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I'm embarrassed. Throttle was because Mechjeb was limiting my Q to 20kpa. And I'm just plain stupid and don't know how slowly I need to be going for the radial chutes to open. In other words, I need drogues. *facepalm* I'd delete the thread, but I can't figure out how.

Sigh. Took too long writing this. Got signed out, lost post. Please forgive terseness. Mods: Mechjeb, KER, Alarm Clock, kOS, RCS build Aid, x Science, Safe Chute, Stage Recovery, Trajectories, Infernal Robotics OS: Linux For about two days now--not every time, not with every ship--towards the end of reentry I get locked out of SOME but not all controls. Staging and steering still work, but throttle does not. What also doesn't work, are the parachutes. They've already been activated, but their own internal pressure/altitude/speed computation freezes. It's not that they deploy at the wrong time and get destroyed; they NEVER deploy. A few hundred meters above the sea, at about 230m/s, they still read "Safe to deploy?: unsafe" have dark (I'm colorblind, so I can't say what color) icons and are quite intact and undeployed. Experimentation has shown that I have full control until I drop below just under 26,000m. Around 25,800m. Before that, tapping the throttle makes the engine fire. After, nothing. If I leave the throttle set to full, at this point it drops to 0. This does correspond with my starting to use Trajectories, so I will pull that and try again once I get Jeb safely home, but I don't see how that would cause this. Ideas?

I recently decided to land a lab on the Mun for the first time. I wanted to take advantage of the XP for my kerbals, so I put a Mk1-2 on it with a separater in between. Specifics aren't very important, but I landed the entire craft on the Mun with 5 kerbals, collected science, transferred that data to the lab, then detached the command module and flew 3 kerbals back into orbit. The lab I left behind is kerballed by scientists, has power, battery, antenna... but doesn't process the data into science because it has no probe core or command module. Why do I need a steering wheel to do science? Radios can play music without being attached to a car. I'm fine with it not being able to opperate the RCS thrusters, engines, reaction wheels, even landing gear. It just seems to me that it should do its own self contained job provided it has input, power and staff. At the very least, it should be clear that it won't work without a command module. The in game description says nothing about that, and while the wiki says it is not a command module, it does not state that it requires one to function. The solar panels charge the battery without a command module. A little miffed at the wasted time and money...