Airlock

I apologize! Made a mistake, please disregard that. I forgot to reinstall the cfg file.

I share many of my views on human spaceflight with acclaimed visionaries like Clarke, Dyson, and O'Neill. Not only do we need to spread humans out into our solar system, but other Earth-life as well. Life should be allowed to express itself in its full domain, in as many ways possible, free of the singular biosphere of Earth. Here's some stuff to watch:

Nyrath's Orion mod has to be my #1 favorite right now. I'm also a huge fan of William Black's artwork. He has definitely put the most research and dedication into his projects and, as a result, has become one of the best hard sci-fi artists out there. Very glad too see someone referencing his work for a KSP mod. The models/textures look great already too.

They plan to boost them back to the launch site. http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2014/04/rockets-return-home-spacex-pushing-boundaries/ "The ambitious plans for creating an advanced flyback booster-style vehicle were unveiled by SpaceX founder Elon Musk back in September of 2011, featuring first and second stages that would fly back to the launch site under their own power – something no other aerospace company has achieved." There has been some speculation, however, that the center stage may be too far down range to boost back when it cuts out. EDIT: Here's another article. Seems like they've considered an expendable center core. http://aviationweek.com/blog/falcon-9-performance-mid-size-geo “Where I basically see this netting out is Falcon 9 will do satellites up to roughly 3.5 tonnes, with full reusability of the boost stage, and Falcon Heavy will do satellites up to 7 tonnes with full reusability of the all three boost stages,†he said, referring to the three Falcon 9 booster cores that will comprise the Falcon Heavy's first stage. He also said Falcon Heavy could double its payload performance to GTO “if, for example, we went expendable on the center core.â€Â

If space-based infrastructure ever becomes a reality, I can envision an Orion, or something akin to it, being built on the surface of the Moon or Mars. Perhaps through asteroid mining. Now I feel a need to share this... Edit - Here's the wiki about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_pulse_propulsion#Medusa "The Medusa design is a type of nuclear pulse propulsion which has more in common with solar sails than with conventional rockets. It was proposed in the 1990s in another BIS project when it became clear that ICF did not appear to be able to run both the engine and the ship, as previously believed. A Medusa spacecraft would deploy a large sail ahead of it, attached by cables, and then launch nuclear explosives forward to detonate between itself and its sail. The sail would be accelerated by the impulse, and the spacecraft would follow. Medusa performs better than the classical Orion design because its sail intercepts more of the bomb's blast, its shock-absorber stroke is much longer, and all its major structures are in tension and hence can be quite lightweight. It also scales down better. Medusa-type ships would be capable of a specific impulse between 50,000 and 100,000 seconds (500 to 1000 kN·s/kg)."

Apparently it reduces ablation. It was to be used on the Orion's pusher plate as well. Read here: http://www.spacedaily.com/news/nuclearspace-03h.html "Evidence of this obtained from nuclear tests was the foundation for further research into the feasibility of a pusher plate. It was discovered that ablation (erosion) of the surface of a pusher plate could also be reduced by coating it with graphite. Coating the launch pad in similar fashion would minimise ablation of the surface and therefore create very little fallout indeed. Airbursts are relatively clean from a fallout point of view."

There were also plans to coat the entire launch site in graphite so that launches would produce little to no fallout. EMP wouldn't have been as much of an issue as one would assume. Orion warhead sizes were relatively small (in the kiloton range rather than megaton) compared to the bombs needed to create a substantial EMP. Read here for everything you need to know about Orion: http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/enginelist.php#id--Pulse "A more sophisticated objection to using Orion inside an atmosphere is the sci-fi horror of EMP melting all our computers, making our smart phones explode, and otherwise ruining anything using electricity. But that actually is not much of a problem. EMP is not a concern unless the detonation is larger than one megaton or so, Orion propulsion charges are only a few kilotons (one one-thousandth of a megaton). Ben Pearson did an analysis and concluded that Orion charges would only have EMP effects within a radius of 276 kilometers (the International Space Station has an orbital height of about 370 kilometers). So just be sure your launch site is in a remote location, which you probably would have done anyway."

Here's a link to the General Atomics 10 meter Orion study: http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/supplement/GA-5009vIII.pdf There indeed were plans to launch a small nuclear pulse rocket on a Saturn V, either in sections to be assembled in orbit, or to be lofted by a single lifter half-way to orbit. There were also design plans that had 20+ meter Orions being launched by something akin to a NOVA or a Convair Nexus. http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/nexus.htm I wonder if the 130t SLS could do something like this.

The arrays work fine for me. Make sure your action group is set only to start an individual array, while "killing" the feed of any other bomb type.

The third trailer is out. Couldn't find it on Youtube, but here's the link from Paramount's site. http://downloads.paramount.com/kaltura/content/r71v1/entry/data/354/854/0_buycdmn8_0_ygksx8j3_2.mp4 Edit: Here's a Youtube embed - Did I see a Saturn V?

I like the way this shot came out.

Same results here.

Noticed the same here. INSULINt's fix still seems to work though: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/87127-Fixed-Decoupler-for-KSP-x64-on-Windows-v4-%28July-22%29?p=1297778&viewfull=1#post1297778

No crashes here when using the preliminary .24 firespitter with mechjeb. Running 64bit just fine. I have it installed in this format: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Kerbal Space Program\GameData\Firespitter\Plugins\Firespitter.dll"

Took this shot during a Tylo flyby on the way to Vall.

I launched the first of two nuclear pulse rockets. Preparing an expedition to Jool.

Hi there! I've been playing KSP for just over a year now and I've finally decided to get off my butt and start taking part in this awesome forum I'm a bit of a mod junkie, and will probably be hanging around the "awesome pictures" and "what did you do in KSP today?" threads to show off some ship designs. I enjoy writing as well, so maybe I'll start some threads in the Fan Works forum. Glad to be here

Is it unsafe to uninstall DangIt? I removed it from my Gamedata folder earlier and when I opened up my current save I got a flood of null reference exceptions when I accessed the tracking station. I couldn't select any ships in-flight either. No problem with ships launched after uninstalling though, nor through a new save.