This game is all kinds of brilliant. Now I have got some of the basics, I decided that trying to earn money was proving a bit of a distraction so I restarted on "science" mode, but with some of the "hard" settings - including "crew don't respawn" which I assume means when they're dead, they're dead. Also, no restarting flights. Certainly focuses the mind.
Are there any pitfalls to this method, other than having to start again when something goes wrong?
Also, does the game make any log of missions, or allow the user to do so? For this "hard" save I'd like to log every achievement and failure along the way. For instance Jebediah Kermin died on my very first launch when his parachute failed - I assume because I deployed it too early?