MacTheOldFox

I use full ****** kerbals as test pilots Brave and dumb? You get to be the first!

I missed my retrograde burn window to establish an orbit on the mun during the early days of my Mun program. Bob and his ship were slingshotted into an elliptical solar orbit. There he stayed for over a year until I restarted my campaign for an update. Legend has it his poltergeist still roams the region of space between Kerbin and Duna, in the form we all know as... THE KRAKEN! I'm sorry for creating the Kraken everyone....

My proudest moment? Returning Bill Kerman from the depths of space. He still has shivers from that cooold coold cooold year.

A question about rescues... So I sent an apollo style mission (orbiter module and lander module) to the Mun... The lander impacted and killed all 2 crew with it, leaving one kerbal left on the orbiter... However the orbiter was never designed to return to kerbin A) by itself and with just it's own fuel. The mission called for a full burn of it's remaining fuel then the remaining fuel on the lander to adjust the trajectory for re-entry. Without that extra fuel I did not even think I could return to kerbin. I did successfully return him home on a one off lucky burn. Would this qualify as a rescue? Such as you described apollo 13's "rescue" EDIT: You haven't earned it unless you killed someone trying to do it!

You can tell someone is lying on their ribbons when you don't see any lost kerbals... Especially on Kerbin and the Mun LOL I still technically haven't given up on Bill... He's still floating around the Sun..... Let that be a reminder to all of you... Don't light a cigarette mid burn... you will send your spaceship and all the hopes, cares, dreams, budget, and souls with it into the universe....

Are there pilots willing to fly for engineers? I've designed a few things that I know can reach orbit, but I'm garbage at getting things in orbit and docking.