Hobbesian

God I wish I actually kept track of this. If I had to guess, it'd be Aurelia Sîrbu or Sten Olsson (Both Pilots). I by my own estimate have sent both of them up atleast 7-8 times. Eva's I know who that'd be, Ilie Ionescu (Scientist), he's done a whopping total of... 3. I don't do EVA's very often so, yeah. Aside from those 3, I do not know. By the way, I use kerbal renamer (? It came bundled with RO when I installed it on CKAN) so their names are the same as people I would likely meet.

Not today exactly, but within the past 24 hours. And lacking in screenshots due to my complete forgetfulness. Launched a custom hubble-like satellite in RSS/RO using KCHS & BDB parts. Launched aboard a shuttle, however payload deployment ended in a "Return to VAB" because I forgot to add a control module to the satellite, afterwhich KSP crashed. I also finished my custom Tiangong station by launching and docking Wentian.

Well, here in Bucharest it actually snowed today. Used to be a cold city but the past few years snow has become rare. Aside from being packed like a damned sardine on the bus, and experiencing the first actually cold day of winter here. Completely unserious climate in this city.

Starting my Bachelors in History & Education this September. Also studying up to take A-Levels in Maths & Physics so I can apply to Aerospace Engineering some time within the next 1 or 2 decades.

Why was STS-125 launched without a docking port? As in, it had the adapter that is normally used to dock with say the ISS, but it lacked the top docking port, operating exclusivley as an airlock. I'd assume if STS-125 had a docking port, in the event of STS-400 having to go up, Endeavour could have (placing endeavour's docking adapter more in the middle of the bay to maximize clearance) docked with Atlantis instead of the spacewalk crew transfer. I will say that I am familiar with most other reasons why STS-125 didn't. Weight, no real expected use due to the high altitude and low inclination making an ISS rendezvous impossible. But why didn't they add one as a contingency? If I had to guess it was due to there simply not being enough clearance even if Endeavour had her docking adapter moved somewhere to the center. I can't visualize it in my head how such a procedure would look and if there would be point of danger. Likely a fairly stupid question, but that's why it's here. I'm just curious as to why they decided not to go through with this plan, or if it was even considered. STS-125 was planned well in advance, and came after the risks of shuttle free-flying came to light after Columbia.

Kerbal Space Program is easily my comfort game. This game has been with me through thick and thin. I started playing when I was fairly young, I always loved space as a kid and naturally I found out about Scott Manley in 2013-ish. In those days he could have been considered a KSP Youtuber. I got the game around 2015, either a few days before or after 1.0 came out, as a "belated birthday gift" from my parents. I had actually played the free demo before that but as with all demos they're limiting. I was never good at it then, getting to orbit for little me was an achievement on it's own. It took me 2 years before I got my first Mun encounter even. But I loved it anyway. I then started to watch old Danny2462 videos, Matt Lowne vids, Hazard-ish, and even RSS youtubers (Remember Chris P. Bacon?). Those were my afternoons and evenings after coming home from school, play a bit of KSP and watch KSP vids. The game stayed with me as I got older, I learnt how to mod the game (which is a liquid easy task but not so easy to a 10 year old using his mother's macbook), I learnt how to actually dock, rendezvous (which im still awful at), and visit different moons and planets. Looking back on old screenshots from these days everything looks so bare but back then seeing this low resolution textured ball flying towards the mun in an attempt to recreate some old Soviet lunar mission was so much fun for me. As I also love history, and specifically space history, I got into recreating real missions and crafts as well as I could. Mods helped so much. When I think of those days I remember being a kid, just fawning over some rocket engines, and I was happy. These days I still play KSP, I still watch the videos (For the channels who still upload), and when I heard that becoming an aerospace engineer was unlikely for me due to dyscalculia, KSP helped me cope with that. KSP is actually what kept me aiming for that education, and I'm working on getting my exams in order to apply. The way I play it now would definitely give a younger me some form of aneurysm, RSS/RO running kOS scripts and principia, but I have fun anyway. Really it was the customizability of the game through mods that kept me interested in it. Sorry for the only partially structured gushing and memories, it's hard to structure my thoughts on something like this. KSP has been with me for over 10 years, and I hope it will remain with me for another 10 (given my hardware situation that's not unlikely).

Thank you

Could I have my name changed to Hobbesian?

Hey sorry for taking almost a year but I have a mostly vanilla game setup when it comes to physics adjustments or scaling. The issue comes during reentry, where at around 20km the capsule will flip prograde and cannot be returned to the proper position. I have been able to somewhat mitigate this by sticking some SAS modules inside the capsule. I'm not sure what causes it. I think the capsule may be too light in my game so I'll need to see how that can be fixed on atleast my end.

Old post but It feels like the line is more around 50 to me, but just like in real life you cant orbit as low as the line so 70 would be the equivalent to maybe around 180-220 on earth.

Just wondering if there is anyone else experiencing an issue with the Shenzhou Descent Module flipping to prograde during reentry? It happens every reentry and im not sure why, this issue did not exist when it was still ICSP/NCAP and im not sure what was changed to cause this

Got it fixed, reinstalled it all and it works fine now, I installed it wrong it seems

I've encountered an issue, none of the parts appear in the VAB. I'm not sure if I installed it incorrectly, as I only installed the launch vehicles and human spaceflight packs. I will reinstall it to see if I made a mistake somewhere along the way. The only 2 parts that appear are the parachutes, but they are completely broken.

While i feel it may be a version issue, i'm having issues with the ICSP and Chinese pack continued mods. I got them for the Shenzhou, but the re-entry capsule isn't showing up. And specifically that. All the other parts are appearing, but not the capsule. Same is with other mods, certain very specific parts will be missing from the game, like the engine mount on DECQ's Shuttle mod. Does anyone know what is happening and if i can fix it? if so, Thanks. Edit: Re-installed ICSP, entry module was fine and appeared but now the orbital module just vanished.