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I\'ll sign up for a mun-orbiting space station, so that any who is going to make a base can stop for fuel.

CRAFT: O-1 Nighthawk MISSION: Flight Profile Testing CREW: N/A LAUNCH DATE: 6/11/2012 NOTES: Flight succeeded in majority of ways imaginable. First stage dropped [REDACTED] once they run out of fuel, and continued to an altitude of [REDACTED]. Second stage followed suit, but with less fuel. Third stage achieved orbit of [REDACTED] meters, and orbited for approximately ten hours. De-orbit burn occurred above the city of [REDACTED], and the vacuum engines were ejected, leaving the single atmospheric engine. Re-entry went normal, with speed in excess of 2,000 m/s. Within five miles of the landing zone at [REDACTED], craft lost control due to [REDACTED]. No loss of life occurred in resulting crash. Debris located at [REDACTED]. FLIGHT DURATION: Approx. 10 hours MISSION OUTCOME: Failure. A-1 attack craft dispatched for destruction of debris.

Definitely will begin doing this.

It has a fully working live support system that supports long and deep space travel (if you have power ). Dark sides of Kerbin and the Mun are no problem. It has no docking ports or an escape pod. The MK-I is just a prototype to see if it would make it into orbit. Apparently the designers where not too confident in their work and decided it would be cheaper to leave it out for now. The crew is pretty much doomed to stay up there if they want to live. It is pretty though! Unfortunantely, that orbit is not circular.

Chapter 6- Microgravity He pulled his helmet back on, and locked it again. Justin was scheduled to make a twenty minute EVA around the craft to check the exterior and systems. He vented the atmosphere inside the capsule as he pressurized the suit, and reached for the capsule handle. The shiny red handle had never been used before, and Justin hoped that they had remembered to lubricate the gears inside the door. He tugged once, twice, three times and it finally let go. A gentle shove flung it wide open. Justin fastened himself to the EVA tether located inside the doorway. He climbed out and floated freely ten feet from the capsule, staring out at the deep, dark vastness of space. The sun glinted off his visor, and reflected to create small light shows on the dark side of the capsule. He grabbed the tether and worked his way hand over hand back to the capsule, where he began climbing around the exterior using the ladders on the exterior. The solar panels built into the nose of the craft were just fine, albeit a tad bit dusty. Justin blew on them, only to remember he was wearing his helmet. Instead, he wiped it off using his elbow. The parachute was OK, and as he floated around the check the heat shield, he checked the external cameras. They were fine and recording. The heat shield was all right, albeit a bit... pre-used. Justin assumed that this was fine, and that it was an experiment with re-using old parts. The whole capsule checked out fine, so he climbed back inside, and shut the door. Then, he removed the EVA tether, which simply provided something to hold on to, and pressurized the cabin again. He removed his helmet, and strapped into the chair for a nice, short, nap.

Only if someone says they didn\'t like it does someone not like it.

Albany

I say muhn.

Pie pie pie pie pie eip eip eip eip eip? Next person won\'t post! MWUAAHAHAHA!

I want you doing it, but if you don\'t, I\'ll do it!

How do you switch modes?

I don\'t need mods for something large, unwieldy, and that likes to flip and stall at every given moment.

Here is my submission into Longest Glider Distance: Name: Eagle Mk1 Record: Distance via Glider Statistic: 3,804,449 meters in total. Version: 0.15.2 Mods Used: N/A Screenshots are attachments since imgur won\'t work... Also, the trip did go around the entire world. I started it 6/9/2012 at 5pm and finished 6/10/2012 at approx. 10 am. I left it to glide overnight while I slept, and everything went fine. Sorry I didn\'t get any pictures in flight, but I assure you that there were no 'magic turbines'. However, I glided out away from KSC for a third of the ocean\'s distance, pulled up to twenty degrees, climbed up to 6000 meters, and stayed there until landing (which I botched because I forgot to go to warp X1).

