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It is sufficient for your craft to register a stable orbit. This means a Periapsis above 70km (and an Apoapsis within Kerbin's SOI). Any eliptical orbit will do. Then perform the test - staging or right-click, depending on contract - while at the required altitude. It is _not_ necessary to have the whole orbit within the bounds. PS: in case this was not clear: as long as your PE is below 70km your ship will not be in an orbit! PPS: it helps if you have the contract displayed in the HUD, that way you can see directly which conditions are met by the green check markers...

The first node in the tech tree features: Kerlington Model Rockets and Paper Products Inc. - Command Pod Mk1 Jebediah Kerman's Junkyard and Spaceship Parts Co. - LV-T30 Liquid Fuel Engine - FL-T200 Fuel Tank Found lying by the side of the road - RT-10 Solid Fuel Booster Maxo Construction Toys - Modular Girder Segment Edit: aaaand the Communotron 16. right. forgot this. A good start, and all of those are allowed. Further, you allowed the following noteworthy parts regardless of chosen brand(s): Found lying by the side of the road - docking ports, all of them - parachutes, all of them - Mystery Goo - Small Inline Reaction Wheel - some more stuff, if you have uses for it, indulge me. This will require a serious pre-planned approach of what to acquire when in the tech-tree... I am not sure i am up to this task... anyway, placeholder in place ;-) Anyway, here's a short rundown on all agencies, according to the wiki, with a short comment. Edit: *snip* see OP post. Will try to see how far i get over the weekend. Update: Sorry, hitting a bit of rock bottom with this weeks time planning (RL), still figuring out how to achieve orbit with explosive staging... currently testing some designs in sandbox mode. this is taking longer than expected. but i am still on it

IMHO if your craft reaches the ground in several different places with different parts, you did not perform multiple landings, you crashed. ;-) on purpose or not.

http://xkcd.com/202/ youtube comments are baaaad ;-)

"Forza Philae! Forza ESA" "Mille Grazie" The good think is, that the important stuff does not need translation ;-)

Besser als der Hesse anschliessend! ;-))))))) Screw office work, I'm watching this!

Touchdown!!!!! Whoooooooooo Congrats!!!!!!!!!

in a few million years WE will be the ancient aliens, and that probe might as well be a precious artifact, after earth explodes

random thought: there should be a Mission Control Room, maybe as a small inset - like the kerbals on "manned" missions - showing some enthusiastic engineers back home on Kerbin, for probe missions. Maybe with a little celebration picture whenever a probe lander touches down. :-D

you are all watching the "live" stream as a comic? XKCD is doing a live drawing stream... I am watching this via http://xkcd1446.org/ for easier access. PS: at the office, can't watch the "real" mission room live stream :-(

time-warp is a cursed blessing, or a blessed curse... *sigh*

are you asking only in terms of physical properties? Robert L. Forward: Dragon's Egg - A civilization evolved on a neutron star. Hard SF, less plot driven, more setting and accuracy focussed. or do you allow interesting concepts, that are engulfed in a gripping narrative? Neal Asher: Spatterjay - extremely well done and 'fleshed out' - pun intended - fauna. my personal SF must-read recommendation ;-) Jack L. Chalker: The Warden Diamond - four planets in one habitable zone, with a catch: once there, you cannot leave. SF classic

Argl! For those of you where the above solution does not work... a) IF you are having difficulties docking with 2xClamp-O-Tron Docking Port Sr. IF you did not read the Wiki then: you should read the Wiki... *facepalm* I feel sooooo stupid, and just wasted >1h getting very frustrated in the end. The senior ports do have two sides, both of which may connect to your vessel during assembly, but only one of which will connect to another docking port. Thought someone should mention this in this thread. Edit: Yes, I did have two ports on my base, was able to use the other one... still, lack of symmetry, center of mass different, lost an hour... bothers me

Launched three Kerbals on a daring tour to Jool. They had plenty of legroom in the hitchhiker storage, four lander modules, several small disposable science probes... and just about enough fuel to either return home or visit one moon. Which of course i only noticed after arrival... That was in 0.24. I since played 0.25 for some weeks - leaving the ship in orbit around Jool. Recently finally decided to visit at least one of the moons, since this would be the last mission in this savegame anyway - loaded, and somehow every single flight in progress was deleted... missing part or something. I think it was the upgrade of Kerbal Engineer Redux from beta to 1.0 that sealed their fate... Still sad about it. So much preparation and the long trip out... and they didn't even set foot on one of the moons :-( Mission Commander Obmore Kerman, you will be missed!

entry one: "Someone" did a slight mistake while trying to send a satellite into a specific orbit. There now is a Kerbileo satellite orbiting in a highly eccentric tour around Kerbin. Its desired orbit is circular at 23,333km x (RL2K-conversion factor) with an inclination of 56°. The craft now swings from more than 2,000 kilometres too high to nearly 10,000 kilometres too low. The orbit is also tilted by about 5 degrees from the intended plane. Please correct this. Thank you. (src: http://www.nature.com/news/wayward-galileo-satellites-could-still-aid-scientists-1.15843) :-D entry two: Rendezvous with Rama An interstellar object is headed into Kerbol's SOI on a hyperbolic trajectory. Meet up with it, "do some science", return home.

http://vimeo.com/110535098 http://myscienceacademy.org/2014/11/03/timelapse-photographer-capturing-the-milky-way-films-giant-fireball-in-the-sky/ snotr is rated as "adult"?!? that is sooo wrong. there's not a single NSFW video on that site... granted, a real time killer, so not exactly good for school computers, but definitively _not_ adult!

http://www.snotr.com/video/14346/Meteor_explosion_Milky_Way_Time_Lapse beautiful! someone installed deadly reentry in RL

O.O They are going to use asparageese (asparagasis?) in RL?!? mind->blown Woah. Did not know that. Awesome! Ok, that seals it, next rocket will have lots of fuel lines and staging errors...

not a good week for spaceflight... :-( ©

I used it for basically everything I ever put into orbit prior to 0.25... but now - playing exclusively in career mode - I have yet to build one. SRB for the win, because... cheaper and stuff. Am I alone? Am I doing something wrong? Do you have a better way? just curious Bonus Question: plural... Asparagi? Asparaguses? Bsparagus? edit: Ohhhkay... 9 pages and the vote seems to be No 34 Yes 22 Rarely 21 Sorry for manual count, still new here, don't know how to post a poll

Please, reconsider. This will drastically change the experience of KSP in a completely different direction than the one you followed so far. This is the thread worth creating a forum account for. A log for each Kerbonaut's achievements? Great! A pretty badge/hat/sunglasses for every Kerbal who got home from Duna? Yes! Having space ships with different - apparent - physical attributes depending on who is flying? Please no. If the argument goes, that an experienced pilot might use less fuel to perform a certain maneuver, have the less experienced pilots get a malus, that is visible on his stats. This malus might decrease to zero on lvl 5... but creating stock parts with variable ISP? ... what about non-stock parts, do they need to account for that, too?