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Some more posts have been removed. Keep it on-topic, guys. The subject of this thread is a mod. Not whether modders are sufficiently appreciated.

Play the game or don't play the game. Nobody enjoys these arguments.

Oh, jeez. I even left the 1/2 coefficient out of the kinetic energy equation. Nothing like being publicly stupid to get one's day off to a great start. I knew about it! Honest! Thanks, Gaarst.

Pictures of the craft are often enough to diagnose problems. How about some of those?

Since what you want to do can only be done with mods, your question has been moved to the modding subforum. Someone will be along presently with recommendations.

Kinetic energy is the mass times the velocity squared. That doesn't mean anything in the system being examined moves at the velocity squared, or twice the velocity, or anything of that sort. The velocity is just a term which comes up twice in the math. What I've always wondered is, does Einstein's equation merely represent the maximal case of the kinetic energy equation? Since the speed of light is as fast as anything can go, nothing could have more energy than its mass multiplied by the maximum velocity squared. I suspect that's far too simple and I'm mistaken, but what the heck, it doesn't hurt to ask, right?

This is unfortunate, but you should not expect a fix for an obsolete version of the game. But we'll move this thread over to support in the hope that someone has workarounds to suggest.

What do you think of this design I've been using for several years? Here's the craft file I use to launch it to orbit, where a mothership transports it to Duna. https://kerbalx.com/Vanamonde/V27-Atmoranger

Overlapping threads have been merged.

Please keep the discussion on-topic, folks. Don't make readers work so hard to follow the story.

Additional reasons the capsules were not re-used: This was the first (and so far only) time a crewed ship had gone as far as lunar orbit. The capsules would have been studied to see how they responded to radiation and micrometeorites. The craft were designed and built over a period of years, so I believe the last one was already made before the first one came back. The cost of the capsule, even if fully recovered, would only have been a tiny fraction of building a new rocket, since the rest of the ship was discarded during the flight. It would not have been much of a savings.