Chapter 5- Blue And Green Marble Justin looked out the window, and saw the KSC rush away. Civilization followed it. All he could see was blue sky and the sunrise. The altimeter passed 15,000 meters. Two red lights came on on the control panel, showing that the first stage was empty. Then, the engines went out, and Justin ejected the first stage. The second stage came on automatically, but slowly throttled up to avoid destroying the re-usable first stage. The craft tipped twenty degrees towards the horizon. There was a streak of smoke surrounding the pod for a split second, and then there was nothing. The engine seemed quieter. He couldn\'t see any smoke. Justin glanced up at the altimeter again, and it read 80,000 meters. He was in space! The crew on the ground radioed in. 'Justin, you\'re gonna need to burn the engines at full throttle in forty-five seconds, copy?' Justin pressed the A/C button, to begin heating the craft. 'Yessir, I copy.' He stared out the pod\'s windows, checking the hull from what he could see. Nothing was venting, so he grabbed the DSLR sitting under his chair, and snapped a few pictures. The ground crew came on again. 'Burn the engines in fifteen seconds.' Justin scrambled to his chair in the near zero-G, buckled in, flipped up the throttle cover, and put his hand on the control. 'Full burn in five.' He tightened his grip, and pressed the lock release button on the side. 'Burn!' the ground crew shouted. Justin rammed the throttle full forward, and the ship lurched away as the RCS struggled to keep it on path. 'Cut in five... mark!' the ground crew shouted again. He pulled the throttle back gently, and released the lock button. 'You have orbit at 150,000 meters!' the ground crew said. Justin gulped again, shook his own hand, and grabbed the bag of water to his right. He took the biggest drink imaginable, and unbuckled himself.

I\'d fix it right now, but I\'m currently attempting to glide around the entirety of Kerbin\'s equator. I\'ll be done in approx. 20 hours.

I saw Prometheus... and left the game running. Two hours later, I was across the ocean, and two thousand meters higher than before I left. Also, I was doing an extra 20 m/s, and was still pointing up at twenty degrees.

Play CoD BlackOps, or play BF3?

Thank you so much, kind sir. That means a lot to me.

Four hours after glider took off, still gaining altitude. And no, no magic turbines. I\'m up to 5000 meters and 50 m/s. What is going on? At this rate, I\'ll glide around the world (granted, I\'ll be done in another twenty hours).

Chapter 4- On A Pillar Of Fire The countdown ticked down to T- 2:00:00. Justin gulped. The auto-systems check light flickered into a green hue around the cabin. He flicked the safety dust cover off of the flight controls, and redid the auto-systems check, for a double check. T- 1:00:00 and it came back, green. The radio chatter through the headset was becoming annoying, but there was no mute control. T- 0:30:00 and the two-way fuel lines swung away from the craft. Small pieces of ice begun to fall away. T- 10 seconds, and the guidance systems whirred into life, as their lights flicked green. Fuel gauges started registering. Engine temperature readouts were bathed in yellow light as the back lights warmed up. T -5 seconds, and the electric whine of the control surfaces on the fins resonated throughout the capsule. Water trickled down the viewports. T -3 seconds and the engines roared into life. Smoke drifted up towards the capsule menacingly. The temperature readouts moved into the optimal range. T -2 seconds and the clamps holding down the craft began to groan. The whole rocket began to rock back and forth from the force of the engines. T -1 second, and the clamps blew away. T -0 and the rocket finally left the pad. The tower was shrinking away into the bottom-view cameras. The throttle went up to full, and the rocket shuddered. He was off.

Yeah, I\'m personally one for description but keeping it brief. Notice how each 'chapter' is a paragraph or two? It\'s still a work in progress, also. Thanks!

Built my glider, flew out till I reached 5 meters, pulled up another five degrees, went back up to 500 meters... still gliding 40 minutes after liftoff.

Walk on the moon.

I will submit my work in progress, 'A Dream, A Wish, A Hope'. http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/index.php?topic=14108.0

Ydoow wins.