purpleivan

This sounds like a lot of my early interplanetary missions. I'd get to my destination with (usually) enough fuel for a landing and return to orbit, but then not have enough for the trip home. I think I spent half my time in my first two or three months flying refueling ships around the system, topping up stranded explorers. Does your lander on Duna have a docking port, or failing that does your game (if its career) have access to the Clamp-o-Tron, which you could use to refuel?

Anything with wings... well, wings that are there to act as wings and not as some kind of general guide as to where I want to go (i.e. slapped on the side of a rocket). I've flown a total of two spaceplanes to orbit. The first overshot the KSC runway on its return by some margin, so I was forced to land at the alternate on the runway island. Almost came to a stop by the end of the runway though... but not quite. The second made it back to the KSC runway, but not in one piece. Yep, anything I build with that fancy shmancy wing technology is pretty much doomed to some kind of failure.

A few pics from the early days of my Career Evolution Contract Pack game. 1st rendezvous A strange craft (some might call it an abomination) sent over to the mountains West of the KSC to pick up some much needed science. Jeb hitching a ride on a rover that was sent to the 1st Mun base, after he'd checked out sites of scientific interest. Jeb departing the Mun base leaving one lonely scientist to carry on the important work. Unfortunately the mission planners didn't realise that a science lab requires a command module to function, so some thumb twiddling for this scientist until a new base is sent up. Welcome back Jeb.

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Looks like Jeb's about to get pulled into spaghetti by the great pea soup vortex.

I've re-flown the mission, returning science from the surface and I can confirm that you're right about the issue being the return of science from space around mun (incorrect) instead of from the surface (correct) being the issue. Cheers.

Weird... this is actually the second time I've attempted to complete the contract. The first time I made the assumption with it being a "sample return" that it was actually science from the surface that was needed to be returned to Kerbin to complete the contract, which I did, but the contract failed to complete.... so I sent the vehicle shown in the pics. I guess the first time round I made an error somewhere and failed to complete the contract for a different reason. I'll have another crack at it, this time returning science taken from the Mun surface. Thanks for the help with this.

I brought back just the probe core on a chute (as in what made it back to the surface of Kerbin). The probe core contained the science (temp reading) from the space around Mun as shown in the third image.

Posted this in the Beta thread yesterday before I realising it should have gone here. I recently started playing a career game using this mod and I have a problem with a contract to return science from the Mun to Kerbin. Here are a couple of screenshots to help explain the issue. In the first one taken while my vehicle is on the surface, I have a green tick against "Situation Landed". However when I lift off to return the science to Kerbin (the second image) the green tick is removed. My question is does the "Situation Landed" tick box get ticked against once I am landed back on Kerbin... feeling like this is a stupid question, but I thought I'd check before heading back to Kerbin. I have an update... I decided to return the sample vehicle to Kerbin and the result was that the contract was not completed. I'm now at a loss as to what is required to satisfy this contract, so any help would be appreciated.

For the first couple of year playing the game I did this. In my case my protractor was an image I put together of a circle with segment lines from its center to edge every 10 degrees. I 'd place the print of it on the map view, center it on the planet I was orbiting, then place a manoeuvre node at the desired angle. Fortunately the paper was thin enough that I could see the orbit curve and some other details through it. Now though I use the angle display in the Transfer Window Planner mod.

I recently started playing a career game using this mod and I have a problem with a contract to return science from the Mun to Kerbin. Here are a couple of screenshots to help explain the issue. In the first one taken while my vehicle is on the surface, I have a green tick against "Situation Landed". However when I lift off to return the science to Kerbin (the second image) the green tick is removed. My question is does the "Situation Landed" tick box get ticked against once I am landed back on Kerbin... feeling like this is a stupid question, but I thought I'd check before heading back to Kerbin. I have an update... I decided to return the sample vehicle to Kerbin and the result was that the contract was not completed. I'm now at a loss as to what is required to satisfy this contract, so any help would be appreciated.

When I get a chance I plan on adding some more.

If you want more variety.

For some reason I'm hearing the name of this thread as a game show audience, shouting out the shows' name along with horrible but catchy game show music. "What's... in... the... fairing..... whoooooo!"

I had a request for a kerbal remake of a shot from one of the Space 1999 episodes and came up with this, complete with 70's beige haze.

Make a large ham, cheese and pickle sandwich then sacrifice it to the Kracken by ritually slicing it in half then devouring it. Followed by re-launching KSP. Go with the Kraken my kerbling.

My latest wallpaper image... all credit to the eagle model to MajorTom69.

When I took MajorTom69 Space 1999 Eagle for a spin I ended up taking a few snapshots along the way, one of which was the basis for this image.

I think you're supposed to launch it from under the water into the sky, not the other way around

Interesting question and welcome to the forum.

Brought Jeb and Dotty in their Space 1999 Eagle back to the KSC after their trip to Mun. Landing it was more than a bit tricky until I realised that there was RCS on-board, after which a safe, if not soft landing was made.

I decided that leaving Jeb and copilot Dotty stranded in Kerbin orbit wasn't an option, so I attempted to bring them in to the KSC. The re-entry went fine and I was able to get them within a few hundred metres of the center without much hassle, although there was a lot of burn, followed by tumble, then burn again action required to do that. Then there was the matter of landing the fine craft, which at first was an impossible mess of slow rolls and crashing into the ground followed by an impressive explosion, followed by F9... it wouldn't have look out of place in the intro to the show. Then I thought "maybe this thing has RCS" and oh yes it did, nice powerful RCS too, that enable me to make a safe, if not totally smooth landing once I'd turned it on. A few pics of Jeb and Dotty's adventures in landing. KSC dead ahead. Looking good. Looking not so good. Made it.

Took the Space 1999 Eagle from MajorTom69 for a spin.

Thanks.

I took the Space 1999 Eagle from MajorTom69 for a spin. That's not a good start. Better. Now where should we go. On the surface (I feel a new wallpaper image coming on. Heading for home. Back in Kerbin orbit... now how do I land this thing.