NeoMorph

This isn't a bug... Jeb decided to employ those guys from Space Engineers to get more metal for the rockets he keeps crashing... Unfortunately the metal was all found UNDER KSC (from when Jeb crash landed) and so when the Space Engineers dug it out... KSC sunk into a huge sinkhole... Now Jeb is busy running the scientists hard to learn STOL science. Anyone for a Harrier... DAMMIT... We cancelled them. BLAME THE TORIES!!!!

I had no probs after realising most of the parts are in the Utility section. I didn't offer my build because I made some mods (namely adding Deadly Re-entry ablative shielding to the heatshield).

0 degrees inclination means flat on the equatorial plane going from west to east which is why your rocket launches the way it does using Mechjeb with the inclination set to 0 degrees. To get the inclination angles use a circular protractor and align east to 0.

DennyTX has a lovely Apollo... http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/70557-APOLLO-%28SATURN-V%28with-F1-J2%29-APOLLO-CSM-LEM-LLRV%29-by-OLDD-%28v-1-0-08-04-14%29 Bobcat has a nice Orion pack (scroll down for the American Pack)... http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/24724-0-22-X-BobCat-ind-Historical-spacecraft-thread

Bit of a mistake there Horan.... it's actually http://ksp.olex.biz/. Greetings from the UK sndrtj. And welcome to the addiction called KSP.

I'm so glad that this is still going ahead. I had a look at Curse and realised just why they named it Curse in a few seconds. I mean, wait to download may be short now but I can see the time going up after a while trying to get you to buy prime. Would I ever do that? OOOH...FLYING SWINE. A community based one that can chop out the chaff AND have a good search engine (I am soooooo peeved with this forum search for example) that supports TLA's (that's three letter acronyms) that are abundant in KSP (hell, even the game acronym is a TLA) would be heaven. Curse is cursed. End of Story!

Switch SCE to Kraken.

I could have sworn I posted a reply... must not have hit enter as I was doing several things at once. Anyway, it turned out that you had to attach the Ascent Capsule to the docking port and not the other way around. Originally I started with the Ascent Capsule and was just adding the bits to it so I could have a separate LEM... but the docking cone wouldn't stick to the Ascent capsule. In the end I started with a Staysputnick, added the docking cone underneath it and then stuck the Ascent Capsule to that.... and it worked. Sometimes the attachment nodes confuse the hell out of me. Sorry if I sounded a bit exasperated in my earlier post (the one with me doing a facepalm). I knew it should work but just couldn't figure out why it wasn't sticking.

Actually it was all my fault... I had hacked gravity to test the RCS on a pod and forgot to turn it back on again. Makes for some weird flight paths... and a return from the Mun ended up coming in at around 150m/s. Had me scratching my head for a while.

Don't you just hate it when your flight path prediction makes no sense whatsoever.... Look's more like god's signature than a Mun encounter.

Tried that... still wouldn't let me.

Just went to do some part editing and when I went to reload the database instead of the button to reload it there is a message "Cannot reload in this scene". ARRRGH.. Anyone help me out here? I don't want to have to reload the game for every little part change....

Denny, got another project for you to add to the Saturn V project. Have you heard of IMIS.... http://www.astronautix.com/craft/imis1968.htm - Basically it was the proposal to stick NERVA engines to stage 3 of a Saturn V and then strap 5 of them together to make a Mars/Venus capable craft. The nuke engine already in KSP is perfect match but doesn't connect to stage 3 right so that should be a quick fix of shifting the connection node up a little, and then the big project would be making the MEM and the housings for it. EEM = Earth Entry Module, MM = Mission Module, MEM = Mars Entry Module Oh and the reason I have gone IMIS nuts... when I was a kid I used to collect tea cards for a collection called Race Into Space... this was back in the early 70's when Brooke Bond Tea used to have a cards included free inside their packets of Tea. Kids used to collect and swap them (another reason us brits used to drink so much tea lol). Sadly I lost track where my collection ended up but I think I had the whole lot and used to really love it when I got a card that I needed. But the real reason I remember it was the IMIS mission picture on the front...

This is my point. Take DennyTX's Saturn V... Lovely model and the current LV-N ingame is about the right size for it (but doesn't fit right atm... I'm hoping I can talk Denny into making a modded tank mounting)... but the darn LV-N is wimpy in comparison to the human NERVA. Needs a bit of a boost imho.

The reason I am looking into this is because I was looking at the IMIS (Integrated Manned Interplanetary Spacecraft) Mars mission specs... This is the one I mean... I was just thinking that the thrust from three of the ingame NERVAs aren't enough for that size craft. Oh yeah... the specs I was reading was from http://www.astronautix.com/craft/imis1968.htm EDIT: Oh and here is something that made me laugh... Maybe we didn't land on Mars back in the 80's but we can get our Kerbals to Duna... that makes Kerbals better than humans. GO KERBOL.

