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CoL is related to Aerodynamic Forces CoT is related to sheer booster force. CoM is the average spot of where your weight is. A rocket going up can ignore CoL because the fluids around it (in this case air) don't really do much beyond applying a force in the opposite direction (as long as the nose points upwards and the control surfaces are symmetric). CoT is the point which represents from where the net force of all your boosters is applied; if it's in line with the CoM it's the same as directly pushing the whole craft up. If its not in line, it's equivalente to trying to push it slightly to the side; imagine pushing a revolving door from the centre; your hands are the thrust and they are also analogue to the CoT, if you have enough strength the door will move forwards from the frame without rotating, if its symmetrical the air hitting it as you push forwards also doesn't make it rotate because both sides get equally hit by the air. On the other hand if you push it from the side (anywhere not in line with its centre of mass); it will start to rotate, the farther from it the easier it is to make it rotate; you do not want your rocket to start rotating... in most cases. In proper physics the offset from the centre of trust line to the centre of mass results in a Torque; CoL can also produce torque but only if the craft is not symmetrical (symmetry makes torque on both sides cancel each other out).

Or the claw and a relatively flat attachment point. Alternatively rendezvous with it, have the kerbal extract the science, and return home leaving the probe floating on space. Or in the insane case you could push it with another ship or a kerbal but you'd still have no control over it, it'd just be on collision course.

Eurycides for a no-return mission to Moho and in general Circus Launch System because the struts made it look like a circus tent.

Project Caduceus; started while working on a major Moho mission which ended up being a disappointment (map lies...) and snowballed into "why not?". It was a simple asteroid redirect mission to capture a class A asteroid. In reality I was thinking of weighting it with mechjeb to have an idea of asteroid sizes for future calculations and missions; and then just leaving it be and returning to Kerbin with the probe. But after the main Moho mission ended in bile dissapointment after a 16 hour rover drive to the southern pole I decided to send a manned rocket to it and land the damn thing in Kerbin in one piece. To achieve this the rocket was fitted with 8 minirockets with 2 XL parachutes each. The main probe would use the arm to latch and then each pod independently would inject into the asteroid. And then the asteroid would be deorbitted. But then I decided that Strangelov-ing it would be more fun. So a third ship went up and got the rider seats and the previous ship was left as a space station and the two Kerbals rode the asteroid to Kerbin Space Center.

Pollutian, Dresdenian, Eelovian

For my successful attempt at rescuing Jebediah from a large scale mission to Laythe that failed on the first trip (kraken took floating base underwater and threw it to the sky). The Odysseus rescue mission flag: And for a large set of future missions to Moho to study topology and evaluate the Southern Mohole. The flag for project Eurydice: