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What about fins? They can cause problems if placed badly, but maybe some well placed ones could do a bit of good.

Gotta be Minmus. It's beautiful. But I've yet to properly explore the extra-kerbinar moons yet, so may find another. Gilly does sound fun...

But still, you gave them things to do, which I didn't until my second interplanetary flight. (Unless you count the rover-probes that were tacked on to my first Duna lander. None of them lasted a week, and I never placed control sources on the bottom of a rover again.)

Could be parts clipping. They don't like to be inside each other. Hold on, do you mean spinning or tipping over?

That closest approach thing is going to be very useful with gravity assists in the Jool system. (I hope.) So that was good timing for me!

Mining the Sun.... That could be an achievement. But a certain Doctor Who episode might be worth watching first. Bill: "Bob? What's happening? Bob" Bob: "Burn with me!"

Food and sleep just get in the way.

Jeez, that's barely any time at all. (Gotta love astronomical time scales.

Fantastic! I like the one with a mustache!

Nice! Good solution with the seat. Yeah, reentry heat isn't in yet. Fun times. Geschosskopf, good luck with that rescue! Practice rendezvousing to craft around Kerbin first, it takes a little to master it properly.

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When I'm doing something that could go wrong. If I remember.

I like the way the kerbals don't seem bothered in the slightest. "Oh look, the sky."

Erwise seems like an interesting guy. You're very well prepared for a first-time Mun lander. Your space program must be pretty organised. Mine was more like "MOON! GO NAO!" And I stacked SRBs until the rocket went high enough to get there. Jeb loved it. Some photos from my first Mun (and rocket) attempts. This stage looked awesome. Still experimenting with designs here. Why the panels? Because they looked awesome, that's why. And we're here! (Yep, were here, and alive, that's what counts right?)

Those canal things are cool. But I'll raise you one. Ever curious, my kerbal stepped forward to an instant death. Poof! This terrain have been fixed by now. Today, I'm going to show some photos from a favorite set of mine. Antics on Duna! Celebrating that they were almost back to the lander, they had some fun on the roof, and violating safely policies. That's right, we are on top of the decoupler (which was installed the wrong way around), and falling of, and loving it! Oh, hey ground! You're awesome! The problem with this vehicle, was that the breaks never stayed on, and could not be activated remotely. A kerbal had to be inside at all times, or we risked loosing the vehicle and becoming stranded still many Km from the lander. But Danble did not want to be left out! Yet Bob and Erbald were more than happy to see him up there. They literally would not stop grinning. Party on the roof! Awesome fun times. Made the construction error totally worth it.

One of the main advantages I believe purely asparagus or cross-fed rockets have over serial stages is the fact that there aren't any heavy engines being dead weight at any time. The contrast between the amount of rocket I needed to lift my standard Mun rescue vessel into orbit with a mostly serial staged lifter, compared to my more recent asparagus rockets. Though perhaps I could've saved some weight with clustering smaller engines, or using the new skipper engine. Droptank designs have this advantage too. This shuttle was intended to save anything expensive, so it could be re-used. But the mainsail had a problem of falling of after the parachutes were deployed. You could call replacing a whole engine "maintenance", so I guess I had one of the same problems the real shuttle program had.

Had a game of "Angry Kerbs". This concept needs further development.

Not always. I had one get his head stuck part way out of his helmet for a while, due to the get-stuck-in-one-pose glitch. Naturally, I rushed him back to the lander before his face froze. I guess he still could breath, at least.

Remind you of anyone? I did suspect Jeb, Bob, and Bill seemed like they'd do those different roles. So that was interesting to hear.

I haven't seen one around, but it shouldn't be too hard to put together. The figures from the wiki are probably accurate.

Didn't want to spend the Delta V to get into a proper mapping orbit, but that's Ok. I'll just take photos. And to save time, I'll just use floodlights to light half the moon. Tylo albedo experiment! The spacecraft is a smallish white dot in the second pic.

Didn't know. Will have to try it some time.

Idk, I remember seeing the video of someone who flew an SSTO to Laythe, and their plane was flown at 45 degrees for much of the accelerating towards orbit. Maybe you haven't got enough lift because the air is too thin, and need help from engines? Perhaps someone with more expertise than myself can advise. Also, welcome to the forums!

They've had teeth for a while: This is what you see when you clip the camera through their head.

Outch. Poor guy. Not that he seems worried. Did he stay like that?