tommymsw

Ok, so I looked in the astronaut complex and the "lost" section was empty. But there she was under "available". So I am guessing it was juts a glitch somehow? It wasn't a reverted flight because she was orbiting for a few times that I played and quit. I am in career mode and I do not have an upgraded tracking station. I am still in the very beginning and have not even attempted a trip to the Mun yet. The orbit around the Sun was just me being bored and just blasting a ship as far as I could. I did try to "fly" her ship once before I lost her and it wouldn't load (my PC is not a gaming PC), so it may have just freaked out from the partial load? Thank you for all your help though, you certainly have made my future launches more productive!

The orbit it was on did have it pass back into Kerbin's orbit (even tough it was in orbit around the Sun) . Although I figured it was not likely they would meet up exactly anytime soon, I did think it would be cool to try to land it again. (I had very little fuel left). So my guess was that it may have lined up and then crashed while I was playing? But didn't know if that was possible or that I may have even noticed if it did? I suppose it could have even crossed close to another planet and been thrown off it's orbit? As the orbit did seem to stretch across the paths of other planets. I'll check the astronaut complex... If it says they died, at least I know it crashed and I didn't just lose it.

I am assuming the ship got too close to another object and crashed? Or maybe it just ran out of electricity? I am REALLY new and don't really know how everything works... If the astronauts run out of O2, or die from lack of food? Anyway, is there anyway to find out what happened to the missing ship? Like a log of all lost ships?