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  1. http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/08/18/behind-scenes-at-worlds-first-spaceport-in-rural-new-mexico-desert/

    'In the deserts of the western United States, space tourism is becoming a reality as construction progresses on Spaceport America -- the world’s first purpose-built commercial space travel facility, 45 miles north of Las Cruces, N.M.'

    Space tourism would be fun in the game, we could get paid for 'successful' flights

    ..and sued for failures? :D

  2. I love the idea, but I was thinking:

    For the trash and sewage and whatnot the crew produces, have a rack of 8 or 16 or maybe even 32 'Trash-Rockets' that have the singular purpose of launching once they are filled. Its basically a small booster Estes Rocket duct-taped to a small cargo hold Hefty Garbage Bag without a nose cone, so it dissipates in the atmosphere upon entry. When full, its jettisoned from the station to prevent exhaust damage, and once its ~100 meters from the station, it points itself towards Kerbin (Kearth), and thrusts away. Can buy you time on the ground as your constructing the next rocket.

    Just my thoughts.

    ;P

    FTFY ;D

  3. based on the picture and the fact that i actually tried to make one of these not to long ago, no the thing just falls apart halfway up because of the game engine and things not physically attaching to each other.

    but i'll download it and see if this ones any different from the ones i've tried.

    yeah um i just tried it.. HELL NO IT DOESN'T FLY!!! it collapses on its self once you get it to the pad.. then its over 2 minutes of destruction before it all ends.

    if i can hit the space bar in time i'll try to at least get some images of it flying but i doubt it.

    yeah it doesn't fly period.. so heres some pictures of it exploding..

    http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/6968/ksp2011072709061745.png

    http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/5863/ksp2011072709062056.png

    Wow, you got all 3 Kermans to be happy too! k:P

  4. I was thinking about this game yesterday. In my more than 25 years of computer gaming (Intellivision FTW! ;D ), I think this is one of the few games I've played that didn't require you to shoot anyone, blow something up etc to have fun. Simcity is the only other one that comes to mind, and that got boring real quick if you didn't introduce tornados or some disaster. I wish my kids were old enough to play (oldest is 5), this game would be a hoot for middle school and high school kids to learn about rockets, physics etc. My wife even thought it was a cool idea, and her idea of a fun game is Majjong. :P I laugh just thinking about the Kermans and all of the crazy launch attempts. Good job! I can't wait to see what further refinements will bring.

  5. So that you can use the 3m Sunday Punch tanks like the Shuttle does? I see Orbiters, Spaceplanes, etc, but when I try to mount a liquid fueld rocket to one of the giant fuel tanks it doesnt work. I have to mount the command capsule on the 3m tank. I was wondering if a couple existed that allowed me to make a 1m liquid fueld rocket draw fuel from the giant tank, and then be able to ditch it like the shuttle does.

  6. Actually, I had to shrink and stretch the skin to fit the booster; the relevant portion of the texture is 512x308. I 'stretched' it by cutting out a strip without any text or pictures, then just using it as filler to space out the elements. Really, if I wanted to play with it more, I'd probably remove the Nutrition information, and just double up the face and the 'BOOST'.

    Enjoy!

    (P.S. - I'm also going to go put this over on the mods forum, with a link back to your original.)

    Ok, No way to PM you this file... I made it at 512x308 but when saving to png it jumped in size. You should be able to scale it easily.

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