Pipcard

Don't know what I named my rockets (or if I ever named them) in the demo, but my first rocket in 0.20 was called "Onion Stick Mk. 01" (the actual .craft was called KERTSUNE, after the payload)

All of them (Eeloo is not part of my ribbons because KASDA hasn't gone there)

They're not all Vocaloid-themed. Here's an explanation: KERTSUNE: Kerbalized version of Hatsune (Miku) [note: If you don't know who she is, click here. And Vocaloids are basically a kind of singing synthesizer program.] Songbird: Not really Vocaloid-themed, just music-themed in general Moon Princess: The Japanese lunar probe is nicknamed Kaguya, who is a Moon princess. Starlight: Taken from this Miku song (titled "space infrastructure") Wish: Literal translation of Nozomi, the Japanese Mars probe (which failed to enter Mars orbit) Dawn: Literal translation of Akatsuki, the Japanese Venus probe (failed to enter Venus orbit but will make another attempt in 2015) Mouhou Project: not Vocaloid-themed; a pun of Touhou Project (but I haven't played any games in the series and don't really plan to) Wanderer: Named after this track M/IKU: Obviously a direct backronym Electric Angel: Named after this song (but I prefer the trance remix; it's more fitting for an ion probe travelling through space) Reusable Prototype Vehicle: possibly based on JAXA's suborbital Reusable Vehicle Testing program Peregrine Falcon: Literal translation of Hayabusa, the Japanese asteroid sample return probe. There is also a song about it, but I prefer this version. World is Mine: it's a well-known Miku song. Snow Fairy: the song "Snow Fairy Story" (but "The 9th" is the one about Pluto) Emerald, Topaz, etc.: this doesn't really have to do with anything other than "jewels" (i.e. Jool) Kujita: Kerbalized version of Saki Fujita (her birthday was yesterday - October 19), voice sample provider of Hatsune Miku. Nebula: Named after my first favorite Miku song Futurelab/Futurebase: (Miku (ミク) sounds like a nanori reading of future, 未来, normally read as "mirai"[2]) Reusable Crew Vehicle: CV (Character Vocal) series by Crypton Future Media (Kerpton is a Kerbalized version), of which Miku is a part of. - RCV-01 "First Sound": what "Hatsune" literally translates to - RCV-02 "Mirrored Sound": see here - RCV-03 "Circulating Sound": see here Moon Rabbit: East Asian folklore Project DIVA: Hatsune Miku rhythm games (but I've never played one because I'd rather just listen to the songs instead of playing a rhythm game) Negi Star: green onion (although some people translate it as "leek" but I'm not sure because I do notice a difference between the two); NASA/Lockheed Martin has a supersonic aircraft concept which coincidentally looks like one. Mirai: See Futurelab/Futurebase. It's also a recreation of an add-on project I'm doing for the Orbiter simulator. Hope Base: the Japanese module on the ISS is known as Kibo (hope) Song Princess: literal translation of "utahime" (songstress/diva) Hikari: Dawn is the only probe to visit Ceres, and is also the name of a character from Pokémon; Hikari [light] is the Japanese name of the latter.

My space program is still on 0.21 (waiting for mods to update), and I prefer sandbox to career, so here's a pure rocket SSTO.

Mission 52 - one-Kerbal rocket SSTO Reusable Prototype Vehicle Type-02 Description: A single-stage-to-orbit vehicle capable of carrying one Kerbal into low Kerbin orbit and back. Mass at launch: 25545 kg Mission objective: Launch into low Kerbin orbit, then de-orbit and land near the space center. Crew: Newmin Kerman Click below to see more:

For the meantime, nosecones actually create more drag instead of doing what they're supposed to do (reduce drag).

In a spacecraft docked to a space station orbiting Kerbin.

KASDA is now in a separate blog! Mission 51 - experimental unmanned SSTO Reusable Prototype Vehicle Type-01 Description: A robotic vehicle designed to reach low Kerbin orbit without jettisoning parts (single stage to orbit) and return to the surface. It contains a toroidal aerospike engine for great efficiency in the atmosphere and in space. Mass at launch: 12002.5 kg Mission objective: Launch into low Kerbin orbit, then de-orbit and land near the space center. Click below to see more:

That pun was completely unintentional and I didn't even realize it until now.

The coolest looking and best animated part in the game.

Look at the bright side... at least the pad is lit up.

Landed on Eeloo for the first time (0.21)

They don't come from the forum, and they're called ribbons.

In the game, it's officially called "Sun", not "Kerbol", so I use "heliocentric".

You're welcome! I wish I had known how to resize parts when I started KASDA (the day I got KSP), so I could have 0.625 m solid rockets.

The content rating system for video games. eC - early childhood (3+) E - everyone (6+) E10+ - everyone (10+) T - teen (13+) M - mature (17+) AO - adults only (18+)

What about the reaction wheels? So... Probes before Kerbals to be more realistic? Or Kerbals before probes because it's called "Kerbal Space Program"?

I used to love Comic Sans a lot. At one time, I even replaced every font on my computer with it. But now I'm into Century Gothic. Very modern.

Closest: Mouhou Project 2, orbiting Moho Farthest: Wanderer-1, on solar escape trajectory

It's like a giant rug with wheels...

Creative use of the Modular Girder Adapter for the Propserabimus satellite.

I love the realistic exploration going on.

There used to be something here about the suborbital test flights that took place before the first mission. I wanted it to seem like a prequel, with version 0.20 and no fairings. But later I thought that it didn't look too good and so I deleted it. Sorry.

It looks like an alternate history in which an evolved Soyuz rocket takes Russians/Soviets (or their Kerbal equivalents) to the Moon (Mun)

KASDA is over 6 years old (I only focus on one mission at a time, even with Kerbal Alarm Clock). Sometimes, there are spacecraft which only go within the Kerbin system (hours or days). And then there are space probes that take almost a year to get to their target. There's also waiting for launch windows.