Halsfury

I'm not talking about bringing back the end flight button, I'm talking about an all new button in the escape menu called the "Recover Vehicle" Button, which does just that, recover stuff that's lying around Kerbin, not in space :-P

Nice In case you were wondering the parachute is the Mk16 Stock chute which I flipped upside down and clipped inside the top of the capsule, I did it that way so that the parachute would fit under the launch escape system:) Edit: Also I designed it so that the Launch escape tower was jettison able whenever you like during the second stage burn. After the 2 stage is lit you can just press space once and it will get rid of the launch escape system I'm pretty old school about it so I don't use the action groups for anything more then saving the crew and launch preparation Also I use action group 1 instead of abort because usually I find that I need a "hair trigger" abort system cause usually by the time I've done the regular abort sequence the Kerbals are already dead

My idea is simply that since now you have this new end flight setup I suggest that when your capsule splashes down an option to recover the capsule should become available in the pause menu. This would save time since now I have to go over to the tracking station to pick up my landed capsules and spaceplanes, something which is a tad boring and tedious considering that now I have to do the following steps to get rid of a landed craft: 1)exit the craft and go back to KSC loading... loading loading... 2)enter the tracking station loading loading... loading... 3)cycle through to find the craft 4)click recover craft 5) retrace my steps and get to the VAB to plan the next mission If you could just give me the option up front to get rid of a craft which is landed on kerbin in the pause/escape menu it would speed things up considerably Thanks for considering

Thanks Mulbin, I haven't had so much trouble with the Atlas since I'm working at a different scale I can lift the Agena which in my rendition is pretty much a stick-o-boom with some basic flight systems It just doesn't look very good, it lacks sophistication and as a result it's uninteresting. But then again it was the USA's first manned spaceflight system. Maybe I'll go on to make a Saturn V for laptop users like myself, while trying not to sacrifice the aesthetics of the Munbug but right now I'm building a stock SKYLON In fact my efforts are all over the map:) so I'm maybe not so productive presently

Thanks Unfortunately OKB-1 couldn't muster an American Rockets page (mainly because I don't have the time to make up another rocket company) Since there seems to be an interest, I'll post the Atlas Agena the second I can make the booster section a bit more convincing (Currently the 1.5 stage booster falls off in 4 separate parts 2 shrouds and 2 LVT-30 engines) It's pretty successful considering that it can get to orbit under the power of the sustainer engine which is then de-orbited, I personally thought I was doomed since I couldn't replicate the unique pressurized hull of the real Atlas, which would crumple if it wasn't constantly pressurized with helium or fuel Might as well post mercury too

Oh God that is way worse than I thought, how ignorant, So they essentially pulled a Kerbal manoeuvre and forgot the equivalent to landing legs. Without a way to relieve any temperature driven pressure changes the leakage would be high at best and at worst it could cause windows to blow out etc. And importing dirt is just wasteful, especially since it would be preferable to simply choose the most fertile soil possible and just one type of ecosystem instead of having a desert (a drag on O2 production) in one corner and a rainforest in another. in short Quackery! People always reference the biosphere project as a what not to do, but nobody ever really goes into depth about the ridiculous stuff which they did

Hmm what this boils down to is that we can't replicate a self sustaining environment by ourselves, even resorting to plants and algae there is no way to pack sufficient biomass into a spacecraft. In fact about 30 years ago somebody tried to make a self sustaining living environment and put people into it to test it's feasibility and it was a disaster, even though it was a very big hermetically sealed complex in the desert, filled to the brim with plants, 6-12 people could not make it work for them and the project was forced to close down (somebody help me remember what this project was called) EDIT: I'm thinking of the Biosphere Project, which was a closed loop system imitating the earth, unfortunately even at it's massive size, oxygen levels declined steadily down to 14% causing medical difficulties which forced the scientists working on the project to pump oxygen into the Biosphere, making the project scientifically useless. It reminds me of a Top Gear episode where Jeremy Clarkson tried to clean a car's exhaust by hooking up a greenhouse trailer to it and extending the exhaust pipe into the greenhouse trailer. Not only was this effort disastrous since wind buffeting destroyed the greenhouse, Richard Hammond pointed out that in order to properly clean up the car's emissions he would need several greenhouse trailers stretching up to 2 miles in length! Fitting oxygen scrubbers was no help either since is was discovered that you would need to replace the filter once every few minutes if it was going to properly scrub out the CO2 This is an extreme example since cars create far more waste gasses than a human does by breathing, It is a testament to the sheer size of the earth that we would need trillions of cars to overpower photosynthesis however.

