Things you can do in KSP that no real space program would be stupid enough to try . .

[Spatzimaus]

A manned Grand Tour. No space agency would ever consider doing something this dumb, no matter how many fuel stations they'd placed around the system.

Honorable mention: a mission aiming at our moon, but which can't get the angle right for a transfer orbit, so the astronaut decides "meh, I'm going to Mars instead". (Aimed for Minmus, but Mun kept getting in the way, so I decided to go for Ike instead, then screwed up THAT orbit and ended up landing on Duna and barely returning.)

[McKerbin]

Taken from the flight recorder of last night's mission:

Bill: "Well, after de-orbiting Explorer 1, I was able to transfer the rest of the fuel to our own tanks."

"So, we have plenty of fuel for our de-orbit burn"

Bob: "Jeb, why are you burning for Minmus?"

Jeb: "Taking the scenic route down."

Bill: "Via Minmus?!?"

Jeb: "You just said we got the fuel."

Bob: "Via Minmus?!?"

Jeb: "With a return slingshot around Mun too. At a 7km periapsis."

Irony: They're now stuck in an eccentric orbit around Kerbal without enough fuel to return to Low Kerbin Orbit. I'm going to try to aero-braking straight into the return tonight.

With Deadly Re-entry mod.

[magnemoe]

An manned grand tour in an ship who can mine fuel makes a bit sense actually if you don't have to wait forever for an Jool to Eeloo transfer.

An grand tour without refueling does not.

Neither does this for interplanetary trips:

However the go to Duna instead of Minmus wins,

[Caesar15]

You know um...one way trips with manned ships.

[TheAndrewTaco]

Extra-planetary submarines and airships. *cough*Scott Manley*cough*

[FlamedSteak]

"We have taken some early steps into investigating the mission requirements to rescue the kerbanauts stranded on Duna. However that seemed kind of boring so instead we built this giant rocket that we're going to fire directly into the sun.....cool huh?"

"What about the stranded kerbanauts?"

"I'm sure they'll be fine. Now if you look closely, we've put like 20 engines on this new rocket. It's going to be so awesome when it launches."

"Are you sure this is the best method of utilising government funding?"

"Your mother is the best method of utilising government funding!"

"Ex...excuse me?"

"This interview is over!"

[jie321]

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Edited December 13, 2016 by jie321

[doggie015]

"Let's see what happens when I replace this engine with that engine..."

[Lazro]

"We need a target for these new missiles!"

"How about the VAB?"

"Perfect, Jebediah!"

[Fox967]

'Well, we've run out of fuel.... better get out and push!'

[Danish_Savage]

Lauch windows? WHO THE FRAK CARES ABOUT LAUNCH WINDOWS!!! Just fire it off allready!

[rakutenshi]

It's so inherently unstable that you have to ignite the engines the moment physics activates or else gravity alone will rip it to pieces- and it's still considered a "pretty good design"

[Rage097]

"They're stuck on Eve."

"No they're not."

"..."

"They set up a permanent base, that was totally the mission goal"

"I thought..."

"You think too much."

"...Yes, sir..."

Meanwhile on Eve

"Uhhh...what do you mean we're staying?"

Edited September 25, 2013 by Rage097
Forgot quotation mark. OCD

[Dooz]

Aiming for laythe from kerbin yes i got a encounter before from that and hitting laythes atmo going 8k per second

[mrrpamplemousse]

Landing a manned ship on the surface of the sun to study "sunburn"...

[aceassasin]

What is a phase angle? Just point burn and hope you make it

[mrrpamplemousse]

Use ponies as mascot / flag!

actualy, that's a not-so-bad idea, like rainbow dash of a fighter, they will be 20% cooler

Edited September 28, 2013 by mrrpamplemousse

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We lost contact with the sun Lander. We will e lunching a rescue missions tell we find out the ware about of bill and bob on the sun.

[ReptilianGameplays]

"Hey! How 'bout we skydive on Jool?!" - A Kerman's last words.

[borisperrons]

Returning from Eloo.

"Ehi, we don't have enough dV to slow down before re-entry."

"Well, just hit the atmosphere. 15+ Gs re-entry is piece of cake."

[duncrob99]

KSP DESIGNER: I wonder what would happen if I strapped 6 SRBs on top of each other.

OTHER SPACE PROGRAM DESIGNER: It overheats. End of story.

KSP DESIGNER: Hey, a count-down timer! Yay! I'll have one of these on all my successive rockets!

[11JRidding]

Bob: "Think she'll fly?" (A plane)

Jeb: "Who cares if it doesn't? Atleast we'll know for next time"

[theattackcorgi]

Who needs parachutes?!?!

[mrrpamplemousse]

Stages are overated

[theattackcorgi]

Ion thrusters will get us there right?