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Honestly, this right here is your biggest hurdle to getting a job at NASA. You would need to become a US citizen to work directly for the agency. Your best course to working with NASA may be through the ESA. However, this does not prevent you from working for one of the many contractor companies. There may be certain areas closed to you due to being a foreign national (After all, the difference between a rocket and a missile is where the guidance system points it.), but there are quite a few non-US citizens working at various contractors. Contractors are where the real work is done, anyways.

That covers a lot of jobs. Flight controllers in Mission Control, space suit designers, water chemists, propulsion engineers, computer programmers, electrical engineers, food preparation technicians, scuba divers, accountants, lawyers, secretaries, printers, model builders, mailmen, technical support, janitors, firemen, etc... There's 18,000+ people at Johnson Space Center, and all of them except for the astronauts are "The guy who is on earth making the travel possible to astronauts" in some way.

Very much this. What do you want to do at NASA? There's all sorts of jobs available, in just about any field. KSP won't help you in about 99% of them. For those jobs that it would help with, it's not going to help very much, but for some jobs, every little bit can make the difference between you and another candidate. What you're going to want to focus on is your education, first of all. Take the challenging classes and do well in them. Learn to explain things in a clear and concise way. Whatever field you choose, learn how it relates to NASA's goals. Get some work experience in the field if at all possible, and once you get to college, keep an eye open for internship opportunities at NASA. And if you can't handle that, there's still hope for a NASA career. There's plenty of folks at NASA that ain't no rocket surgeons. Like the ones that call you to write an email over the phone for them. Or ask when the meeting was, so they can figure out what days they showed up for work. Or say "I tried to hide things from my management, but it didn't work. I'm being transferred on Friday." Or... *wanders off to sit in the corner muttering about 1130 days of testing and they still don't know what their system is capable of or even have a consistent policy on how to use it* I'm going to go have a drink now, for reasons completely unrelated to this conversation.

John Cage's 4'33"

Three Sepratrons placed directly on the capsule is my standard LES.

Indeed. Your users are numerous, but here's only one of you. If Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan taught us nothing else, it taught us that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

I knew I had seen a system like that somewhere. Thanks for reminding me which game it was in.

My father was with the Marines in Vietnam in 1965. Most of his stories involve guard duty, Spam sandwiches, communal latrines, and griping that the NSA had better gear than the Marines.

So, that means that we would only know if the heat shield were to overheat not during reentry. Which makes the situation somewhat even more terrifying.

I'm using DRE here, but thanks for letting me know, I guess.

I wouldn't say purely. I use it as a rough guide for alignment, so I can watch it out of the corner of my eye and not have to watch the number closely. It also helps visualize how the rest of the alignment will be affected during a roll maneuver. I find it easier to work with the visualization, instead of trying to think about the numbers. I only pay close attention to the number when I am just about to dock and finalizing my alignment.

I will warn anyone that wants it that I am not a web programmer. This really was my first experience with any extensive web/php/database work, which was part of the reason for doing it in the first place. @Freshmeat and @Li0n: Here it is. There is a very brief readme included. https://www.dropbox.com/s/21vo293693q0sre/kspweb.zip?dl=0

You're three quarters of the way there! That looks good. It's not really necessary, since you have the number displayed, but I do like it as a quick check.

When I get home, I'll see what I can do about removing some of the cruft and packaging it up. It's php and mysql running on an old laptop, with absolutely no security or user friendliness built in.

If you're going to be modifying the graphics, have you considered adding the roll scale to more than just the top of the image? I personally added it on the other three sides, but having it go fully around the display would be nice, too.

First sails, now swords. Kerbal: Space Pirates?

That's not really how solar sails work, you know.

