I'll go a little off-topic and include 'things I'd like to see someday' rather than 'in 0.26'. * Equipment/missions to let me better locate asteroids, and display an orbit for them (even if inexact.) * Payload fairings, better drag model for rockets, heat shields, consequences for having inadequate heat shielding on reentry. ** (related to fairings, hollow cylinders and conic joining sections in which I can hide away batteries, non-inline tanks etc.) * Better assembly interface. 95% of the time it works fine, you drop what you want where you want it. The other 5% of the time is just painful, as you wave a part over where you want it and the computer can't figure out where it goes. * Balloons. Stratospheric science probes. Balloon launched rockets. Manned bases in the upper atmosphere of Jool. * Shape morphing structure elements: hinged struts, rotational joints, telescoping struts * An ability to manufacture fuel on some planets, as envisaged in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Direct ** This could include the ability to scoop gasses from atmosphere in * Orbital construction more flexible and advanced than just docking pre-manufactured modules. Possibly involving robot arms like on the international space station and space shuttle. * Possibly in-space construction of simple items: struts, panels etc. Supply it with raw materials (launched from Kerbal)