magnemoe

I almost only uses the probe asas and sas now, Put them on the small strut connector at the side of rockets. The 2.5 meter version is to heavy and I only use the 1.25 meter if I have an small probe lander and need more height to mount stuff on.

True, you has to keep position the same way you have to keep position if you fly two satellites in formation. However if you drift off you would have to spend more and more trust getting back on the top. Fun fact an asteroid is actually in orbit between Earths L4 and L5 points. Its a bit inside earth orbit so it catches up, however then it reach L4 the change in gravity lift it up so it goes slower and it fall behind earth orbit until it reach L5 and go inward and repeats.

Yes it would be safe but it cancel out the point with rovers, they are kind of supposed to stay on the ground.

Pretty much this, one thing I loved about the Rome series was how alien they was. Two examples, mother suspect kid had an gay affair with Caesar, she was very upset then he did not follow up. Multiple times couples had sex with servants in the room. Simple stuff but made them more alien then Klingon or Na'vi. Now how would society be in 1000 years. Yes it would be way richer unless you do something post apocalyptic, but mores has changes a bit the last 60 or 200 years. Even weirder with gene manipulation people would probably change more the next 2-300 years than the last 30.000. So make attitudes change, often in weird ways but make it logical. Yes and you can add pointed fingers as long as its done an fun way but don't preach unless its an info dump.

An satelite become tidal locked if the same part point towards earth all the time. It would rotate once every orbit. If you set up an rotation like this it would be tidal locked in practice, you might even want to design it long with heavy parts in the ends to let nature help you pointing the antenna against earth.

Yes comes from having cows for some thousands years. An kid able to drink cow milk had an higher chance of survival. Guess most native Americans and lots of other groups who never had cows are mostly lactose intolerant.

Lots of the old ICBM and even some current Russians used hypergolic, its nasty in multiple ways, as in it does not matter if its very poisonous and corrosive as it explodes with contact with air. However they are tested regularly on ground, pollution from an launch is small in the overall perspective so you just has to find an decent location. However I guess the lander had to low TWR to be tested as it is on earth. And you see the lander has RCS, it does not appear that they have separate ones on the decent stage.

The irony is that since most of Laythe covered with water and the rest is mostly to mountainous for an base Duna is far easier here. With the launchpad mod you would want to build it on an location with ore and skip in fuel with an miner lander doing an suborbital jump.

Sounds very practical for long missions like to Jool, you burn for Jool and after the burn the first fuel tank is converted to living space for the crew, I never send anybody on an year long mission in only an pod. Note that the home habitat modules are actually wet workshops. They contains as much fuel and weight as much as an medium gray tank.

And add one copy on each part you want to control, like forgetting both mechjeb, ASAS and SAS on an Tylo lander. And only on the Tylo one where its most needed, yes it had power.

ASAS is nice as it keep your rover level if you jump. Use the small kspx ones on the small struts.

I tend to remove power on back wheels if using the new wheels, they have so good grip they can easy flip the rover accelerating under low g, at least if you forgot to go to docking mode. The same apply to braking and front wheels, if you remove it the acceleration or braking will stop then it tilt up.

Nice rocket but perhaps a bit overpowered, I used the 3rd stage almost to landing so I could probably have returned the lander to Kerbin. However it lack SAS/ ASAS on the service / command module part. I did not notice this until I did the command module and turnaround and dock outbound for Mun. Luckily I was lazy and had mechjeb on it, pretty hopeless with an ship who rotates so quick and no asas.

You did that too If you have parachutes they can still land on Eve if you drop them on an reentry path. Tend to do complex missions myself. last was an unmanned sample return mission from Jool atmosphere and rocks from all the moons, from Laythe this is atmosphere and water to. Worked out except the Tylo lander who missed an engine, this was a luck as I got enough fuel to return. However the Tylo followup mission will just land collect samples and return, and yes deploy an satellite in polar orbit.

Do both, main downside with the launchpads is that my bases grows to large and crashes the game. Feel an pretty desperate need for an 64bit KSP version.

Bones have an chance of being petrified, something who breaks down magnitudes harder and has an decent chance of being buried. Now not saying that the steel or aluminum would survive however it would leave traces and decent chance for generating an fossil. Lack of advanced creatures so long ago I think.

Main cost is probably the second stage who is not recovered, at least not yet, they have plans for it. One benefit is that first and second stage use the same engine and lots of other stuff so you can use old parts and save money. Second is checking everything and make sure it work the next time, this is that cost money on the space shuttle, you had to pull everything apart and check it but falcon 9 is simpler and this should be easier. Last part is fuel, transport and fairings.

Larry Niven did one with this, he used an balloon probe, second stage was an nuclear ramjet, atmosphere is pushed into the intakes then its heated in an reactor and pushed out back like on an nerva nuclear rocket. Yes it generate a lot of radioactivity but nobody on Venus will complain, the corrosive atmosphere would also break it down fast however you would only run it for some minutes. Upper stage is an nerva engine. Eve is simpler, no need for nuclear engines. This is for an unmanned Eve sample return mission. The propel is to move the blimp around so I can sample both rock and liquid. However I did use one LV-N to get out of Jool atmosphere.

If humans disappeared today, it would be plenty of evidence even 64 million years. Not of humans but all sort of junk would become fossilized, stuff car engines and larger metal parts. So no advanced civilization, something like the ancient Egyptians back at the time of the dinosaurs might leave no trace, better if its places somewhere where the area is underwater today. However we would find related species, it would not evolve alone. ---- That we made tools a million years ago is well know, Same with Neanderthals, however they did not have an civilization. Atlantis 10.000 year ago and so on don't work as knowledge would spread. However the oldest city is 10.000 year old. Might have been some older who is underwater now as the sea did raise after the ice age. However they would be stone age, probably fishers as it can support an large fixed population, they did however not have an significantly higher tech level than others.

Or controlled, I see the landing legs, engine, fuel tank and gear below the pod as an crumble zone, just like the front of your car. Not supposed to be used like this but has saved lots of kerbals during landing. However I also used the term of my first Moho landing who landed with 6km/s. The ship was non operational after landing.

True, usualy two ways to hit Laythe, one is to catch up with it then you pass, the other is to slingshot around Jool and get an intercept, fallback is to do an small aerobrake at Jool to get into an oribit who take you out to Val now tweak this to reach Laythe. This is also recomended if you have an fragile ship as the Laythe arobreak is high g.

Main problem with deadly reentry is the lack of heat shields for ships. We would also need shields with hatches for engines, landing legs and other stuff like on the space shuttle. Aerobraking works well in real world.

Best option would be to simply not list docked crafts with no magazines as an orion make a lot of sense as an mothership you dock multiple ships to but I can hardly think of an situation where you would want to dock two ships with magazines at once to it.

Thanks, still had issues with the Eve landing but it was probably the lander/ airship who was not balanced. However I still has a problem with final decent on low gravity worlds, lander start to spin around while burning the engines. Is this an known issue?

Yes, I started to skip parachutes or more frecvently soft land an lander, the parachute is an fallback who include ditching the lander stage and just landing the pod.