um3k

It's a game. You play it for fun. If you get tired of it, stop playing. There's nothing wrong with that.

I am just going to leave this here:

At first I was indifferent to female Kerbals, but Sirrobert, _Aramchek_, and sanoj688's arguments have swayed my opinion. I now strongly support the addition of female Kerbals, implemented similarly to the image in the OP. In addition, I find it interesting that some of the most vocal people in this thread are the ones who claim not to care about the subject matter. For reference, people who truly don't care about a thing generally do not attempt to win an argument about said thing.

Have you considered the possibility that your monitor is what needs adjusting?

Falling from space and landing on your head is often a "flight you can walk away from" for a Kerbal.

Just add some female names to the name generator.

In 0.23, you can use a Kerbal to transport data. So you could get the data out of the SSTO, recover the Kerbal, then send another Kerbal (or the same one again) using a capsule and perhaps a vehicle on the launch pad. But, yeah, what you suggest wouldn't be a bad feature. Then again, are you refueling your SSTO on the surface? If not, then you'll only be able to use it so many times, might as well recover and relaunch it, just call it "maintenance" to appease yourself. Ninja'd...