Was just watching this video on NERVA and it says that while ordinary engines have an ISP around 450 a NERVA engine would have an ISP of around 900. Go to 4:02 for the description of why the Nuke is so much better than chemical rockets. If that's right then what should the ISP of a Kerbal NERVA engine?

I finally got the lem rebuilt... had to do it separately and then save it as a subassembly and stuck it into the full rocket.

Arrgh... Found the separator... in the utility section *facepalm* (you really need to put these parts in the correct sections as separators should be in the structure section). My real problem though is that darned problematic docking cone. Totally refuses to attach to the docking cone hole. I love your Apollo Denny, but this latest release is a real problem for me. I've gone back to 1.1 for the time being. At least that one flies perfect for me...

He rebuilt the Launch Escape System so it would probably have a different ID.... so older Apollo rockets would be looking for the old LES and failing to find it so it's an invalid build. That's my guess. Good news will be no more dancing LES hopefully lol. Edit: Seems like it is the Lunar Lander Separator that is one of the problems... Not having a pre-built model in the zip is a big problem because I cannot find the separator at all now which means I cannot build the darn rocket with the LEM in it. DennyTX, you need to post a zip with the fully built Apollo in it... Either that or you may have missed some parts...

The AIES pack has a 2 panel version... And I have the Bobcat Orion that includes the service module. I just want the 3 panel solars.... but thanks anyway.

The crazy thing is that I bet when a big roid hits us that the politicians will scream " WHY WASN'T ANYTHING DONE ABOUT THIS BEFOREHAND??? ". It's basically a lottery where we don't want to win.... and even if the odds are small, they aren't zero which means that someday one will hit that will have a big impact (pun unintended) on the human race. So why not have a system to keep watch and give us some preparedness. Chelyabinsk should have been a wake up call. All we did though was turn over and hit the snooze button.

Does anyone here have a problem that when scheduling a burn out of comm range the burn begins fine but... doesn't... stop... burning... until it has overshot the target... overshot a LOT.

It turns out asteroid impacts aren't as rare as we thought. This is data from the seismographs listening for atom bombs... but these aren't atom bombs... 8/25/2000 (1-10 kilotons) NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN 4/23/2001 (1-10 kilotons) NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN 3/9/2002 (1-10 kilotons) NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN 8/9/2006 (1-10 kilotons) INDIAN OCEAN 9/2/2006 (1-10 kilotons) INDIAN OCEAN 10/2/2006 (1-10 kilotons) ARABIAN SEA 12/9/2006 (10-20 kilotons) EGYPT 9/22/2007 (1-10 kilotons) INDIAN OCEAN 12/26/2007 (1-10 kilotons) SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN 10/7/2008 (1-10 kilotons) SUDAN 10/8/2009 (>20 kilotons) SOUTH SULAWESI, INDONESIA 9/3/2010 (10-20 kilotons) SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN 12/25/2010 (1-10 kilotons) TASMAN SEA 4/22/2012 (1-10 kilotons) CALIFORNIA, USA 2/15/2013 (>20 kilotons) CHELYABINSK, OBLAST, RUSSIA 4/21/2013 (1-10 kilotons) SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO, ARGENTINA 4/30/2013 (10-20 kilotons) NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN Source: https://b612foundation.org/ Freakin mind blowing. We are practicing Asteroid defence for NASA lol.

One of the biggest hurdles I found is something soooooo silly that you would think it would be easy to find. And what is that? A plus/minus version of the seven segment display for use in a DSKY. I've found some 14 segment displays that arrived today which are actually bigger than my seven segment displays but the actual character is 0.5mm smaller. Shouldn't be much of a problem though.

Ahhh... gotcha... Some of those early lifting bodies look a lot like Spaceship One (and Two). The big difference was the new material science that makes the body so much lighter. The Shuttle on the other hand turned into nothing more than a flying brick... Most of the Astronauts from the Mercury/Gemini/Apollo hated shuttle. They called flying it nothing more than being a bus driver. So I'm betting they did everything in their power to make it suck more so it would fail lol. Seriously though, America lost its way in the space race... It's like they got to the the moon and said.... "WE WON... but there isn't anything here... let's go home" and just lost the plot. Now China is storming ahead... and with all the tech they have bought, stolen and invented, they are in a really strong place. The US on the other hand don't even have a man rated launch spacecraft. Did the shuttle overcosts, poor design (due to penny pinching bureaucrats) and disasters actually kill the US space program? Personally I think it did. And Obama finished it off.