Karlos

Haha... wouldn't that be something... Sadly I suspect my technical programming knowledge is WAY below the standard required for that kind of intervention. Thank you all for help/advice/replies... I may not have solved my issue, but at least (thanks to your help) I can now acknowledge that the limitation is not of my own making and move on. Having spent about a Million Bucks on and WEEKS of anguish on this for a 50k reward, I feel justified in hitting ALT F12 - Mission Complete!! :-) This info was the clincher... many thanks for the reference... much appreciated.

Yes,I think you’ve nailed the problem... I accepted this contract when the programme was very very early in its development as it had an unlimited time for completion, and it was WAY before they fixed a lot of the early bugs. So yes... I guess the challenge remains but the piece remains unrootable.

Yes... sorry... I actually have a few screen shots but couldn't for the life of me figure how to post them here... Sorted it now... URLs below: https://imgur.com/srhxybe https://imgur.com/Cqyuaqr https://imgur.com/eXuOVUp https://imgur.com/I0aIyjz Sound advice for sure... I tried switching to it... and I can... but I can't do anything with it and it doesn't become solid again.

So... I've wasted a PHENOMENAL amount of money and resources in trying to keep my reputation by completing this small, apparently easy task of recovering a small object from Kerbin's Orbit, only to discover it's physically impossible! Multiple (literally hundreds) of attempts to grab it with the grappler, (it bounces off), squash it between two ships armed with grapplers, (it still bounces off), contain it in a cargo hold, (works great until you manoeuvre the vessel then it falls out 'though' the side). Even tried to contain it in a cargo hold with a grappler fitted inside (despite bouncing around on and off the grappler it still doesn't attach. All attempts have proved fruitless so, in absolute desperation, I sent a 4th ship - this time 'manned'. Deployed the guy on EVA to see if it could physically be grabbed... and (surprise surprise) he flew right through it!!! - No contact... like it doesn't exist. Hacked off... I've spent literally hundreds of thousands on assets and countless hours of play on this challenge for a mere 50k reward just to do it properly, as a matter of principle... Any ideas would be very welcomed please.

I've had a few 'accidental' parachute deployments in space, where obviously the parachute doesn't actually deploy, but is no longer seated. It's not 'broken' as such, but does need to be repacked if you want to use it for later activation through the normal staging process. It would be cool if an engineer could do a space walk to reset or repack them.