Goddess Bhavani

Kind of a freaky coincidence but I just saw this while testing my parody Low Density Supersonic Decelerator on a polar sub-orbital trajectory at dawn. A formation of 3 points of light accelerating ahead of my craft. I didn't actually freak out, however - it was just bits of my stock fairings that I jettisoned a few seconds ago. After firing up a kick stage to send the LDSD into its final trajectory and making some corrections, the debris looked like it was on a parallel flight path being lit up by the rising sun enough to look like they were glowing.

Omg, officially the most fun science mod ever

Must be one of mine

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NASA will soon launch their pie-shaped Low Density Supersonic Decelerator craft. It is designed to test landing technology for future Mars missions. Here at the Kerbal Space Center, we are as enthusiastic as NASA in testing next generation technology and are preparing a revolutionary new spacecraft for lunch. It is similarly shaped as the NASA Low Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) albeit a different type of food. Where the NASA craft looks very much like a pie, our Low Calorie Super Delicious (LCSD) has multiple layers of stacked buns, random veggies and a succulent grilled meat patty topped with American cheese. It has a similar amount of calories but tastes very much different. It is lower in calories than conventional snacks because we refrained from making a Wendy's Quad Stacker this time. Still, the two craft bear an uncanny resemblance in the eyes of nuFAR's voxel-based aerodynamic simulation (both developing a ridiculous amount of drag, which aids greatly in spacecraft thermal protection) and we'll see how the two craft fare tomorrow. One will no doubt majestically soar into the stratosphere on a balloon before igniting its onboard engine and accelerate to Mach 2.35, while the other might just scatter an entire continent with super-sized fast food pieces as the tomato ketchup core reaches its target speed of Mach 3.14159265359.

When the few remaining judges submit their full disclosures of who is the King of All Awesome :3 I'd suggest not to rush them, as there are many categories and individual videos to go through - we certainly want to watch everything that is watchable and bask in the light of all that is awesome :3

Guys are we still taking hard falls and ending up in the hospital? Why not use some radially attached pillows and collect additional science off them? Might still end up with parts broken but you can recover the pillows for additional science making stairs missions more efficient.

I often find taking my time with a build, and engineering every little detail makes for a more rewarding experience, than simply rushing to "make it work" and forget about it a day or two later. Two months is sheer dedication!

I would love to have a 1.02 updated version of this mod. Imagine the possibilities of cardboard box squatter colonies on Duna

@Geschosskopf Here is the ship thread & link to craft file Ship will be updated after rescue of the crew still floating around at sea.

3 weeks for this craft, a forward swept variable geometry sub-orbital craft, which required construction and aerodynamic control techniques to account for dynamically changing CoL at different flight conditions, as well as countering the usual problems of aeroelastic bending inherent in forward swept wing designs. Infernal Robotics parts back then also had the structural strength of a wet noodle, thus requiring a system of strutting and multiple struts per joint to ensure proper stability under flight loads. The craft, as I decided, would also use low tech engines and thus required quite primitive powerplant design - an array of ten scaled down basic jet engines provided acceleration up to Mach 1.2 whereupon a pair of LVT-30s sent the spaceplane to orbit. This is partly because back in the earlier days of Ferram Aerospace, the basic jets had quite a strong nerf. If I re-created this design and simplified it with the latest parts, I'd shirley be able to achieve far greater efficiency. I think :3

It makes possible the construction of micro-shuttles with payload bays. Although far less efficient mass wise than the proven Mk.1 capsule, the 2 man micro-shuttle is much more comfortable and has a trunk for luggage, snacks and everything Kerbals need for a weekend getaway to Minmus!

Lol and here I thought it's because of that hydraulic decoupler I put under the hull to separate it from its launching platform. That seaplane gif above is hilarious

I saw this in a book of WW2 aircraft when I was very young and always wondered the all important question: Why? lol! I just noticed it has only one horizontal stabilizer. What does that do for pitch control? Guess I need to make KSP replica to "Test the Aerodynamics" as usual

While at work teaching KSP to colleagues: "Hold my beer and watch this inflight EVA report!!!"

Singaporean Woman: 1) "Motorcycles are Dangerous" - she does not ride a motorcycle nor gives any reasons why she thinks motorcycles are dangerous, when prompted. However, everyone in the country above a certain age will repeat this same exact phrase to you (also without providing justification or useful safety suggestions). Along with asking you the same social questions in the exact same order, what is this, a nation of robots? 2) "Why do bikers all wear jackets" - when explained, she doesn't seem to "get it" that random road debris hitting you at 60mph is extremely painful. Ditto for constant wind blast and all the other things she'd never experienced in life.

Oh my, the SS Jebediah reported some trouble with an expended decoupler going off along with attracting the Kraken and a distress signal is being transmitted! Someone call International Rescue!

