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I rarely use only SRB's alone. Ability to alter cavity patterns would change that though! This really needs to become part of the game. Either in vanilla or in mod. Here's STS SRB. Note how propellant is profiled to give a hard kick first, then to keep it constant and in the end to gently die down.

[Jonah-Jameson-Laugh.gif] We could colonize solar system with what we'll have planned/in operation within next ten years.

Imagine if we harvest blood from pigs in near future. Could we all become youthful and pretty and all that nonsense? There's very little ethically wrong with milking a piglet for life fluids.

Is this "EM Drive" other name for VASIMR?

This exactly. Soviets had to be gimbal wizards! This windtunnel model is what originally sparked my question. Pushing ET so much forward moves COM too and cuts back the angle at which engines need to be pointed.

How many engines you use, which engines and have you limited gimballing on those engines? 9/10 times my rockets oscillate it's solvable by tweaking gimballing.

Have you tried SpaceY and SpaceY extended? Ton of different SRB's from tiny ones to huge ones, 5 and 7.5m parts and bunch of other things. If you like Russian rockets Tantares and Tantares LV ftw! (I use both)

Added some pictures from same flight. I loaded a save which I had forgotten so it's technically same flight I guess.

Mine I guess. Mind if I launch same rocket again and take the missing "after landing" shot preferably on solid ground? Isn't kerosene pretty much jet fuel?

Can they really gimbal that much? It seems so unnatural!

I just stumbled on this film of Buran's (only) launch. My question is how does this thing balance itself? How does a rocket fly straight when up to 105 ton tumor is strapped on it's side? Buran-Energia's boosters are bit offset in wrong direction making it lean even more "on it's back". Did they have mad reaction wheels on board?

Here's my completely stock try. It can space ship. That is 20 Reliants and as many Thuds. About 250 meters. Lousy kross. I need to look into it deeper. Boosters always rotate same way after separation so probably balance issue. Third stage firing. Four Reliants, no Thuds. LES and fairing separation. Preparing to fire circulation burn with third stage still attached. This thing has surprisingly much 'fast' in tanks. And here we are finally on orbit. Yay? Control thrusters are placed as correctly as I know. We had our fun on orbit, time to go home. We don't need this. Or that. Proper attitude and down we go. Chute isn't deploying properly! Whew! I had to jettison the cosmetic shroud but it works now. And retrorockets fire! Alternate ending from same save, cause all the films do them!

Around and north of Miniafrica and Megaspain you can see the Sea of Sleeping Xenomorph. Also north of Russia, Japan, Sakhalin and Kurils there's peninsula that reminds me of India.

This definitely deserves a sticky. ThisIsGreat.jpeg

Does this mod have a basic 2.5m round passenger module?

NavBall freakout is something that can annoy greatly. Game just decides that prograde is now retrograde and retrograde is down.

I have full confidence that I'll play this game for many years to come. It's right there on the list of solid games with UT99, AoE2, BF 1942&2 and Simcity 4.

Perform orbital strike on KSC and destroy some building(s). No terminal manoeuvring.

I'm going to say Reliant is pretty much best stock engine in early career and thrust vectoring is overrated. I wish more engines had a lighter, more powerful and cheaper variant without gimballing. I've never understood how to use Juno. That thing is next to useless.

Would it be possible for Kerbals to fall in hibernation/sleep instead of dying when supplies run out? That way they would be unable to work but once fresh supplies arrive they could wake up, pop soda and go on with their tasks. Kind of like Tardigrades! I'd love to have life support included in the game to justify repeated flights to station(s) but having crews die is bit harsh IMO.

Is it a list if it has only one thing listed? Mine would be to check that ALL the crew is located in the command module. Before I started to use proper checklists I flew a Soyuz to a rescue mission on LKO. Jebediah returned alone, while the other guy burned up with the orbital module.

Kraken definitely exists. Just today I launched my LV-N powered cruiser to take care of those space tourist missions to Mun and Minmus orbits. Everything went well but when I dumped last of the lifting rockets I noticed that craft tends to roll right when accelerating. Kraken mangled my ship. It is in one piece but bent in every direction possible. I don't know if this is better or worse than complete destruction. More struts?

Going to bump this back up, cause Energia-STS-ish shuttles are really hard without multiple throttles. My current project has three engines on the orbiter, four in reusable core/fuel tank and two sets of LF boosters. I'd need like minimum of two, preferably four throttles to get this thing fly properly. Trying to right click and adjust individual engines is sort of hard during ascent, though easier than in previous builds as popups may stay..