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Hey Slashy, you can upload your spreadsheet to Google Docs and it will be online! You can share it with others too.

Hi guys, original poster here. After this topic got debated in runet, cosmonauts put back Gagarin and Korolev photos. Flags reflect countries of astronauts currently aboard the ISS. By the way, Korolev was Ukrainian, and some suspected that removal of his photo was somehow connected to current state of relations between Russia and Ukraine (I call it madness). Good to see that astronauts don't play those games. 2015

2013 2014 2014 There's also video from 2012: They removed photos of Gagarin and Korolev. I'm Russian (almost) myself, and it's such a shame.

While looking at ÃŽâ€v maps, I don't quite understand why to land on the Mun I ought to first orbit it. And the same for leaving Kerbin -- is it really better to first orbit it, and then Hohmann transfer to Mun? That would make sense if I were going to leave an orbiting station, land on a detachable module. But if I'm going to just land, isn't it better to shoot straight to the Mun, and then decelerate to land? And a related question: how is better (in terms of ÃŽâ€v) to inject into Mun orbit -- from behind it (counter-clockwise, same direction as the Mun itself around Kerbin), or from the front (clockwise)? Of course, all that is valid for other bodies, Kerbin and Mun are just examples.

I'm curious of a most effective way to launch ships that circle Kerbol in other direction all planets do. Is it possible to use close flyby (aka slingshot) to actually slow down, than speed up? Just imaging that in head tells me "no", as any gravitational body would try to "carry" me with them. But I'm not sure...

Well, actually managed to get into without any extra ladders. There is a hatch on one side of the pod. I like this game, it's challenging!

Haha, I'm just doing Career, and ladder is way ahead in Research. I thought it wasn't needed. So I eventually got to the poor kerbal, switched to it and knocked to the empty pod. Noone home, lol

And activate it while being in water (using stage sequence aka Space button). Just landing with it in water isn't enough.