dogon11

Skeptical face... ACTIVATE!

You beat me to it. Good to see that we\'ll have more people in the RP. Things are complicated currently, there\'s a pandemic going around, the space race has pretty much been won before the Mun, and there\'s a cold war that keeps edging towards hot.

Walk up the Mun arch.

My right leg. Welp, you\'re loveed.

Maybe just a little too big, khyron? I built a Delta-IV heavy rocket, my most powerful ever, and it\'s still not that big.

1. Struts go away when the two pieces that it\'s connected to separate. 2. How\'d you figure out the explosive charges for the payload fairing?

It\'s one of two.

That is the Mun Arch. Congrats on finding it.

Part of my second KSC levitate as well, both before and after I added the modded settings.cfg to get faster game.

Welcome, hope you have fun. Anyways, the main problem with the floppy stage is probably that it just isn\'t wide enough. The way I solve this is by attaching the two stages with struts. This solidifies the connection, and should fix your problem.

Craft: MIEV-2 Lunar Lander with Soteria transit stage mounted atop a SLS-Heavy configuration launch vehicle. Mission: Land three kerbals on the Mun, return them with rock samples and photographs, and to only leave experiments, and not parts of the vessel (O-2L tests did plenty of that) Crew: Bill, Jebediah, and Bob Kerman Launch Date: 7/5/2012 Notes: Launch weather was clear, minimal light pollution, clouds on the horizon, winds of 3 miles per hour at launch pad blowing north-west. Vehicle left the pad with three delays, one at T- 1:20:05 when a fuel line clogged, holding launch for approximately thirty minutes. Second delay was at T- 32:57 when the parachute electrics test showed the deployment altimeter off by 300 meters, enough to cause crew fatalities, delay lasted approximately five minutes. Final delay occurred during T- 4:00 pause, when one atmospheric guidance fin froze in the full-port position, delay lasted one hour. Countdown resumed at 2:11 AM UTC, and the rocket blasted away from the pad at 2:15 AM UTC, 1 hour and 35 minutes behind schedule. The first pair of SRBs, the smaller pair, ejected at 22,000 meters, and the second pair at 24,000 meters. First stage finished gravity turn at 54,000 meters. First stage burned out and ejected at 67,000 meters, second stage activated. Second stage burned out with apogee at 127,000 meters, perigee at 48,700 meters. Soteria transit stage engaged, apogee boosted to 318,000 meters. Soteria shutdown after apogee boost. Transit stage re-ignited at apogee, circularization burn completed. Fuel valve #3 froze, refused to shut. Apogee boosted to geostationary orbit altitude. To take advantage of the situation, mission control gave TLI green light, Soteria fuel valves re-opened, TLI burn completed. Valve #3 had warmed up, and the stage was shutdown again. The vessel completed one orbit before being captured in the lunar SOI. Landing site was 1,549 miles off from original site due to launch delay and Soteria valve #3 temporary failure. Braking burn occured ten minutes after vehicle passed perilune, vessel began descent to current day-side. Braking burn occured at 150,000 meters to straighten vehicle descent. Braking burn occured at 30,000 meters to slow vessel for landing engine takeover. Soteria stage ejected, impacted Mun three minutes later. Landing engine activated, lander leg locking pins disengaged via pyrotechnics. Legs swung down, re-locked by spring-loaded pins. Vessel landed with half-fuel remaining. Odd lunar geography photographed, experiments set up, flag planted, solar station deployed. Crew stayed on the Mun for three days, performing over 30 hours of EVA on the surface. Vessel boosted off surface via RCS thrusters, main engine re-ignited. Fuel ran out approximately five minutes later, RCS thrusters took over lunar escape burn. Trajectory adjusted for free-descent to ocean approximately 1/3 around the world to the east of KSC. Lunar lander ejected at 95,000 meters, capsule righted for optimal heat-shield placement. Capsule reentered at 3,500 m/s. Parachutes deployed at 5,000 meters. Drogue ejected and main chutes deployed at 500 meters. Vessel splashed down at 7.8 m/s five minutes later. Photographs and lunar samples recovered. Flight Duration: 4 days, 20 hours, 53 minutes, 43 seconds. Mission Outcome: Complete Success in all fields. Photography of launch, lander site, and parachute deployment attached.

One side of one of the arches floats in the air. I\'m not sure about the other. (Learned by pictures taken by MIEV-2 mission)

Everyone is missing a very important rule. YOU NEED A PICTURE OF THE CREW, ALIVE, ON THE GROUND, AFTER THE FLIGHT. Thank you.

Oh. Shoot... Simple, orbit real low to the sun.

Yes. It\'s called a geostationary orbit.

Whoops, sorry about everything guys. First, my power went out for three days, came back yesterday. Then my laptop stopped working properly, and I use it for KSP. I\'m on the family desktop (which is the same speed as my laptop...) and I\'ll get around to this once my laptop starts working properly. Thanks for your patience.

I\'d like to schedule a flight to the Lake Kostok base. My aircraft is my new fighter jet, and I will bring extra fuel in droptanks, so if I get lucky, I might be able to return to the KSC. It\'ll mainly be base security. I figure I\'ll be waiting for two weeks, which will give me plenty of time to work on my laptop troubles. The fighter is really cool, it\'s sorta like an F-15, but it does Mach 2.8 easily.

'But daaaaaaaaaad...' 'I DON\'T CARE! You go first! 'DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD!!!'

I was off by 500 meters, and two degrees inclination.

It\'s because I\'ve landed one before, but have never attempted a SeaLaunch.

Wow, taking much longer than expected...

Okay. Then I\'ll probably end up picking Kosmos when I figure out what I want to do.

It is. You just didn\'t do it right.