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Thanks for the correction! All of Mars still lies below the Armstrong limit though, so without a suit on your blood will boil.

I am not sure how you figure this, considering we cannot breath on the summit of Mt. Everest, which has a higher atmospheric pressure than anywhere on Mar's surface, including the lowest observable impact craters. Mars average - 0.6 kilo-pascals (0.087 psi) Hellas Planitia bottom - 1.16 kilo-pascals (0.168 psi) Lowest altitude on Mars. Armstrong limit - 6.25 kilo-pascals (0.906 psi) Point at which water boils at the normal temperature of the human body: 37 °C (98.6 °F) Mount Everest summit - 33.7 kilo-pascals (4.89 psi) Also to put this in even more perspective CO2 is a heavier gas than O2. So the only way we can ever live on Mars will be within closed environments (Biospheres), Unless we find a way to generate an Magnetosphere around Mars (Or some other method) to protect the atmosphere from being torn away by the Sun's radiation.

Keep going until you get it to 2.5+ km we all want to know what will happen, and yes we all have our assumptions! but seriously we want to know!

It used to be Duna for me, but the last update made Duna look like crap. So now just the whole Jool system.

It would have application in the case of holding massive life support or other facilities, something big enough that it would have a massive Dv cost to transfer. So it is cheaper to use small vehicles to simply transfer people on and off. Small vehicles that might not have all the life support and accommodations for the long journey.

Fantastic video, not sure if it has been posted before but if you have not seen this it is pretty awe inspiring!

Very possible, aero break.

Some pretty awesome research being done! I always like to support what could be our future is space exploration and travel. The University of Alabama in Huntsville is conducting pulsed fusion propulsion research with the Charger-1 device. The Charger-1 is a ~500 kJ pulsed power facility capable of 2 MA discharges at 3 TW of instantaneous power. For comparison, the electrical power in the entire global grid is 15 TW. And they have a crowd fund! http://www.rockethub.com/projects/27142-support-fusion-propulsion-research

How do you know we are alone...

http://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/momentous-day-for-space-travel Awesome video there, and interesting info. http://youtu.be/VXbbEGK9oMI

Spaceplanes are perfect how they are, you just need to learn more.

You all assume they are not used... NASA may be open about everything they do, but the government launches plenty of stuff no one knows about

Put RCS thrusters facing upwards, just before you touch down turn them on and burn forcing yourself downwards. This will keep you firmly planted on low grav surfaces.

Crap I missed one of the beeps, thought I had removed all the extra sounds. Oh well You can, but it is not nearly as easy to get the ship into orbit as the new launcher I made. It has the power, just not the stability.

Gave me a good laugh

A planet where even at the lowest possible level of orbit, the planet still spins faster than you travel around it. Possibly even two rotations per your orbital completion.

lv-426 That is all...

Poop, I was very afraid this was the case. I really started to look into this after designing my latest 10T lifter, and built it 2 stacks high and 5 in diameter. Works beautifully. Well perhaps in the U-verse that this game is set in aerodynamics work in different ways...

So I have been doing some tests and messing around a good bit. However I have not been able to figure this out. Are there any aerodynamics on parts other than wing pieces? I am wondering because currently it seems pointless to add aerodynamic nose cones and the like to any of my rockets. It is just adding useless extra weight for the sake of making things look good. So take a standard rocket with a single stack and single engine. Is it beneficial to put a nose cone on top? Or is it just dead weight?

Here is an image of it with it's custom luncher . This launcher should be great for other vehicles weighing under 12T. Can go anywhere in the system.

I will just leave this here. You can easily swap the 50 thruster out for the better jet and it works just as well. http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/showthread.php/22001-Narvi-Deployable-Fighter-ship

Here is the fighter with it's custom launcher. Makes it easy to go anywhere in the system. https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BwMUtr7Vb5WNTlprUF9EMjIxZmM