csvolny

Brilliant! I'm coming here for all my Kerbal needs from now on. I sent this up: Also flew it almost parallel with the ground and it landed nice and soft. Not the prettiest to look at, but that's ok, Jebediah is safe. It never occurred to me to place the Science side-by-side like that. Now I'll send a couple of those to other biomes and accumulate some more science and then open up Tech to get more control over the craft. Thanks again, I was despairing of ever seeing that sight!

Thank you! You guys have given me some excellent ideas to try out. Good to know about the SAS. I read in some other post (or forum, I don't remember) that it was a technology.

I'm playing version 1.04 in Career mode. I am not using any mods. I have Basic Rocketry, Engineering 101 and Survivability and I'm trying to launch my second rocket. I am only going sub-orbital, never reaching an altitude higher than 24,000 or so, but I have this problem if I go higher as well. I have a basic rocket with a Mk I Module, 3 Science Jr., a Hammer, a parachute on the nose and two on the sides of the top Science Jr, and three Mystery Goo containers on the second Science Jr. I also have two sets of 4 fins at the bottom of the rocket and on the third Science Jr. This is only the latest of several different designs. When the fuel burns out and I return to the surface, in all cases, I am going too fast to deploy the parachutes, all the way to the ground. I am unable to control the ship in any way to try and slow it down. Even though the SAS light is on, I have never installed it as I don't have the technology yet. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. From what I've read about similar problems, I'm told to get the speed below 250 m/s. How am I supposed to do this? As you can see from this picture, I still have the "white lines" indicating drag and I'm far too low in altitude to deploy the chutes. As this specific problem doesn't seem to be mentioned, I'm assuming I'm doing something so fundamentally wrong that none of you experts are even thinking of it as a problem. I am completely new with KSP, having purchased it just last weekend. I do not seem to have any difficulties with the heat, when I leave the atmosphere and return, only with air resistance. If someone could help me out or point me in the right direction, I would be most appreciative. Thank you very much, in advance.