I was at work till the wee hours of the morning and I took the liberty of being the troop's Morale Officer and showing KSP to people. Many a curious onlooker came by to check out what all the talk of delta v, twr, gravity assists and nuklear wessels were all about. I would just pout and show them my X-2 micro shuttle slingshotting around the back side of the Mun 2 kilometers over the munar surface. hehehee. During a skydiving demonstration where an "EVA Report Inflight Over Kerbin's Water" resulted in said EVA reporter plummeting 10,000 ft into the water near a fishing vessel, I discovered something odd about said fishing boat. It was being pulled underwater at an alarming speed and spat out so violently nearly everyone aboard was thrown free of the wreckage. Someone call 911? Or should I call International Rescue?

DMagic Orbital Science has been the mainstay of all my career games so far. Moar science options is always welcome. Adding latest version to 1.02 right meow :3

I never went anywhere beyond Minmus. I have sent probes off to Eve and Duna but they never reached their destination... before the next major KSP update appears. The reason for this is quite simple: I spend all my time building airplanes and helicopters

Released my stock low-tech micro shuttle, used for my first career supersonic flights, first multi-crew orbital flights and onwards to Mun, Minmus and beyond. It even comes with an all-new ridiculous story that makes no sense whatsoever.

"The Ugly Duckling" X-2 Maneuverable Re-Entry Vehicle Testbed (you could also say it's a rocket-launched spaceplane, like the Boeing X-37) Once upon a time... the Bacon Space Program desired a capsule that could maneuver itself into a more favorable re-entry trajectory than smacking into the side of a mountain, or worse still, crashing right smack into a busy intersection during rush hour causing a ten mile long traffic jam. A bunch of interns from the Kerbal University were at the time scouring the beaches near/ to remove quite a number of guidance fins and winglets belonging to various renown rockets of the sub-orbital research program. Their remains were purchased for a few cents per kilogram and unceremoniously sold to some KASA enthusiasts who paid tens of thousands of dollars per pound for a piece of the Space Program. At the behest of the Science Department and with great restraint against auctioning them on KBay for excessive sums of kold hard kash, just a few were retained for further study into the effects of Rapid Unplanned Disassembly. Eventually, the researchers went on to study more interesting things and the winglets that made up the Micro Shuttle Project were simply picked up from the side of the road. They were in remarkably good condition considering many of them were explosively ejected from failing launch vehicles before lodging into the side of Valentina's and subsequently gnawed on and/or ingested by patrons thinking they're some new kind of snack.I'll leave the juicy details to your certainly fertile imagination at this point and move onwards to providing a short history of the rickety deathtrap you're about to pilot possibly for all eternity. The X-2 Maneuverable Re-Entry Vehicle (MARV) testbed is built around a then-experimental inline cockpit module. Perched atop a BACC Thumper solid rocket booster, it was used initially for supersonic research before being placed atop a range of military rocket designs adapted as satellite launchers. There, the X-2 was found to be a poor substitute for the Mark One Capsule, being nearly four tons heavier and regarded as a complete and utter waste of Delta V by the bourgeois administrators. However, the two-seat MARV was certainly more comfortable than the cramped confines of the tiny capsule, and so, after several very uncomfortable solo flybys of the Mun, there began the Mayday Revolution where the followers of the great Jebediah Kerman overthrew the corrupt bourgeois in favor of a new regime where the government always ruled in favour of soft comforts like pillows, cats and other nice fuzzy things. And so the X-2's became not just a very large and heavy paperweight but a symbol of the pillow revolution as well. But by then its sheer mass was no longer relevant. With the perfection of the current moar booster strategy, we could send entire Walmarts into space if the combined will of the proletariat demanded such extravagance. Just then, the earlier-mentioned interns from Kerbal University graduated in an academic display of epic fails and were soon put to work in the First of June Factory Complex where working day and night without pay, they prepared a small fleet of X-2s that brought Jebediah and Valentina to LKO, Mun, Minmus and beyond, soaring forth into the heavens on recycled wings and a prayer that steering for "the second plate on the right, and straight on till dinner" would prevent the launch vehicle from flipping end over end twenty seconds after liftoff. ~ The End ~ Would you, dear reader, like to face certain doom from shoddy engineering yourself? Download the X-2 from KerbalX!

This is an outrage. After I told Bill I made a plane bigger than my hangar doors, he replied "it will cost me money to resolve this". Also on the ceiling of the cargo bay are my all new awesome crossed struts construction technique inspired by *blush* corset lacing, of all things.

True that, it's only after exploding 50 times when landing that I finally put landing gear on my micro-shuttle that makes regular trips to the Mun. I call that... experiential development

I'm looking forward to starting a career with the Civilian Population mod. Since I run with part research needed, I am usually short of funds to upgrade the research center and SPH. Time to become a space landlord :3