Meltdown

I recently switched from SMURFF to RF as the cost of a simple orbit-capable rocket went to over 80k Spesos with multiple Asparagus stages and what not. Barely reached the magic 10k dV mark with it. Now I came back to RF (played with it in Stock but got annoyed of the ullage necessity and RT). It looks okay with the Stockalike configs and the realistic mass set to false. My design for an orbiter went from a behemoth with like a million stages to a single shape, 4 engine powered rocket and three stages for 14k Spesos. So my point is yes, the Stockalike config is correct for RSS too but I havent tried any Earth - Jupiter - Pluto windows yet, they might get a bit tricky, especially with RT installed. If you feel still unsecure, you can change the mass of the non-engine-related parts by 25% to compensate. RF is only tweaking the mass of tanks & engines. Thrust aso is still the same afaik.

I finally installed KSP again after 6 month of absence. At my last mission to the Mun, I forgot to attach a darn parachute on my return vessel so I tried to attach two of them on my capsule but somehow they just dissappear but are recognized by the engine as mounted if I switch back into the pilotseat. I know that there was some kind of workaround for that problem but I have forgotten how to rescue kerbal without pulling off a new rescue mission as I allready sent an engineer up with a screwdriver and two chutes in his inventory. Any hints on how to get those darn chutes attached? Maybe another unmaned rocket with preattached chutes which I can disassemble from the rocket and put it on the capsule?