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And to top it of, place a communotron 16 antenna (the small one) on the wingtips pointing forward. Then extend it.

I know some Atlas rockets dropped engines but I did not know these LV-3B rockets did that also. do you have any more info on it? Since there isn't anything on the boost engines on wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_LV-3B

Why isn't the Atlas LV-3B (used during the Mercury orbital missions) considered a SSTO? Technically it is. It was a single staged rocket that got the Mercury capsule into orbit. That means that the entire launch stack (Atlas rocket + payload) was in orbit just between MECO and speration of capsule. Which is technically the definition of a Single Stage To Orbit. True, it doesn't return from orbit. But a vehicle that returns in one piece should be called a SSTOAB (Single Stage To Orbit And Back)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-47 This mission had a married couple aboard. But I doubt they 'did things'.

Tom Lehrer is very funny. His periodic table song is a must know nerd song!

there are spacecrafts that returned to Earth from interplanetary space. NASA's Stardust and JAXA's hayabusa missions returned samples from a comet / asteroid. These capsules also used the atmosphere to slow down and used a parachute for the last minutes. Stardust returned with a velocity of almost 13Km/s and reached about 34g.

This is why it would be good for people to get a small training before operating a machine connected to the internet.

Cool, I'm not at home now but when I get home i'll take the extra work to remove all the science parts and return them home. Since I've used my ssto shuttle to get to the asteroid (which is in a orbit with a 40+ degree inclination orbit) I rather not try the return a second time to check if I ge trefunded.

Quick question, When you recover a landed vessel, do I also get refunded for the parts that are in the inventories? I have a couple of science experiments placed on a asteroid and want to know if it is a good idea to remove those parts and bring them home before I depart my Kerbals from the asteroid.

I saw a rudimentary shape of it with binoculars. I could tell there was some black between the giant solar panels. I am working on making a photo of the ISS as a station, not as a line across the sky. but it is very hard. Every time I tried my camera was just not pointing the right way. (and there was that time a plane flew over its path trowing off my cameras focus.) The hardest part is getting the camera steady, I got a tripod, but pushing the button makes the camera wobbly oh so slightly. I can set a delay on my camera of 2 seconds. But that makes it harder to point my camera towards the sky where the ISS will be.

I pretend that each mission is a simulation. When I lose a craft during launch I revert because 'it was a test'. Until I get the launch just right.

Saw a couple during 23:00-00:00

I hope its gonna be clear here in the Netherlands

I think your link is broken, at least I can't read anything. Just gives me some sort of editor.

We'll send Jodie Foster into space.

Hey guys! Reinstalled my laptop and now I'm stuck with the default Windows wallpaper. I want a cool space themed wallpaper. Anyone of you got a cool one? I prefer a real photo rather than a sci/fi image.

Moho is actually quite cheap to go to if you do a off plane transfer. Make your intercept burn when Kerbin is opposite to Moho's Ascending or descending node (also happens to be Moho's ap and pe). this way your intercept point is at the node and you don't have to do a expensive plane change.

A few weeks ago a colleague of mine almost killed a motorcyclist with me in one of the passenger seats of our truck. We got stuck behind a big truck that was driving about 70 / 80 Kilometer per hour on the highway. We decided to pass that truck so we could get to a more constant speed. While we where on the left lane passing the slower truck on the right lane a motorcyclist decided that our overtaking action took to long.. So he got in between the trucks. came up to our cabin (where the driver has less visibility) and slowed down. We where very lucky the other truck saw the cyclist and honked his horn when we went back to the right lane... Or else we would have killed the poor guy. I spend a lot of time on the highway and often see motorcyclists do really weird stuff, driving without protective clothing, trying to overtake cars with to bikes next to each other. Constantly changing speed. trying to overtake via the flight strip.I understand the joy of a motorbike, but there are times that they completely disregard safety...

Since there is a stupid things during a mission thread, lets talk positive and share our good luck moments during our missions. I'll start Today in my career mode game I went for my second Mun landing mission with Valentina as pilot. As the first mission was on the Kerbin facing side of the Mun, this one was due to land in the East farside crater. during descent I landed pretty close to the canyon biome east of the east farside biome. During EVA to gather some science from that area I noticed how many biomes where packed so close together. within EVA pack travelling distance I had Highlands, Highland craters, East farside crater, Midlands & canyon EVA reports and surface samples. Waaay more science than planned to get during the mission. And in a sandbox game a few days ago I did a Eloo return trip. When fidlling around with the manouver node I got my apoapsis and ascending node with Eloo in the same place, which saved me tha hassle of doing a plane change correction halfway my mission (and saving precious delta V).

got into EVA orbit around the Mun using the EVA fuel packs in the KIS mod.

to take it even further, the mathematical explanation of gravity made by Newton was also a hobby project. It was only till Sir Edmund Halley asked Newton if he could make calculations how the moon, Earth and other planets rotate that Newton showed his calculations. And after that he turned 26, the same age I'm now . I feel stupid...

Well actually, we live in the future. It is true light takes some time to reach our eyes, but our brains process these signals differently. It trries not to understand what is happening 'now' (now being this moment minus the time light took to travel). Our brain actually tries to figure out what is going to happen. This makes it easier for us to anticipate certain situations.

I travel through time a lot. But I only manage to go about 60 seconds per minute.

Hard question. Most things that happened in space are cool. STS 9 was pretty cool with the APU on fire during landing.

Weird white clouds surrounding the first stage engines and it just fell apart.