RogalDorn

I think people underestimate the training / development / pay / organizational costs / even the PR issues if one dies that are associated with a Kerbalnaut...I think 400k may actually be an understatement of the real cost. But then again...you can't build a rocket for a 50k IRL...so who knows!

I knew I wanted SOMETHING different about the contracts. This nails it perfectly on the nose. That is EXACTLY what would make contracts amazing! Great Idea!

150 hours of KSP and I am still learning the interface!!! That is EXCELLENT to know. Thanks!

(Sorry for the lack of screenshots...no idea this was going to become so silly!) I was very excited about trying to finish a mission to put a science station in orbit of the Mun. I designed my lifter, got everything prepped and eventually got it into LKO, but my ship wiggled around so much that I was way off equatorial orbit. I tried to correct it, but ran out of everything including RCS. Huge fail...but I still had a space station in LKO! So I sent up a ship to refuel it...huge success, this was my first time docking two ships together! I was able to get the thing two thirds of the way filled with fuel AND fully fill the RCS systems. TIME TO GO TO THE MUN!!! So I flew the thing to the moon, got my intercept set up and executed. But I didn't have enough fuel to make an Orbit! "Ruh Roh!!! USE THE RCS!!!" Used up all my RCS and managed to get into an orbit with a Periapsis of 7k and an Apo of 1.6 Million at a crazy crazy non equatorial orbit... Technically...mission accomplished...BUT NO! SEND THE MUNAR PROBE REFUELER!!! Managed to match orbit and Dock a refueling ship with an engineer to fix some broken solar panels (Thought you could...apparently not), but accidentally hit space bar and detached my engines... But I did refuel the RCS Systems! End result, Munar Orbiter Alpha is in a stable circular orbit of 30k...but still not a totally normal equatorial orbit. totally out of RCS AND no engines, probably need 200 more dV to finish getting things perfect... Do you guys think I should send ANOTHER ship to join the party?

"F5 for Safety!" As for me it was when I did my very first launch with a flea lander in the Kerbal Grasslands. Poor Jeb freaked out on his ladder and flew into the center of Kerbin never to be heard from again. I restarted the campaign immediately as I never thought I would need to F5 a flea launch from KSP... Overall, 1.0 and the subsequent patches have been 100% stable on my rig. But I am the only person I think who actually plays completely vanilla stock KSP, so that's probably why...

I registered on this page just so that I could say this. This thread has dominated 2 hours of my day, and completely blown my mind. I would love to know what the final mission time was for this, but I can't quite make it out. So ridiculously inspiring!!!!!!!!!! Thank you for documenting so well.