Hadn't played for a while so I built a quick space shuttle out of stock components. Blew the wings and rear landing gear off during launch but it made orbit. Landing it with crew is ill advised.... Launched a rescue mission to save the crew. Then realized while transferring crew I was short a seat on the rescue ship. Going to have to launch another smaller rescue ship tomorrow for Jeb.
Afterwards I am going to deorbit and try to ditch it in the ocean. Might work, have a bunch of fuel and two rear parachutes originally installed for braking upon touchdown. If I had thought to put in a docking port I could have used it as the base of a space station.
Then, reengineer the shuttle a bit...