Asheron04

I know this may have been asked before but does my drilling rig still collect kethane while not in control of the vessel? I know the scanners do not continue to scan the surface so I would assume the drills would not collect either. Anyone know for sure?

That was simply an epic video.

That my friends is a union break.

Youtube is your best friend. Just find a good tutorial like the pheonix project and follow it step by step. After you accomplish that you will find doing it on your own much easier. This game is one of the best out there and its still in Alpha. Dont give it up, trial and error.

Mechjeb also is not very fuel effecient in my opinion. I do my landings manually.

Start using quicksave (f5) and reloading to try again (f9)

I have done this several times by accident and for awhile didnt know you had to go to the space center instead of end flight. If you happened to quick save and havent quick saved since then you should be able to re-load your save.

149. Why cant my kerbalnauts have a hunger, hygiene, fun, health, etc bars that I have to micromanage. I thought this was space sims ;-)

Well I had plans to take pics of this whole mission. But I only remembered to snag a few along the trip. I have a mun base in progress that consists of a communications tower, my Nova Base rover, and an MOLAB for extended operations away from the main base. Jeb along with his trusty sidekick Bill had been running the base operations for just over a year. I figured a year on the mun was wearing down on Jeb and Bill so I decided to plan a mission to bring them home. Operation Homecoming was a success although it did take the two Kerbalnauts quite some time to re-adjust to gravity again! Here are a couple of the screenshots I managed to snap of the space programs heroes return. Here we have Jeb maneuvering the Nova Base Rover to where the return ship landed 2km away from Mun Base Alpha Here we have Jeb and Bill hastily making their way to the return ship. Two more Kerbalnauts rotated with Jeb and Bill. There are six kerbalnauts stationed at Mun Base Alpha The return ship breaking through the atmosphere. Due to an engineering problem not addressed before take off, the parachutes deployed too soon. Luckily they didn't burn up and they were able to slow the decent of the craft. And finally Jeb and Bill coming in for a hot landing at the KSP launch facility at Kape Kanaveral. With the Mun Base mission a success Jeb has handed over command of that mission to Munski Kerman where he will continue to conduct experiments and prepare for eventual resource mining of the mun. Jeb and Bill are being assigned to a new mission to be the first Kerbals to set foot on Duna and begin colonization. When asked about the Duna mission Jeb had no comment.

This will make a great addition to my permanent moon base. Will edit with a pic once im done landing this beast!

Great. Thanks for the tips fellas. Ill give it another go later and let you know how it goes!

I have never used the calculator before...ill give it a shot after work. Quicksave is always your friend! Also I have been placing my craft in a 500 km orbit around kerbin to fast forward till duna intercept window. Is this a good practice or is there an easier way of doing it?

Hello everyone. Im not sure if there is a how to already posted for this but im having some issues planning my duna intercept. I always seem to overshoot and cannot get a close enough encounter to get into its soi. And after I do im not sure how or if I should do an aerobrake or just burn retro. Any tips would be appreciated.

Well I personally havent ventured past minmus because I have been so busy with experiments on it and the mun. But I have a mission in the works for a manned flight and eventual base on the surfacr of Duna so ill have to try my hand at some magic boulder experiments. Thanks again for the great read.

Thanks bud. Im going to test her out when I get off work tonight. Back to your post, im just curious about how long this mission took. Seemed pretty strenuous.