Glamorous Glennis

Will do!

I watched a lot of videos (Scott Manley and Wernher von Braun (I think?)) and my friend basically showed me how to do an orbit. There's going to be a lot more unsuccessful attempts at my Mun landing.

When you try to retro burn to deorbit yourself and realize that you've actually been pointed at the prograde marker the whole time. http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/91033-Houston-we-have-a-problem

It worked! (The second time, at least. As for the first time- I wasn't monitoring Jeb's EVA fuel and he ran out and floated off into space. ) Here's some pictures: Jeb getting out and pushing. Not a very pleasurable experience, I bet. The final result of Jeb's efforts. Originally, I figured one good pack-full of EVA fuel would do it but it only got me to 50km. So I let him re-enter the atmosphere (albeit briefly) and then burned again when I reached apoapsis, which is where the picture above is from. It may be hard to see, but the periapsis is only 25km! Jeb re-entering the thicker portion of the atmosphere. Once I saw those flames, I knew he was going to stay in the atmosphere this time. Opened the parachute around 2km up. It fully extended exactly 500m above the waves. Jeb taking a quick dip to relax. He's had a rough, yet exciting day. Of course, he also had to take a surface sample home for the lab boys. 54.2 Science earned from this adventure alone, 106 total. I'm rich! Thanks for the idea, guys. I'm glad to have Jeb home and ready to head for my next target- the Mun!​

Thanks! This was something like my third attempt, though. When I completed the first burn ("injection burn?") the orbit was something like 95x60km. I knew that wouldn't work, at the very least. I guess I'll try to get Jeb out there and push, will post some pictures if I can manage to deorbit him.

Hello! I recently bought KSP at the advice of a friend but hadn't gotten around to actually installing and playing it until yesterday. My newest attempt at an orbital rocket worked, if you discount using most of the fuel for re-entry for the injection burn, and managed to put Jebediah into a stable 95x90km orbit. With the little fuel I had left (just 5 units!), I attempted my retro burn. When I moved the crosshair off of the retrograde marker on the navball I soon realized the crosshair was on the prograde marker, not the retrograde marker! Having used all 5 units of fuel up and still in a stable orbit (only this time 255x90km), I resigned from KSP for a moment to register an account here on the forums. I figured the more experienced players here might have a solution.