ToothyTurtle

I just started on rescue missions and felt that I had the hang of a few things. I had low rep so got a land on Mun and send back science. Thought it would be was. The Mun lander crashed with Jeb inside, managed to transmit the science but Jeb was standed. Sent a rescue party including a scientist and engineer for experience. Problem it landed 4 km away from the crashed lander and I was feeling good. Turns out there is no fuel for a return flight so I am contemplating a rescue ship for my rescue ship. 4 Kerbals stranded on the Mun. Today started off so well!

I left Jeb with SAS on when doing a early rescue mission. With no RCS I had to make rendezvous manoeuvres with just a LVT909. It almost ruined a two Kerbal rescue mission costing 60k. I don't know how, but I managed it.

I managed to rescue a Kerbal today from LKO. I have been playing career (on Normal but with no starting funds) and finally got a Mun Flyby mission and used the science to get the Skipper Engines. Then I got two rescue contracts and thought yeah lets do this. Although I have never tried a rendezvous nor even a close landing before. I don't have RCS unlocked and forgot to tell Jeb to stop doing SAS so I had two orbits with no reaction wheels. I built big and managed to get 5 FLT-800s with LVT 909s in space with 3 Capsules on. So I managed to rendezvous taking about 3 hours realtime but about 3 days from mission launch. It is so satisfying to manage it, even though I think it was more luck than judgment. Got another to save on a similar orbit so hope I can grab her aswell. I have had KSP a while, got it on steam before 0.90 but cannot remember when I started (it did have all planets/moons though) and picked it up/put it down here and there but am having a lot of fun and frustration with the Career mode.