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I've tried direct ascents to the Mun verses orbiting first, the direct ascent always used more fuel. This wasn't by burning straight up though, but at about 45 degrees for most of the flight.

The forums don't serve popups as far as I know, just a few banner ads, I think you are overdue a virus scan :/

The kerbal Space Program forums are not the place for insults and personal attacks, this thread ends here, and I recommend that similar comments are not taken to other threads.

Not sure steelgrey, have you tried quicksaving and quickloading?

Very nice craft MajorJim, look out for Cupcakes offer of employment Vtol craft are, in my opinion at least, the most fun one can have in the atmosphere especially when trying to land with jets alone, and you have the looks of this craft spot on

In a perfect world we wouldn't be able to block hatches, though we do have whack a kerbal (alt+F12), we can knock those pesky misplaced parts off our craft if we're careful

There's plenty of tutorials on how to reach the Mun, but basically if you wait for the Mun to rise while you are in orbit around Kerbin and accelerate to about 3100m/s, you'll get there

Very brutal, that science won't know what hit it

Just how big is this rocket?

This would be very hard and require expert timing, you'd essentially have to launch at the exact moment, angle and with enough force to coast out of Kerbins SoI and intercept Duna's SoI. Forget orbiting Duna without intersecting Duna's atmosphere, and forget landing unless you want to drag your open parachutes into orbit with you, that's if they still stay open in space. The ship this challenge is based on is only capable of Kerbin orbit, asking to reach Duna this way is asking too much I think. Please see the challenge guidelines and have a go yourself inigma, but I think you should redo this challenge as simply getting to orbit or at most, a free return trajectory around the Mun, and allow the opening of parachutes.

Now we can tweak sepratrons, if someone were clever enough they could make a rocket that did a proper gravity turn

Nice work Space peanut, rescue missions are fun, they can also be quite frequent

About 33% of the posts in this thread could have been better :/ Try not to devolve the thread guys.

I got to spend time with my Dad

Great mission report katateochi, I like it so much I've stickied you

Brilliant craft Sickle, also you've been stickied

Great challenge Monty_Droppings, and congratulations for being stickied for January

With this thread I can start building bases properly, instead of doing this... Thanks Temstar, and congratulations on being stickied for the second time

Today I went back to 0.13 to land on the Mun Also, congrats for another excellent thread!

January is a time for reflection on the year past, and a time to look to the future, so we'll begin with a new thread for 2014, see the 2013 thread here. Without further ado... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This may be an old thread, but it is still as relevant today and will be for some time to come, so a big thanks goes to Xeldrak once more, tell us, what did you do in KSP today? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Temstar impresses us again with his secrets of base construction, and here was me trying to land all my base parts close enough to magnetize It'd be great to someday see NASA, or maybe SpaceX do the same thing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monty_Droppings wins points for excellent writing alone in his hilarious THE EXTREME ION CHALLENGE! It's a great way to get more people to appreciate, or curse, the feeblest engine in the game, and gives a taste of how our own future probes are likely to explore the solar system ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I'll admit it, I'm a sucker for real world craft made from stock parts, so much ingenuity goes into these vessels and it's humbling to think that their real world counterparts have been in space for so long, so thanks Sickle for these amazing designs! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ katateochi will have you smiling with his mission report by the Wrong Brothers - career mode done differently, can you imagine trying to build a plane when you've never seen one before? At least the Wright brothers had birds. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ And finally, kola2DONO asks us all to share what we got for Christmas, some of us got presents, some of us got the flu Jokes aside, we should all spare a thought for the people who couldn't enjoy the holidays, those who are alone, those with little or no means to celebrate, if you know someone like that then go say hello, share a few words, even though the holidays have ended it means far more than you can imagine ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ That's it for January, fly safe!

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The most likely future is slower than light travel :/

Eerie sight, what was previously a major part of the fire and noise of a rocket launch now drifting silently, gradually receding only to be lost to us.

Mousing over the stage area will cause it to lock, as KSP thinks you are going to adjust the staging. So be careful where you're pointing that mouse of yours

Is this in the tutorial? There was a bug in the first tutorial but I thought it was fixed. Otherwise try deleting your settings.cfg and starting the game with LC_ALL=C