity to maintain a stable orbit? Or is there a force stopping the given object from falling at an increased rate?

Landing on Eeloo and returning

Here's mine, it was around 5km up, got real close some parts around the north. Quite fun to watch and observe the surface, things such as arches look cool.

Using Kerbal Engineer, when you are designing your ships in the VAB make them so that the delta-v they possess is the amount required for the mission at hand, so that you don't end up with a bunch of leftover fuel at the end worth a thousand or two surplus delta-v. You can find out how much delta-v it takes to get to x and y and then return online.

Use seperatrons, put them facing downwards on the outside of your radial stage, and have them fire on the stage as your decouplers.

I was going to do a manned flyby of Jool, I didn't expect to have an atmosphere as I assumed the body itself would be the atmosphere. They came in too low and succumbed to the kraken.

Cool idea with the moon thing, would take a bit of math to predict that. Thanks everyone!

http://climatenamechange.org/#/petition?c=upworthy Sign this petition and names for hurricanes could actually be relevant . On side note, what evidence is there that climate change isn't caused by human industrialisation?

This question also applies to real life, but is it possible to be close enough to a planet that it keeps you in an orbit upon entering its SOI without having to retroburn or aerobrake? Or will an intercept orbit always be parabolic or hyperbolic?

I recently started using quick-saving to test altitudes for aerobraking in certain atmospheres. I also use it sometimes when landing things at my Mun base, I'm a bit of a perfectionist with the positioning of units, and it's boring as hell after making hundreds of trips to the Mun. I don't think it's cheating no matter how much you use it, but there is a special feeling you get after completing a mission in one smooth go as opposed to a quick-save or two.

Name: SaturnVee World Preference: Anywhere but Moho and Dres, I have long term feuds with those two. Character Name: Kerman Kerman

I would love to see this thing flying from cockpit view.

Welcome to Mun One, here is a group picture from Expedition 1. See if you can spot Jebediah. Each Kerbal gets their own habitation module, the others are out of this shot.

I was always interested in science, space to be specific. I was little when the earliest expeditions to the ISS took place, as well as the Mars rovers like Spirit and Opportunity. I was too young to appreciate them fully and I took them for granted, by the time Curiosity came by I was reading NGT's books, in fact I remember seeing the confirmed landing on the news while I was reading. After that I started researching about human exploration of space, and something about the space race touched me. Beyond all the scientific applications of space travel, there's something much more poetic to me about leaving our planet. Also rockets are badass, I want to work in rocket related job, I don't care what.

Why did we visit the Americas? The Arctic? The Moon? Exploration. It's in human nature to strive to establish our presence, and give ourselves meaning. There are many points to go to Mars aside from this, from a technological perspective, executing such an excursion would spark many advances. For example, these 15. Such a feat would also inspire the generation in the same way the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs did. I guarantee most of the scientists at NASA running all their current missions were inspired to do so by Apollo.

"Why? Because we can."

No problem , it appeared there because I posted it quite early, but moderators only approved my message quite a bit later.

Just about got 35:30 No mods, went for an incredibly early gravity turn west and held a 70k orbit until I planned a descent onto KSC. Perfect landing And the ship that did it

Ah, that makes more sense. Still going to be a pretty impressive feat.

I'm not really sure about these tests. I mean sure, it's great that they can do it with such precision, but coming down at speeds from an orbital velocity will take a lot more delta-v to bring it to such a smooth and accurate landing, right? Not including how much heavier a ship might be on its way down than this one.

A picture I took by chance on a Mun landing.