LikeASpaceDog

The Space Launch System is a big red herring in terms of the direction space travel should be going. The age of Apollo, where people launched giant expensive super-rockets in order to prove their nations' technical superiority, and, indeed, the feasibility of manned space travel, is over. It would be folly to bring this back, when we are on the verge of the next step into space - a practical and sustainable network of transportation of humans around the solar system. It is not enough to just "visit" an asteroid, or a Lagrangian point, these places are useful for real reasons, more than just propaganda. While not definite, the Falcon Heavy certainly COULD enable the long-term usage of these resources, thru inexpensive and frequent launches, while the SLS seems geared toward just "getting footprints on something".

Has no one done 650 I-beam fairings yet? They are wide, pretty light, work on 1m and 2m, and can even be stacked!

The Pegasus rocket might be the most Kerbal thing ever built - all solid fuel, all three stages! This rendition can make it to orbit pretty easily without air launch.

Here's a very compact and capable space taxi, for moving Kerbals between spacecraft, or roving on planets, or whatever

Hey thanks! I have actually been playing the game for a few months, but I just discovered the (surprisingly active!) forum.

A functional mini Soyuz rocket (and spacecraft)