Ultimate Steve

Okay, so for continuity's sake I'm maintaining that Kerbmun is barely Kerbal Habitable, despite the fact that Kerbmun's surface is now 150 degrees F at sea level. @GregroxMun Was this intentional, or just an unintended result of atmosphere standardization?

I don't think I've posted this here before:

So are we going to get the full version?

Speaking of the Energia, I think they had all that equipment installed for the only two flights according to memory and the pictures... Is there any information about any recovery attempts?

So this is more intended as a discussion of whether or not it would be possible than an actual request, but I was listening to a rock cover of "Over the Rainbow" when it occurred to me that I've never seen rainbows in any KSP visual mod. Or, for that matter, clouds outside of layers, like puffy ones, sparse ones, or rising ones or anything like that... Or fog. But that's secondary. Are there any visual mods that add rainbows, and if not, is the limitation just the fact that nobody has thought it was worth it?

Well, technically August 7, 2017 makes it just 1.25 years, but welcome back!

Chapter 13 - Useless expensive hunk of metal

@Spaceception I saw that video a few days ago, and I'm currently going through Calculus, and I already understand about 1/3 of the video!

This thread may be of interest:

I'd like to help, but both videos are blocked at my school, probably for having the word "missile" in the title.

That actually makes me curious... What if you used a Jupiter gravity assist to get a low perihelion instead of 7 Venus flybys? The orbital period would be longer, but would getting to perihelion quicker and lower be worth it?

What I've done for Kerbin once, as a "scientific" test of migration, was taking 800 or so probes to a Mun encounter, spinning up the spacecraft, and releasing them at different times. This was before CommNet but I imagine that it should work just as well. Eventually the probes will crash into the Mun or Kerbin or orbit the sun, but unless you do a few interplanetary missions it should stay serviceable. I'd imagine doing it at Jool would produce more scatter, but constellation lifetime would be greatly reduced because of the three large moons.

Is the November thread in progress? It is the second and I don't see one... Not to rush you or anything, just making sure you guys didn't forget!

Mine too!

If you zoom in on this picture, you can see some more images, including what appears to be one of the stages on the ground.

I wish they had included an object for scale!

It looks real to me, but I don't know what RC said.

4 of them! I almost caught a 5th, I touched it before it landed but I slipped and fell.

Chapter 12 - Balloons and Model Rockets

The Estes-produced one.

Imagine trying to drive a rover down that steep of a slope... You'd have to keep any base to pretty much one of 6 landing points to keep it from falling downhill! This would certainly be interesting... I think there's a decent amount of space around Gememma but if there's room I'd put it a bit closer if I were you.

I launched three more rockets today, for a total of 10 this month, a new record! Launch 1 - Unnamed rocket given to me a while back, obviously one of those bought-in-bulk school project rockets. We named it "Nyooom!" on site and launched it on an A8-3, successfully. Launch 2 - Astron III, built at scout camp a few years back. Unfortunately the parachute was too tight and the glue too old, instead of deploying the chute, the ejection charge on the B6-4 motor ejected the entire engine compartment... Launch X - 2 stage Comanche-3 on a B6-0 and a B6-6. Unfortunately I wanted to check the streamer pack for tightness because of what happened to the last launch, and it was too tight to get out. I ended up breaking the shock cord in 2 places, so no launch. Launch 3 - Olympian Mission 7 - E9-8. The first E engine I have ever launched successfully. Unfortunately the altimeter did not trigger, but on the packaging it says it should have gone around 1600 feet up, but since we had the weight of an altimeter, some spin due to subpar fins, a slightly off-vertical launch angle, and an exterior backup shock cord (which failed) I'm guessing it was more like 1400-1500. If it is towards the upper end of that spectrum, then that is a new altitude record for the Notebook Space Program, on par with the Hi-flier on a C6-7 and a 2 stage variant of the Comanche-3. But that record will only stand until I finally let off the Comanche-3 in its 3 staged configuration - 2250 feet, here we come!

I hope you feel better soon! Unrelated I think I'm going to add a Greg Kerman to my Whirligig save.

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