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Honestly excited for the interstellar stuff....still a long way off, but its something that I think will be absolutely amazing when it comes out in due time.

Heyo, is anyone possibly running into an issue where the part action screen (the one that appears when you right-click a part in flight) doesn't appear (aside from the hashtag and pin buttons)? Not sure if its related to the mod but it started happening after I installed it for the first time. The green bar for maneuvers is also gone apparently?

Episode 03: REDSTONE

Episode 02: Munar Links

Well, it's been a while since I've been on the Forums, hasn't it? Nonetheless, hello! I'm happy to return to KSP with my first ever full video series' pilot first episode! Project Frontier will be my official take on what a Kerbalized post-Apollo space program would've looked like. From brand-new, totally-not-based-on-Saturn-vehicle designs, to beautiful space stations, expeditions across the Kerbol system, and one-way missions to Jool and beyond, I hope to create a cool storyline with this new series of mine on YouTube. I hope y'all enjoy! (Also, pardon my skills, its been a minute since I've played KSP Episode 01: Launching Frontier I

Chapter 5 – Refocus “Mr. Speaker. Senators, Congressmen, and fellow Americans. The year of 1975 is upon us. This year, the United States must and will continue to develop her spaceflight capabilities in order to ensure the peaceful exploitation of space and the maintenance of the status quo. Last year, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration continued efforts to bring into operation the Space Transportation System (STS), or Space Shuttle, with the goal of increasing American human space launch capacity tenfold. This could not have been done without your support, and the hard work that the American public has undergone. Skylab experienced numerous delays in 1974, but the space station is now on track for launch and is expected to be ready by June of this year. The plans to launch additional humans and land them on the Moon continue at a rapid pace. Project Astra, using the remaining three Saturn V rockets and the three Lunar Landing Modules, will attempt to establish Moon Base Camp Alpha on the surface of the Moon, as planned in Apollo 18 and Apollo 19. This Base Camp will receive crew rotations every three months, and will serve as a vital stepping stone to the establishment of the Lunar orbital space station. Thirdly, the United States is moving steadfast towards its goals to launch a Mars flyby mission by the year of 1990. Although this date remains far, NASA moves rapidly to achieve our goals at a right pace. Design and development on our Mars Transition Vehicle is ongoing, and the launch vehicle for these Mars missions, the Neptune, is undergoing tests and early engine manufacturing. The Neptune family will be modelled after the highly-successful Saturn family of launch vehicles. That is all for today, I thank you all, and God bless the United States of America.” -Excerpt from President Gerald R. Ford during the 1975 State of the Union Address --- President Ford’s speech outlined the future of American spaceflight goals, ranging from getting the Space Transportation System up and running as soon as possible to launching rapid preparations for the Mars flyby mission, slated for 1990. The President also confirmed, to the delight of Saturn scientists and one Wernher Von Braun, who had recently been re-added back to the ranks of NASA’s scientific research and development arm. In early 1975, NASA’s launch schedule died down a bit due to government insistence that the STS and Skylab programs be prioritized over normal satellite launches, resulting in only one satellite being launched into space by NASA in February of 1975, that being a US Air Force satellite launched from Cape Canaveral. --- Over the Iron Curtain, things were not going the way Sergei Korolev wanted them to go. He had recently been turned down by Valentin Glushko on a proposal to unite forces once more to repair the N1 damages and start utilizing it for Moon and Mars missions by 1976 at the latest. Although Glushko had refused to assist him on the grounds that he was too busy, Korolev was not the man to give up that easily. He knocked on Glushko’s front door, grasping a letter with the seal of the Premier of the Soviet Union emblazoned on the top. Documents carrying that seal were usually written by or on the behalf of the Premier of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or the General-Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Glushko opened the door, his clothing ruffled and his eyes droopy. Korolev guessed he had been sleeping. “What do you want, Korolev?” said Glushko, his voice harsh and obviously not pleased by the sudden interruption of his nap. “Comrade Glushko. From the top office.” stated Korolev firmly, before handing over the letter to Glushko. As the engine designer’s eyes skimmed the letter, his eyes grew progressively wider and wider, his posture slowly straightening and his facial expressions changing from annoyed to surprised. As Korolev observed all this, he smiled faintly. “I- Comrade Korolev, please do come in.” Responded Glushko, before opening his door wide enough and beckoning for Sergei Korolev, the famed Soviet rocket designer, to enter his lovely abode in Moscow. --- The sounds of construction work and welding rung all over the facility as a group of men, clearly from Administration, walked about the facility wearing dull sky-blue polos and ties with a bright yellow hard hat on top. At the forefront was a tall, late-sixties to early-seventies, yet firm in his stance German-American, and he was Wernher Von Braun. “Marion, how’s progress on the tank going?” asked Von Braun, looking and referring to a young woman in a white lab coat and dull blue hard hat, who was reading through her checklist thoroughly, as if confused by something. “Marion?” asks Von Braun again, a bit annoyed but still pleased at how focused the young scientist was on her work. “Oh, Mr. Von Braun! The uh- the tank is going well, it should be raised up rather soon- Hold on, in fact its being raised up now!” responds Marion, her eyes now turned upwards, looking up into the dizzying height of the Vehicle Assembly Building, or VAB. As if on cue, the rest of the delegation looks skyward, or should I say roofward, to see a massive orange tank being hoisted into the air by a bright yellow crane attached to the ceiling of the VAB. As the gigantic front doors of the massive building were open, allowing sunshine to enter the building, the group had to shield their eyes from the sunlight in order to see all the way. “Good job, Marion, the rest of you. I’ll be back on Friday to check up again. Keep up the good work!” said Von Braun, before checking his watch and bading goodbye to the group, who continued to look roofward at the spectacle of a gigantic orange fuel tank being moved a few meters. It was clear in everyone’s mind that the Americans had the lead over the Soviets now. But, unbeknownst to them and most of the public, the Russians had a big event coming up, and it would shift both American views of Soviet technology and the tables of the Space Race, which is just heating up.