The easiest way to destroy the planet is politics, it is proven to be 100% reliable and effective. It's far cheaper than ray guns in fact it creates a net profit which can be reinvested in further destruction:sticktongue:

In fact Photosynthesis is pathetically inefficient, it is really 3% efficiency or so It's a complex story to do with the Kreb's cycle but if photosynthesis were an efficient means of getting energy plants would walk around, talk and have complex brains, the only thing which stops them from so doing (in this universe) is that they can't waste the energy on something as complex as a brain or legs because they cannot get enough energy to evolve in that direction

That makes sense thinking about it. Since most stars emit light across the same spectrum would that mean that supposing the existence of plants in another star system, they would most likely be green?

Gemini Titan II http://www./download/1euq42f3njcknl0/Gemini_Titan_II.craft

Chalk it up to playability kerbals don't have ejection seats yet like the real Gemini

My latest invention, a Gemini Titan II to rival the FASA Gemini mod. Released in preparation for possible release of OKB-1's new page devoted to American Rockets. I won't go into too much detail about the craft, the Gemini right now is lacking an Agena Docking target but it's coming soon along with Mercury Redstone and Mercury Atlas Launch Escape Sequence: Action Groups 1,2,3 Flight Preparation: Action Group 5 Craft File: http://www./download/1euq42f3njcknl0/Gemini_Titan_II.craft

Sorry about that giggleplex Note to Self: Show AND Tell works I know that you said it first but I had to go find the Nova and show everyone Sorry I stole it though Question: What shall we launch with the Nova? Saturn V kerbalized is perfect for mun/ minmus Maybe it's a 1 launch station lifter? maybe mun base parts. obviously it will be used for Interplanetary manned missions but I am having problems thinking just what I'd put up in it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_(rocket) This is the Nova Rocket designed for even heavier lifting than the Saturn V I supposed that since it is a Saturn Series booster it should be the Saturn VIII EDIT: also I am very interested in the lander It looks like I could really use it since my previous lander doesn't work in KSP because of clipping near the exit hatch, in .20 you can't get the little buggers to EVA

I'll grant that the wright flyer could be considered to be not a big deal in comparison to Apollo but it was a necessary step, if only in terms of advances in propellant and engines, without lightweight engine construction in 1903 the Saturn V F1 main rocket would have been impossible due to low TWR if you tried to make a rocket in the 19th century which was anything like a modern space capable rocket the TWR would be incredibly low due to everything being built with cast iron and steel like a steam engine, that's why Jules Verne decided that the best way people of his era could launch into space was in a giant blackpowder cannon, (that way at least you don't have to carry the uselessly heavy engine with you) About Korolev dying that in itself blew a lot of confidence for the Soviets out the window true, which was not entirely a bad thing. Back to the original topic though, going to Mars right now is certainly inadvisable, and the ethical implications of leaving people in the vast black desert which we know our local space to be and then dumping them on a red rock many millions of miles away (which just happens to be a mini desert in the much, much bigger desert of the universe) And then what is the profit for the company? is it going to be reality TV? I hope to god not, the final frontier won't be a safe place to be an idiot on survivor for many millennia yet. (by the way I looked at some of the 78,000 applicants for mars one and I am not sure any of them have the stuff to survive long term anywhere outside their basement) Perhaps it's an unnecessarily inflammatory statement to say that they are planning to run reality TV from mars, (somehow I don't think that anybody would stand for that) nevertheless, leave space to the pros and don't cobble together a 4 person team from 78,000 basement dwellers to go to anywhere but the mini mart

Maybe there is a good reason why nobody has left LEO since the space race, it's all good and fine to go to the moon but what does going there teach you? It taught the world that Deep and Cis-Lunar space is not to be treated lightly, and is in fact the largest/worst desert that man has ever traversed and secondly it showed that even though we could go to the moon at the drop of a hat with our current technology doing so hardly constitutes a reasonable goal for a spacefaring people. In short ask anybody at NASA, or Korolev or any major centre for space exploration and they will tell you "I would rather see 100 stations in LEO doing work which we can cash in on in future than 1 station on Mars" The reason for this is that both LEO and Mars' surface are deserts, like the Sahara with extras like zero g and food out of plastic tubes, so the question is "Why terraform Mars when Low Earth Orbit is closer, pretty much the same in terms of challenges and less expensive by a thousandfold?"

