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It seems to me that Ion engines would only be useful for very long flights - like, outside the solar system, taking years. I'm not sure when they would be useful for traveling even to the most remote planet. Please edumacate me.

Twice now I have shown up at the planet and discovered that I was missing an RCS port on one side. When building it using the symmetry feature I had thought I had them on both sides. Landed once, aborted the second time.

This happened to me recently: First stage so slow that it can't clear the support towers before it drifts into them. 1.04 TWR is apparently too low.

Just finally managed to make it to Eve. Aerobraked into the atmosphere, everything seemed to go well, parachutes semi-deployed, then... apparently they ripped right off the craft. I was using two Mk-2 Radial parachutes. Is this not enough? Do I need an engine to slow down further?

I should have put this as #1. Meant to cut engines, separated them instead. Especially fun when they're at full throttle.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the top 10 reasons your space craft either crashed into the planet or missed its orbital burn and is flying off into deep space. I'll give you three, you come up with the rest. 1. Forgot to deploy solar array - batteries dead. 2. Forgot to include parachutes. 3. Forgot monopropellant.

Does it have a gun that shoots behind it so it can fire on the enemy while fleeing?

I'm working on getting to Duna. I looked up a guide online, and it says I need the Phase Angle (angle between the two planets) and the Ejection Angle. I get that. But then I get these angles and go into the game, and I don't see that there's a way to show these angles, so I just have to guesstimate whether I'm in the right spot or not. This makes it frustrating to spend half an hour trying to get to a planet and end up not having the right intercept. How do I show these angles in-game? The Phase Angle is the critical one. If this one isn't pretty close I think you just don't have a chance to hit your target. Thanks.

I also can't get MechJeb to work. I copied the Parts and Plugins folder into my Kerbal directory in Steam, but I see no evidence of any change. There are no new windows, no new crew options and no new parts. Unfortunately the manual doesn't explain any of this. Edit: Ah, never mind. For some reason the first time I copied the files over, it didn't put anything in the Plugins folder, only the Parts one.

Awesome! I love tiny vehicles. They're a lot easier to get into orbit.

Thanks, I was wondering how to do that.

New from RocketBlam!, for 2014, introducing Rovie the Rover! Trying to land a rover on the Mun with a tight budget? Rovie the Rover is for you. Rovie can be placed on top of any rocket without any other support vehicles, and can reach the surface of the Mun from Mun orbit by itself, with no supporting rockets of any kind. The secret to Rovie’s success is the patented “ThrustBlam†landing system. All thrust required for landing on the moon is inside Rovie! In addition to the four 4-way thrusters, six more unidirectional thrusters are installed on the bottom to provide enough RCS thrust to land without difficulty. The 80 units of onboard RCS fuel are more than enough to land, and even take off again to survey a new place (although probably not enough to get back to orbit). The only thing you need to land on the moon is Rovie himself, and the rocket you use to get you there. The TR-2C Stack Separator is used to detach Rovie from the launch vehicle. It makes Rovie more efficient because he lands with no extra weight to haul around on the moon. Once you land, the ample battery pack will provide enough power to keep you working through those cold Mun nights, and the deployable solar array allows you to recharge quickly and be on your way. When it comes time to phone home, the included Communotron 88-88 can send your science data to far away bases. Rovie can also hold any number of exciting experiments (sold separately). The TR-2C Separator More battery power than a bag full of Energizer bunnies Enviro-friendly solar array so you don't pollute the barren, atmosphere-less rock that is the Mun.