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today I been watching youtube and went along csauce video called if, and in one part of it he told that NASA wasn't 100% sure that Neil and Buzz will get back to earth so they would be stranded with no hope of returning, so the worst case speech was prepared. Now watch this and think about Kerbals you left behind.

http://youtu.be/QBK3QpQVnaw?t=9m59s

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today I been watching youtube and went along csauce video called if, and in one part of it he told that NASA wasn't 100% sure that Neil and Buzz will get back to earth so they would be stranded with no hope of returning, so the worst case speech was prepared. Now watch this and think about Kerbals you left behind.

http://youtu.be/QBK3QpQVnaw?t=9m59s

I never leave a Kerbal behind, I always find some way for them to end their lives with dignity (usually by crashing into something).

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If a Kerbal is going on a one way trip, he will know it from the start. Otherwise, I definitely will retrieve them.

Fortunately, so far, this has only been an something I've had to do on the Mun and Minmus....

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You wont be able to rescue all Kerbals one day, one day Kerbals will need life support :confused:

As you can see in my ribbons, I have lost some Kerbals, RIP Kermans.

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The first Kerbal I had to leave behind; before I learned quicksave/load there was an error during a SOI change that caused a suborbital trajectory into Kerbol. Without enough dV to change that, Jenlorf sat back and waited for the inevitable. Every kerbal remembers him kindly, as he is now part of the fuel that washes them in comfort, bathes their food in photons, and energizes their solar panels. They look up from the launch pad in the mornings to glance at his new home, knowing that he sustains them from afar, and begs them to push farther into the final frontier.

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I currently have 2 Kerbals upside-down in a canned rover on the Mun. Due to recent budget cuts however, manned missions have been scrapped. There are scientists working on some sort of chair mechanism attached to a that would allow for a less expensive rescue attempt, but when that technology will be available is anyone's guess.

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All my kerbals have either died, landed safely, or were stranded before EVA and persistence. So I'm not feeling all that bad right now though I would love to mount a rescue mission sometime.

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Just how are we supposed to rescue kerbals that just happened to land on places like Eve? I hear it's harder to launch from Eve than Kerbin, not to mention getting a fully capable launch vehicle to the surface of Eve.

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Just how are we supposed to rescue kerbals that just happened to land on places like Eve? I hear it's harder to launch from Eve than Kerbin, not to mention getting a fully capable launch vehicle to the surface of Eve.
It is perfectly possible. Scott Manley did it in a single launch from Kerbin before docking was implemented.
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I never left Kerbals behind, I just end mission and order Mr. Scotty to beam them back :cool:.

EDIT_1: Anyway, it's a good way to clear roleplayer conscience (if you had one).

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I watched that video, terrible to say the least, it was to dangerous and i cannot believe that Nasa would do such a thing...

To be fair, I don't think anyone in the space program was fooling themselves that it wasn't dangerous, especially not after Apollo One.

They were as sure as they could be that it would work, but it had never been done before, and you can never be 100% sure about anything.

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To be fair, I don't think anyone in the space program was fooling themselves that it wasn't dangerous, especially not after Apollo One.

They were as sure as they could be that it would work, but it had never been done before, and you can never be 100% sure about anything.

Slightly off-topic: Why did NASA make the FIRST FLIGHT IN THE PROGRAM manned?

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