Hello, everyone! Again, sincere apologies for the delay, but finally, Chapter 5 is coming in less than an hour! I am about to wrap up proofreading, and I hope to finally get this Chapter out ahead of the Grand Finale some two chapters down the line. (Yes, I will be extending Project Astra quite a bit)

Hello! Does anyone know whether an RTX 3060 laptop GPU is capable of running the 43k Kerbin clouds without serious amounts of lag? And as for the installation process, do we just have to drop AVP, the textures, and the dependencies into GameData or are there additional instructions that needs to be followed? Thanks!

Can we use Module Manager on KSP 1.12 already? (ie. does it work without bugs?)

Is Scatterer already compatible with KSP 1.12?

Well, this has aged quite a bit, hasn't it? This story has been really great fun to write, but has spanned several months now (nearly a year) and only has four chapters under it. I've really appreciated the support from all of you, and I'll most certainly be continuing to write here. However, due to the multi-week separation between chapters, I've sort of lost where I originally planned to go with this story. As some of you may have seen, in the recent chapter I've had to wipe all past programs as, frankly, I've lost track of them all. I am also not that much of a fan of the idea of landing on a new planet (???) in a story that I had originally meant to focus on returning to the Lunar surface sustainably and for long periods of time (sounds like a certain NASA project, doesn't it?) Anyways, I have decided to change things up as I enter a new and exciting stage in my life by announcing that I will only be doing one or two more chapters of Project Astra before officially ending this thread, sort of. No, I do not plan to stop writing. This story in my opinion is to good to be cut short like this. In order to ensure that my storyline stays organized and true to its original aspirations, I plan to end Project Astra within the next two chapters (I have a really, really, cool ending in mind), and then continue the storyline in a new thread, with a new title, and a much grander goal. Expect this new storyline to begin sometime in late July to early August. And yes, that does mean the last two chapters will be releasing in that time period. I'm sure you've all seen that this story will be advancing with new rockets (STS and a revitalized [REDACTED] family) and a new goal for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. These chapters will not be that significant, but will pave the way for a story on a much grander scale. Anyways, that's my update for now. Hope y'all are staying safe!

First heard about the game around 1.8, 1.9, then I finally bought it and started playing literally days after the 1.10 release.

Nope, but that jet's cockpit area is looking like an F-16 right now. Beautiful! Also, @Misguided Kerbal?

Hello everyone! Chapter 5 has been delayed to a Sunday release due to complications with a certain spaceplane that will be used in the coming chapters, detailed below. I have experienced issues with landing the Space Shuttle from a space trip, so I hope you all understand the final approach will not be displayed on any Project Astra chapter. The launch, mission in orbit, re-entry, and touchdown will be the only parts of an STS mission shown in photos. Hope you all understand! In other words, development on the coming chapters are going rapidly! Chapter 5 will focus more on a political problem that comes up for the Soviet Union, that temporarily delays (but not cancels) their upcoming missions. To my memory, only one or two missions total will be displayed in the chapter due to its large focus on the USSR thing. For Chapter 6, just a small hint. Well, it's not small. Sort of. Basically, from Chapter 6, NASA's main ride to space will be the Space Transportation System (STS), whose development has been accelerated thanks to stacks and stacks and stacks of government funding. Once more, hope everyone stays safe and thanks for reading!

Hey there! Just wondering whether the shuttle is compatible with Modular Launch Pad's shuttle launch tower, and is the shuttle compatible with MechJeb? Thanks!