Sarik Vaster

An obstruction was my first though, but the hatch was clear. I did not know this, and that would definitely make all the difference and is exactly what I needed, thank you. I also did not know about this. This will be useful for a lot of things. Thank you all for the help.

I'm having trouble doing EVA's in orbit around Kerbin. I get into a circular orbit 300,000m above the planet and everything is looking good. Then I click to have Jeb do and EVA and he just flies away from the capsule and I have to redo the launch. I'm not sure whats going on. I've done EVA's before without trouble but for some reason the last 5 times I've had this problem. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks guys. All your advice was very helpful.

Ok here's some pictures of the rocket. In the first the green lines are where the stages separate. The red line is the only point of contact I can see when the sections start to flail. the second picture is the other 5 radial copies removed.

I am not using struts. I'm playing in career mode and haven't unlocked them yet. I attacked the 6 tanks directly to the core tank by clicking on the outside of the core tank. I figured that maybe the I needed to use radial decouplers so I put one at the top tank of the stage and the bottom tank of the stage. Doing that I could only get the radial stacks of tanks to attach to one of the couplers not both. I was using the angular snap so I know they were lined up.

I'm having an issue with my rocket breaking apart. I have the top two stages as inline tanks and engines, but my last two stages used for the brunt force of early launch are 6 tanks and engines radially around the core tank. I have only in line decouplers, no radial ones. I noticed that at some times during a launch, if conditions are right, the engines start to flail around and it gets worse as time goes on until it causes the rocket to brake apart. it would appear that the first tank 3rd stage is where the radial attachment is and nowhere else along the whole length of the 3rd and 4th stages. Is there a way to tighten this down? Some component I haven't unlocked yet or a command in the construction interface I'm not aware of? If you need any more information or screenshot so the rocket or the problem occurring, I can capture those for you. Thank you for your assistance, Sarik