mabarry3

Only mod I have is Kerbal Engineering Redux, if that's causing any issues (which it didn't seem like it was prone to doing), then I'll gladly remove. How do I check my log files?

Yes, it's coming back when I quickload but it doesn't stay for long. Without fail it has disappeared within a minute of quickloading and re-attempting to dock.

So, I've been trying to dock a new space station I set up around the Mun that includes a ore mining & converter outpost so I can see how it works since I'm still trying to understand how effective or ineffective some of this stuff is. Anyway, I have a relatively large rocket I'm trying to dock into this space station because the primary point of it is to be simply a large fuel tank for other ships to refuel off of, replenished by the ore conversions. I'm able to make it close, but then I run into an issue, which you can see by the pictures. The first picture shows me getting cm away from the docking port (albeit at the wrong attitude, which I've thus far been unable to fix since I put my RCS thrusters in the wrong spot and thus they don't turn my craft around like I want it to... and also because I'm horrible at docking) All well and good, right? I can just keep nudging it until I get the attitude correct and then we're golden. But this keeps happening: Without me impacting it (not that a 0.1 m/s impact would do anything anyway), the docking port randomly disappears off of the hub like it was destroyed and I'm not sure why. No explosion, nothing, it just disappears and the space on the hub becomes empty. Does anyone know why this is happening or what I can do to fix it? I've already restarted the game and all that.

Didn't know you could EVA from a ship & a kerbel you didn't control - my only previous experience was being unable to EVA tourists, and I figured the same logic applied. I feel like there should have been a bit of additional explanation on that sort of thing in the in-game rendezvous tutorial (unless I missed it?), that would have helped greatly to not need to figure that part out when it comes to rescuing anything. I had already figured out that I could just EVA my own kerbal if during a rendezvous if I didn't need the ship/wanted to rescue it later, but never knew how to switch to the ship if it wasn't under my control to begin with. It does explain why I got rescue missions well before I ever had access to a docking port/claw, though... Thanks a lot guys. I'll try increasing apoapsis to increase orbital period so we catch up to each other, that makes perfect sense actually. I presume I still need to burn retrograde with respect to target once both my ship and theirs are close to each other to slow the relative velocity down to ~0 so I can EVA over, right?

[if this kind of thing has been discussed before, a link would work fine; I'm new here and haven't looked into all of the forum features] So, I accepted some contracts I haven't tried before after a Minmus trip that got me a lot of new tech and made me want to try doing harder contracts because I wanted to attempt some more difficult things to get the full game experience. Anyway, I accepted two contracts to rendezvous with and save two kerbals stuck in low Kerbin orbit. Turns out they both have identical nearly circular orbits (see the picture) that spans 80-85km. After a few mishaps such as discovering that they had no docking port (since I knew of no other way at the time to save someone), I eventually unlocked the Claw and tried again. Now, I can't seem to rendezvous with them at all. No matter where in my orbit I move the maneuver node, or adjust my [anti]normal or pro/retrograde, I can't get anywhere close to the target without having a periapsis of <40kish. I can either maintain orbit, or get close to the target. I sat on high time warp and let myself orbit a few times to change our relative positions, but it doesn't seem to matter since no matter what it seems like I can't get anywhere close to them without de-orbiting. My last attempt ran around Kerbin for 3 in-game days of trying to get a maneuver node to reach them, adjusting & moving it around, etc, before giving it up and just orbiting again a few times to have another go. I eventually gave up and I can't seem for the life of me to get a rendezvous with them. Anyone have any tips on how to rendezvous with someone in such low orbit?