In addition to the mod, I use my own system to help keep track of things. Random numbers, plus rules on crew rotation, as well as flight assignment and position eligibility, promotions, and retirements all get tracked. I've been thinking about absorbing some of Final Frontier's awards into my system, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. Crew Member COL Jebediah CDR Bill CDR Bob COL Valentina LTC Megcia CPT Lagerline COL Nelmin COL Dowise 2LT Jedble Lead Scientist Genezon 1LT Seedock Intern Shepler ENS Dantrice MAJ Alice Geologist Rosan 2LT Harbrett LT Seanlong Researcher Mardi Researcher Gwendia Physicist Phoberta Intern Ferbart 2LT Gwenlyn MAJ Seandorf Biologist Melbur Group 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Flights Tests Passenger 5 0 0 6 0 0 5 0 1 5 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 Missions Flight Mission Status Vessel Class Position 1 SO-1 Complete Dart I Science Dart 1 PLT 2 SO-2 Complete Dart II Science Dart 1 PLT 3 SO-3 Complete Dart III Science Dart 2 PLT 4 SR-1 Complete Aeronomy Study I Sounding Rocket 1A 5 SR-1A Complete Aeronomy Study I.2 Sounding Rocket 1A.1 6 SR-2 Complete Aeronomy Study II Sounding Rocket 3A 7 SR-3 Complete Engineering Study II Sounding Rocket 3B 8 SR-4 Complete Materials Study II Sounding Rocket 3C 9 SR-5 Complete Meteorological Study II Sounding Rocket 3D 10 SR-6 Complete Goo Study II Sounding Rocket 3E 11 LKO-1 Complete Orbital One OC-1 PLT 12 LKO-2 Abort- Contingency Orbital Two OC-2 PLT 13 LKO-2A Complete Orbital Three OC-2A PLT 14 HKO-1 Abort- Contingency Soar One OC-3A PLT 15 HKO-1A Complete Soar Two OC-3A PLT 16 RT-1 Complete LJ-1 LJ 17 MuO-1 Complete Explorer 1 Mun Orbiter I CDR PLT 18 LKD-1A Abort- Contingency Romulus Orbiter-D CDR PLT 19 LKD-1B Abort- Contingency Remus Orbiter-D.A CDR PLT 20 LKD-2A Complete Frey Orbiter-D.A CDR PLT RTRN 21 LKD-2B Complete Freya Orbiter-D.A CDR RTRN PLT 22 MiO-1 Complete Explorer II Mun Orbiter A CDR PLT 23 MiL-1 Complete Lander One Minmus Lander A CDR PLT 24 MuO-2 Complete Explorer III Mun Orbiter A CDR PLT 25 MiO-2 Complete Explorer IV Mun Orbiter A CDR PLT 26 LKORS Launch Complete LKORS Station Core Module 27 RT-2 Complete LJ-2 CTV(P) 28 LKORS Crew Transport Complete CTV-1 CTV PASS CDR PASS PASS ENG PASS PLT 29 LKORS Expedition 1 Active LKORS Station Core Module CDR ENG SCI SCI 30 RT-3 Complete LJ-3 CTV-A CDR PLT ENG 31 MiL-2 Complete Lander Two Minmus Lander A CDR SCI 32 LKORS Construction 1 Complete LKORS Science Module Station Science Module 33 LKORS Experiment I Active LKORS Experiment I Experiment Carrier (Plant) 34 LKORS Crew Transport 2 Complete CTV-2 CTV-A CDR PLT ENG PASS PASS PASS PASS 35 LKORS Expedition 1A Active LKORS Station Core Module SCI SCI SCI SCI 36 LKORS Construction 2 Complete LKORS Power Mast Station Power Mast Name Jebediah Bill Bob Valentina Megcia Lagerline Nelmin Dowise Jedble Genezon Seedock Shepler Dantrice Alice Rosan Harbrett Seanlong Mardi Gwendia Phoberta Ferbart Gwenlyn Seandorf Melbur Flights Tests Passenger 5 0 0 6 0 0 5 0 1 5 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 Hire A Kerbal Design A New Class Order A New Vessel Plan A New Mission

Imagine this is taken from a slightly lower angle, and go to the end of the video, about 5:10:

Thanks for sharing that story. I agree, this mod does help bring the otherwise rather generic characters to life. This is why I always try to rotate my crews.

Stealth does not mean cloaking device, just harder to find than usual. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_F-117A_shootdown

What's wrong with that?

There are several communications loops in the FCR, dedicated to certain areas. The only radio is from CAPCOM to the flight. I've rarely seen loops beyond CAPCOM and PAO in the wild.

I see. Thanks for the info. It both answers and doesn't answer my question. So there's achievements because Sony says there have to be. But still, why? I just don't get it. Is it some silly thing to hook players into spending more time on the games because of the psychological "must get another reward" effect? What does Sony get out of decreeing something to keep players playing the same game? I also don't get the draw for players to have achievements in a game. I don't see how it adds much of anything to it.

Why?