Endeavour

Do you know how many incidents each one had? Counting fatalities is a bit skewed when the crafts have different crew sizes.

So basically the government should start businesses to employ all unemployed people? How does this work in the current system? You say they could start something like a steel mill. How could a regular, non-government funded steel mill compete with this government funded steel mill? It would only cause more problems, as each new government funded company competes with the regular ones, putting them out of business, creating more unemployment, which means more government companies. Eventually everyone works for the government.

Everything feels really different since the forums crashed for those few days. I feel like we used to get lots of Dev blogs and things, but those stopped.

Ever since I knew what an Aerospace Engineer was I had wanted to be one, so as soon as I saw this game I knew I had to have it. The biggest thing KSP gave me was a reason to learn about the physics of spaceflight. Now, I can't watch a movie or play a game about space without thinking about how they got spaceflight wrong.

How many engines can the Falcon 9 lose before failing?

I can't think of anything bad about this update, and I've never had problems with it. Just get into orbit and look at Kerbin against the background. Compare that view to the view from 0.16. It is shockingly beautiful now.

Great work! I would love some tutorials as you mentioned earlier.

It doesnt' matter if you use a space plane or rocket, if you are in the atmosphere you will only have up to 4x warp. If you hold "Alt" and use the comma key, you can use physical warp anywhere. It is really useful for long burns.

I like it. I feel like it is the only thing that keeps me from cheating for infinite fuel

I tried dwarf fortress, and I am willing to admit it was too difficult for me. Everything was laid out well, there was just too much for me. If I had more time to play, I might be able to learn it, but I don't.

I've never needed to rendezvous in Kerbol orbit (thank God), but if I was going to, I would make sure the rescue ship had plenty of fuel to use in Kerbol orbit. Then just get into a lower or higher orbit than the stranded ship and timewarp. I would do some math to get things close, then EVA across. But you really don't need to do math. Just wait until they are close and match the orbits. Good luck.

Me too. If they had the budget we give our military, we could probably do this tomorrow.

Mechjeb and carts are my favorite mods. I've used KW Rocketry, and it was really nice. ISA Mapsat is really cool too. For space stations, the only ones I've used are BACE and Kosmos, but you need to wait for Kosmos to be released again.

I hope so, otherwise they would be completely useless.

RCS can get you really far if you use it as an engine. But if you use it to control your ship's direction, I agree it is brutal.

So are the adapters coming? Or was it a mod?

If the US goes back to the moon, it is going to be for an economic or military purpose. They have no other reason to go back. China, on the other hand, still needs to put their flag up there. So I predict it will be China that goes to the Moon next.

Does Kerbol rotate? You would need to know how fast it spins to determine the altitude. If you meant Kerbin, then it's 2870km at 1008.9m/s

Edit: Beaten to it. Check out the thread called Orbital Mechanics 101 in the How-To section if you still are confused.

Take the part files from the mod and replace the ones you have. Don't delete the parts, just the one file. Then put the plug in in the plugin folder

I get the most enjoyment out of achieving what I set out to accomplish. Building and piloting just get me there. So I guess both

Carts, mechjeb, empty pods, Kosmos VA, fuel consumption fix, and others I can't remember.

I don't know if mechjeb can do it, but I know there is a spreadsheet somewhere on here that can be used to find it.

Try not to make your rockets too big. One stage to get out of the thick atmosphere, the second stage to put you into orbit, and then transfer you to the Mun. The last stage to land and come home.

We need manned space flight because otherwise space flight will die off. Ever notice how the current robotic missions don't even make the news? People don't care about robots.