MarvelousBreadfish

Decouplers - both radial and stack, and fuel lines.

Kerbal Alarm Clock + Kerbal Engineer + Transfer Window

Capture a Class D asteroid and take it on an escape trajectory from the Sun.

I see. Well, for KSP at least I don't think less drag is worth the weight penalty.

Struts are one thing, but some fairings are absolutely ridiculous and can weigh more than the payload itself. I was building a relatively sleek 14t mining ship, and the fairing around it was 20 t, leaving my upper stage at 34 tons. How can a thin outer shell weigh more than a drilling station + ore rafinery?

I got about 3500 science from a hop around mission on Minmus. Lots of samples and reports from multiple flat areas, highlands, slopes and stuff. Playing on normal though. Oh, and experiments, lots of them since I had a full crew with a scientist on board.

In 1.0 my capsule would explode on the most shallow re-entry coming back from the Mun, without a heatshield. In 1.0.2, I came back from Duna with an entire craft, at 6.000 m/s on virtually the same trajectory, and the ship was fine. Also I have noticed that on a trajectory where your ablator is gonna fully burn up, a craft or capsule without a heatshield will be perfectly fine regardless. So yeah, the changes between the two versions are pretty radical.