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Ohh I know that one. In my earlier landers I started adding two decouplers on the last stage just to make sure I didn\'t seperate everything.

it depends what you signed up to. If you read the T&Cs it states precisely what you can and can\'t do with software. if you don\'t agree then don\'t purchase it, refuse to give them your financial lifeblood. If you went to buy a car and the owner said 'Ok, when you purchase this car, the contract you sign will say that it has to be kept here and you can only drive it at designated locations/times' Would you buy it? (Like the Ferrarri FXX) You enter a contract willingly, if you don\'t like the terms of the contract then don\'t accept them. Contract law has been like that for centuries.

That was an awful, awful movie, don\'t waste your time if you\'ve not seen it. To make that much of an impact you\'d need the explosive force of 692 billion hiroshima bombs. Pretty sure nothing in KSP even scrapes the surface of that kind of power.

Mechjeb really isn\'t needed to find your normal/antinormal. When you get to Apoapsis read your prograde gimbal symbol to see which angle you\'re pointing at, then minus 90 degrees from that to give you the direction of your normal. Add 180 to that to find antinormal. If you find yourself at 100 degrees, your normal is 10 degrees, your antinormal is 190. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

Wow, a surprisingly simple orbit, I usually expect RL missions to involve two or three slingshots. I reckon I could set up a shot like that! Also, I was surprised Mercury\'s orbit is quite so eccentric (Then I remember it\'s close to 20% eccentricity and I\'m surprised I was surprised.)

I reckon I can do most of these challenges with the exception of the spaceplane ones (I haven\'t built a spaceplane which has remained airborne for more than 30 seconds, yet.) Challenge 3: Land on the Mun near the Arc or Munolith, take pictures Completed by the ARKLab mobile laboratory set up not just to take a couple of pictures but to conduct extensive research on the arch over a three-week period. You might notice that it\'s missing some legs, this is due to me not being happy with the first landing site and trying to move it again. Challenge 4: Land on Minmus, take pictures of your landing site Completed by the Khione I mission using the mk4 ALICE lander. This mission technically covered challenge 5 as well, but I didn\'t take more than one picture of one ice-lake so I\'ll have to back to the littlest moon. To be completed...

Is this the amount of thrust you\'d have to use? if so, what is the equation you used?

Even if it weren\'t, the Mun has a mass of 976,000 Teratonnes travelling at 542.5 m/s have you any idea how big the thrust would need to be to deorbit something that big?

My first space station sat on the launch pad, modules all linked up and ready to fly, stitting atop five 3m stage NovaPunch rockets. winglets, ASAS, mechjeb and RCS ready to control the unwieldly craft as it jerkingly flies into space. Except I forgot to attach the RCS pods properly, as \'launch\' is hit all six RCS tanks drop like bombs onto the rockets and launch pad, and the space station is now flying with several large storage modules hanging and swinging from loose struts, destabilising the rocket and smashing like conkers against the shell of the rocket, the top stage of which explodes, dropping a fully loaded space station onto the incoming rocket which explodes, destroying everything save one or two connecting modules which dropped and were destroyed seconds later.

A landing is just a crash in polite company. Well done on getting to Minmus!

Aww, the \'Probable Failure\' is such a lonely picture. Bio, I know the feeling of failed space station launches, most of my StarHabs fell apart on the launch pad, no matter how many struts and duct tape I used!

Sunrise for the crew of StarHab. I wanted to launch a bigger first space station but this will do to practice rendevous with.

Reminds me of the Belle and Sebastian song 'A Space Boy Dream' 'I dreamt I had to go to Mars. I’m always kidding on about going to mars in the day But faced with the reality of it, in a dream, I was terrified. And it wasn’t going to be like a moon trip There was three of us going, but we couldn’t all go on the same ship We had to go one at a time with a day between us. I had to go first, and it was the thought of passing through all that black space All the darkness with nothing in it, and then being the first one to land there, all alone... I knew it was supposed to be all dark around, with just a red surface, But what if I got there and it was light, all civilised and populated and stuff? So I made a plan. The other astronauts were going to be my dad and my sister and my dad would come first after me, So I decided when I landed I would just stay in my seat until he got there And then we could get out together and have a look around and see what sort of things were there. And when I woke up and I was lying in the darkness, I thought I had landed. And I just lay still for a while, waiting for my dad to get there too.'

Welcome on board! I\'m the opposite to you; I\'ve been to both moons a fair number of times but have yet to build a space station or successfully rendevous with anything in orbit.

Thomvis, Dumler and Philnie will spend three weeks in the ARKLab collecting measurements, running experiments and picking up samples before the Personnel Return Capsule heads home. (Unless the capsule doesn\'t have enough fuel for the return flight, in which case the whole lab will have to go which would be a shame.)

Apparently they\'re still sending craft up there! http://www.jpaerospace.com/2011_in_review.html Very cool

Presenting the ARKLab I, built for extensive research of the Mun arch Unfortunately Captain Thompvis was not happy with the landing site 'A kilometre walk to the arch?! I don\'t think so.' He grumbled. 'Captain, it\'s fine, I think I need to change my trousers after that landing in the first place!' Dr Dunler protested.'This is more than three tonnes of building you can\'t jus--' 'Nope, strap yourselves in, we\'re getting a bit closer!' One very bumpy landing and three broken legs later... 'There we are, lads! Now remember, don\'t stack anything on the port side! Race you to the arch!'

I don\'t see the point, unless it could provide enough of a shove to get you into the lower atmosphere you\'d need to use the rockets soon after taking off, anyway.

Lovely smooth landing. Where did you get those components?

So, I thought I\'d plan my first mission to the equatorial Mun arch and started by choosing the lander which had so succeessfully landed me on the methane lakes of Minmus, the Alice Mk IV We achieved orbit and headed for the Mun without a hitch and quickly located the arch from a nice 20k orbit, killed our lateral movement and set about landing. So far so good. We set down a few clicks from the mysterious Munar monument No problem, we\'ll just shoot up and curve back down. Problem solved! The next landing was closer, but still no cigar And that\'s when it all went wrong. Our brave crew hopped up again but this time when it landed the legs acted like a springboard and the Lander flipped head over and smashed into the Munar soil, destroying the flimsy appendages and leaving us with no fuel tipped on our side and still far from the arch, what would our brave kerbals do? Captain Milby knew We still have a tank of RCS! And thus the Munar Rotational Locomotion Machine was born! Shooting horizontally across the Munar surface in reverse, cycling through the RCS boosters to roll her in the direction we wanted. ...briefly. next time, guys. Bring a cart.

If it\'s capable of landing on the Mun it\'s easily capable of landing on Minmus, out of curiosity, how are you burning to reach Minmus and remember you can use RCS as a backup rocket if you run out of conventional fuel.

Well, the Earth is 10.63 times larger than Kerbin, its orbit is 11 times larger so to represent a \'Murtian\' orbit your asteroid should be at 20,721,737km You can check my maths if you want, I could have missed something. Using Mechjeb as a recording instrument would be fine. What I mean is that when you leave Kerbin\'s SOI for the second time and you begin to orbit the sun you should lower that Periapsis to 9,889,000km which represents half the distance you\'d need to go to get to a scaled Mars.

That would help but a more useful tool would be the ability to cop/paste sections. So you could simply copy everything below the capsule and paste it into a new rocket, if you wanted.

My very first thought on designing a Munar landing was 'Landing on the Mun; How Hard Can It Be?' Also: Is this not the thought that goes through every Top Gear fan\'s head as they strap that fiftieth booster to their rocket?

4/10 Hidden behind a spoiler sheet. Also, the same picture as avatar.