I don't think that zilch is a good way to describe the state of rocketry in 1961 in the US. zilch suggests that in 1961 people had to beat their dinner to death before they could eat it and traded bearskins and flint spears No Apollo wouldn't be possible without 1903 wright brothers biplane, the V2, jet powered aircraft and the Bell X-1 which proved that a person could actually be accelerated passed the sound barrier safely Not to mention everything else which I haven't listed

Going straight to Mars is not the way forward, we've seen some spectacular failures in history due to people thinking that they can go from small ventures to large enterprises in one easy big step, something which too few appreciate no thanks to Neil Armstrong and his "giant leap" soliloquy. In truth Armstrong's speech should have been "one small step for a man, serval small steps for mankind" Apollo took 10 years and it succeeded with baby steps where others (like the soviets) have failed by rushing. Playing KSP should show that any adventure needs proper planning and years of testing equal to the grand scale of the endeavour, otherwise you end up forgetting your landing legs, parachutes, fuel, EVA ladders you name it, just like a Kerbal, but unlike a Kerbal rocket scientist, in real life you have a duty to protect the life and limb of people who are more brave than yourself.

He's referring to the amount of debris to orbit, specifically he wants to orbit 200 tons of debris in one go. Good luck, With a craft like that you can go anywhere, that is, if it survives the ascent. 200 tons to orbit is a good way to make sure that you never lack Dv that's for sure, Your payload could be a Tylo base with 16 kerbs easily

Lunokhod. Find it at OKB-1 Energia in rocket builders It's a very capable rover because of the 8 wheels, it has the traction and battery power for prolonged steep climbing. On Kerbin, it can drive up any side of the launch pad at about 2m/s On the Mun it can climb hills like this: The camera in this picture is oriented so that the bottom of the picture is the direction of gravity, at the time of this picture Lunokhod was going up a 45 degree slope at 5m/s

I added both of them to OKB-1 thats awesome

Ok then, I hereby shut this thread down and move all its activities, processes etcet here:) http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/34125-Rocket-Builders-OKB-1-Russian-Rocket-Design-Firm-and-Repository?p=426152#post426152

OKB-1 Energia OKB-1 is a design group and a repository for stock KSP designs of Russian rockets Team: Darth Lazarus: R-7 Soyuz Rocket Design, Probe Design GusTurbo: N1-L3 Rocket Design, LK lander Design Halsfury: Proton Rocket Design, Payload Design for the mun orbital module of the N1 Contributors: sgt_flyer Kliper & Onega Angara Rocket family GusTurbo Munstrosity 1 (Stock N1) Headless Horseman (Payloadable Soyuz launcher) Darth Lazarus R-7 Rocket family Projects: Mini N1 (GusTurbo) Proton K/M, Zond & Mini Mir (Halsfury) The Craft Files Darth Lazarus: R-7 Rocket Family http://www./download/k6hxgsuax6p4qz2/Soviet+R-7+to+Soyuz+Family+v1_3.zip Sgt_flyer: Kliper & Onega http://www./download/md...er_Onega.craft Kliper Lite on supernova SHLLV http://www./download/bi...8/Kliper.craft Angara Family Lifters http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/32484-Angara-rockets-family-%28rockets-in-kit-!%29 GusTurbo: Munstrosity 1 (N1-L3 at full scale) don't press 0! http://www./download/bb794mcn93ef1su/Munstrosity+1.craft The Headless Horseman (Soyuz R-7 without the Payload) http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/31482-Soyuz-Lifter-No-Payload-AKA-The-Headless-Horseman Halsfury: Proton M Zond (Manned Circumlunar loop) http://www./download/n9dgyyqwolf1ub6/Soviet_Proton_M_Zond.craft Bonus: sgt_flyer provided this promotional OKB-1 Energia flag http://www./download/7i9sz96byo9j59f/OKB1.png Edit: Do these links cover the lot?

Also I think that I'll go live with the current iteration of OKB-1 (only the one nicer old propaganda poster) once I have got together sgt_flyer's crafts then I'll post a link here and you guys can put you crafts in a reply and I'll stick them in the main page