Did you ever abandon someone in space?

[IAbandonedBobInSpace]

I got stuck orbiting the sun, and could not return to kerbin, so I abandoned Bob in space. Hence my username. I still feel bad to this day

Edited January 24, 2022 by IAbandonedBobInSpace
I forgot a question mark

[Randazzo]

Time for a rescue mission!

[MechBFP]

My very first time I got to orbit I ran out of fuel and Jeb got abandoned for awhile but I did, eventually, rescue him.

[AtomicTech]

The very first time I got into orbit (For most people, it's Kerbin, for me, it's Kerbol), 'mind you this is 0.24, I stranded my kerbals in orbit with no provisions or skill to save them. I don't have access to that save file anymore so they float in my nightmares for all eternity.

I guess this is one of the reasons that I'm very kerbalminded.

[BekfastDerp13]

I haven't stranded a Kerbal yet, but if I did I think I would rescue them, or just let them sing inside the tiny pod until the infinite food supply runs out.

[Hyperspace Industries]

My first mun landing, poor Jeb was stranded for (I think) 17 years.

[miklkit]

Planning for my first manned Duna mission now.  Can get there fine, but getting back.................

 

Methinks everyone strands their Kerbals on their first Mun landing.  It took me 2 rescue missions to get them all back.

[Vanamonde]

There's been a crew marooned on Bop since version 0.16. 

[SSTO Crasher]

Now that I got outer planets I might strand someone is very deep space 

[MythicalHeFF]

When I was just starting to do interplanetary missions, it was very common for me to end up stranded in solar orbit and abandon kerbals there. The first (and most notable for me), time this happened was when I was coming back from my first Ike mission. I was coming into Kerbin’s atmosphere at almost 4 km/s, and ended up just barely not getting captured because my periapsis was too high. Upon realizing this, I got Jeb out of the ship and had him push it back with his EVA pack until it ran out of fuel and he became stranded floating in space. After Jeb was stranded, Mungan Kerman went on EVA to get himself back into an orbit, and while this was successful, he was fried on reentry. In the end, the last Kerbal remaining on my craft was Rodfurt, who didn’t do anything and was left to orbit the sun for the rest of my career game.

[Axelord FTW]

EVA fuel replenish upon boarding a craft. You could technically visit all SOIs with a one-part ship.

As for me, I don't strand anyone. If I screw up, I devise a rescue mission. That's also why I prefer not landing Kerbals on Eve. Trying to get the off that planet is too likely to fail somehow.

[StrandedonEarth]

There was one crew that attempted to land at the Munar south polar region. The terrain in that region proved to be rather jagged. While they landed more or less safely, there was nowhere nearby to land a rescue craft. And a myriad pf F9'd attempts to 'fly' the toppled lander out of that cursed canyon all ended tragically.

[Randazzo]

5 hours ago, Vanamonde said:

There's been a crew marooned on Bop since version 0.16. 

You always gave the impression of a banana, but you're really a monster.

[MythicalHeFF]

1 hour ago, Axelord FTW said:

EVA fuel replenish upon boarding a craft. You could technically visit all SOIs with a one-part ship.

You see, the problem is that I hadn’t yet realized that at the time (more than 5 years ago.)

[Axelord FTW]

34 minutes ago, Jack Joseph Kerman said:

You see, the problem is that I hadn’t yet realized that at the time (more than 5 years ago.)

Easily fixed. Just find a time machine on ebay.

[Entropian]

I have abandoned far more kerbals than I care to remember (and rescue).

[pandaman]

In space no, but they have been known to spend a lot of time orbiting waiting for  tranfer windows.  Or 'going round again' if I time the Kerbin capture wrong.

On planets, there is a subtle, and flexible, distinction between 'stranded', 'long term deployment' and 'colonisation'.

[joacobanfield]

Not really abandoned, more like lost to the kraken as I can't get a ship out to 124981 P in a feasible amount of time. Sorry, Spaghetti Kerman.

[Maria Sirona]

On my first ever crewed Mun landing, i crashed Jeb's lander on the Mun so that every part of it was left intact- except for the engine. Never got him back, i deleted the save oon after. I haven't stranded a single kerbal after that.