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Because of the distance that you are covering in inter-planetary travel, whatever direction the planet you are trying orbit is moving is the direction you want your ship to go. If you go for a counter orbit around that planet, you will end up using more fuel. I got into an intercept trajectory with Jool but I ended up on the side of Jool that was facing me so I wasted alot of fuel trying to slow down to stay in it's SOI, I got into orbit moving the opposite direction of Jool's moons so it set up a nice route for me to moon hop but I had to say bye to that ship cause it wasn't coming home.

Just saw one today right as I finished constructing my new Kerbin Space Station. It was the first I saw and it was cool.

I just managed to land my mobile command base on Minmus and can confirm that it doesn't entirely solve the issue but that using soft controls (caps lock) does help with control. Also two other things worth note (I'm not sure if anyone mentioned this yet) but if you has a rover with a pod or probe module, you can right click it and disable your reaction wheels by "toggling torque." That way, the rover won't try to pitch.

Murphy's law is such a jerk. That has to be the most hilarious story I've ever read.

I'm currently trying to re-land a mobile command base on minmus cause I lost the first one due to low grav tumbleweeding. I haven't tried this yet so if anyone what has any idea if this would work, please let me know. Perhaps it would help if you use soft controls. (Caps-lock) It eases into turns in space so maybe it will do the same for rovers? I'm going to try tomorrow once I get back to minmus.

That is remarkable. I have never had a mission go do smoothly. Seeing catastrophic failure is a hidden appeal to KSP but it's those successes that keep me going. But sometimes when you see a solid rocket booster punch your ship, you can't help but laugh. I know your feel.

I tried landing a tall observation tower on Minmus and everything was going well. I was waiting to get into position to begin my descent but I forgot to extend my solar panels, leaving my tower in a crash course with a Minmus mountain.

My most proud moment is either successfully retrieving my 3 Kerbals from the Mun after 5 failed attempts and safely landing them in middle of Kerbin's ocean, a few hours away from the big crater or making a VERY fuel efficient space station that needs 4 radial staging rockets to orbit it. Left two of those docked together at 3 MIL KM orbit around Kerbin with much fuel to spare.

I had just bought KSP, I spent hours designing a rocket to get my first probe to orbit Kerbin, realized I completely botched up the staging, spent minutes re-organizing the staging, took off and everything went great! ....Until I decoupled the rocket boosters a little too soon... The "disassembling" of my rocket was quite fascinating to watch I might add. If I can figure out how to share the vid, I'll post it. Edit: So apparently my computer doesn't like taking screenshots of videos. What happened was I decoupled the solid rocket boosters while they still had some fuel and one of them happened to punch right into the middle of my rocket. Fun times!