What makes you feel BadS?

[peachoftree]

Personally, whenever I retract or deploy landing gear at the first/last moment, I feel super cool.

[regex]

Putting five tons into orbit on what is essentially an up-sized Minuteman with a Soyuz upper.

[carneyvich]

surviving one of my own landings

[peachoftree]

Regex, what sunflare do you have? It looks amazing!

[Sharpy]

Masterfully executed encounter maneuvers. Launch the fuel truck from Minmus surface *roughly* in the right direction (some 45 degrees inclination, somewhere halfway between prograde and equatorial, gain enough speed to have a minute until apoapsis, then prepare the node to encounter the tanker; no matching inclinations, not reaching orbit, just crossing its path at a nearby point. Execute the maneuver. Plan orbit matching maneuver. Warp to it. Perform it and end up 100 meters from the tanker, with less than 3m/s of relative speed, and directed towards it, for docking. Less than five minutes between launch from the surface and transferring fuel into the tanker, maybe 300km from the launch site.

Edited September 9, 2015 by Sharpy

[regex]

Regex, what sunflare do you have? It looks amazing!

Can't remember, that was from 0.90, I think. Might have been an earlier RVE sunflare, pretty sure it's changed (the new one is really nice, though).

[Scotius]

My ship, cutting a fiery trail of re-entry across the hemisphere. Then flames fade, chutes pop - and my capsule returning from Duna lands in a walking distance of KSC. Just in time for a dinner

[Hagen von Tronje]

F2.

C.

Fly.

Greatly aided by using RPM and cockpits intended to be used this way. Really is a rush, especially when you successfully fly and land such craft!

[mythic_fci]

Personally, whenever I retract or deploy landing gear at the first/last moment, I feel super cool.

I'm an S. Therefore, I make BigS things to make myself seem BadS.

[Yakky]

I landed on Vall yesterday with 0.1 units of fuel remaining. It was a bumpy, skidding kind of landing but nothing broke. Career mode, Hard difficulty settings. While still in orbit debating whether to go for it, Kerbal Engineer had told me I had 43 seconds of fuel remaining vs. 39 needed for a pure suicide burn. And the thrust-to-weight ratio for the lander wasn't all that great. That's the most BadS thing I've attempted in a while.

Edited September 9, 2015 by Yakky

[CaptainApollo]

I agree, I love landing on other planets and moons!

[Pax Kerbana]

Roving up, over, and into the Mun canyon with a rover that does not have any RCS/thrusters.

EVA RCSing out of the canyon and back to the lander, some 13km away and touching down with 0.05 units of mono left.

Landing a very unwieldy base module in the Mun canyon less than 100m away from the marker flag.

[Slam_Jones]

- Getting close enough with my Mun landings that I almost knocked over the drilling/ISRU tower with the giant fuel tank. (Nearly happened this morning)

- Docking two stations together, while neither has RCS or monoprop. (Lots of turning, quick burst of momentum, turn again very quickly, quick burst another direction, quick turn, etc. etc. etc. all while trying not to break any solar panels...)

- Also, landing safely at KSC in 90% of atmo re-entries.

And yes, sans MechJeb.

Edited September 9, 2015 by Slam_Jones

[LordFerret]

Be it from launch or coming back in from space, meeting up with that other ship/station, that last burn for docking - putting me within 1km of the target. Mind you, no MechJeb here.

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I agree, I love landing on other planets and moons!

Yea, this too ^

[Just Jim]

Landing somewhere super hard like the Rock Garden on Pol.... almost felt like opening a bottle of champagne after this one.

Oh, and like the last poster... no mechjeb here either

[strigon]

I once flew a Mk 3 spaceplane into Laythe's atmosphere, dropped off a drop pod, and went back into orbit to dock with the station I put there.

Got a whole base done that way, complete with ISRU.

[peachoftree]

I once flew a Mk 3 spaceplane into Laythe's atmosphere, dropped off a drop pod, and went back into orbit to dock with the station I put there.

Got a whole base done that way, complete with ISRU.

You used FMRS, I assume:wink:

Still awesome nonetheless.

[Tourist]

It pales somewhat in comparison to some of the feats described here, but I love the feeling of bringing a spaceplane in for a landing. Bringing it down into the atmosphere, a keeping the nose up to lose speed, watching the continents and oceans racing by below.... then.... as the mountain range west of the KSC appears in the distance, I pull the plane gently over into into a very wide, fiery bank ... I see the KSC below and... just in time, the fire subsides, I have control again. I line it up with the runway, moments later the wheels touch down for a safe landing.

It may not be a single stage to Laythe, or whatnot, but it still makes me feel like Chuck Yeager.

Edited September 10, 2015 by Tourist

[AbacusWizard]

Outrunning the explosion!

External seating on a spaceplane! (prior to 1.0's aero revamp, of course)

Perfectly docking a shuttlecraft in my flagship's science bay!

[MalfunctionM1Ke]

Back in .24 i had a little plane that could go so fast at 35-40km to have its periapsis rise above the ground.

That was pretty badass

[Bloody_looser]

Outrunning the explosion!

-Klaw madness pic-

What is this? a Kraken invoking device?

[AbacusWizard]

What is this? a Kraken invoking device?

Hah, not intentionally, but it pretty much turned into one. I was trying to capture a giant asteroid for the first time, and assumed the best way to do that would be to attach a bunch of little nodes, each consisting of a klaw and either an engine or a stabilizer wheel or whatever… and I figured that obviously if I had to send up a bunch of little nodes I may as well send them all bundled into one rocket.

I got the bundle to the asteroid, split up the scatterpack, attached one node, tried to attach the next… and it wouldn't attach. I tried a few more times and then the whole thing exploded. Since then I haven't done much with asteroids.

[Bloody_looser]

I got the bundle to the asteroid, split up the scatterpack, attached one node, tried to attach the next… and it wouldn't attach. I tried a few more times and then the whole thing exploded. Since then I haven't done much with asteroids.

I tried the Klaw when it was released. Captured a couple asteroids, landed them at KSC rolled them around and stuff. And then I tried to use this thingie to assemble an LKO station. Well, after grabbing a solar panel array and trying to dock it to the station all my vessels in the scene started to fall from orbit - some into Kerbin and others into Sun. Somehow I managed to keep my save safe (he-he) and lithobroke the Kraken spawn hard. This episode left me traumatized and I never touched the Klaw ever since.

Anyway, to not derail the thread any further:

My latest attempt to get to the Mun in a 30-part vessel left me in a collision course at 1k altitude with no fuel going ~150m/s. So I bailed out Jeb, grabbed science and jetpack-braked. Came to the impact at around 50m/s head first and Jeb bounced. Yeah, I felt kinda BadS.

Edited September 10, 2015 by Bloody_looser

[Goddess Bhavani]

Building and flying this and learning about rotary wing dynamics from forumers with helicopter experience on KSP IRC!

It's close to a craft file release, has articulated everything and optional independent collective for the ultimate in precision hovering!

[Endersmens]

When I fly my favorite super maneuverable plane around KSC and get some crazy close calls. Some by accident, some on purpose. Makes my heart rate jump and I feel awesome afterwords.