macollo that launcher is about 5 times bigger than anything i've ever built... How is the staging for the top part? i can see a couple sections in there but can't quite tell if it's more than 1 lander. Today was my first successful mining mission. It's also the heaviest thing i've tried to land on another planet, so after crashing and quickloading about 7-8 times, it felt sooooo good touching down with this thing! Any thoughts on what you can see of my first miner design? All i wanted it to do was be able to land, refuel, and come home. My first experiment with Kethane went pretty well i think =) (I guess my real first experiment never made it into kerbin orbit... but let's not count that one xD). Next I think i'm gonna make a mining "base" with some extra shuttle stage on it to bring fuel tanks into low orbit and back to refill.