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I'm not sure exactly how much time I had, but the craft was basically just doing an extremely close flyby. I had a few seconds to attach it with the kerbal, but it was somewhat stressful. The reason is that because of a messed up rendezvous procedure, I ran out of fuel before I could match velocities. If I were to do it again, I could probably do it safely.

I've done something similar. I used an EVA kerbal with a connector plug to hook two spacecraft together, with a relative velocity of roughly ten meters per second. I then went back and grabbed another plug, and attached it on the other side of the docking port, and retracted both at the same time. The overly strong and rapid winches made them crash into each other and a thruster broke off, but I'm sure with designs that take collisions into account it would be a very effective method of docking.

Most Soviet launchers were also sold to the politicians as ICBMs or other weapon systems, because it made them more likely to receive funding. For instance, the Vostok capsule was occasionally fitted with cameras to operate as an imaging satellite, the Salyut-series of space stations also produced several military Almaz stations, and the Buran was considered a "strategic weapons system" to the military, such as its capability to launch MIRVs (which any spacecraft can do, it was just used as rationale for the massive budget compared to other projects in the space programme). The Soviets never really spent a lot of money on their space programme, it was the competition between the design firms that made it so successful.

Exploding and "bouncing" ships after loading is a known and old KSP bug.

The Buran's single flight nonetheless demonstrated its complete superiority. The fact that budget cuts made it the only flight doesn't affect that.

What would be wrong with using liquid boosters instead of solids anyway? The Buran shuttle's Energia launcher used liquid boosters, and it was far better than the NASA shuttle.

I've seen Russian aircraft, Polish aircraft, Swedish aircraft and a French airliner. All of them used metric units. Still, as there will be an option to set the avionics to use serious and scientific meters instead of cutesie little footsies, it won't really be a problem.

Don't know which aircraft you've been looking at, but the metric system is the standard for flight computers as far as any aircraft I've ever seen.

I'm sure he intends to fix that. If not, it's easy enough to do yourself.

Frankly, the advanced IVA is the thing I like the most about this shuttle. It is my hope that more mod cockpits, or perhaps even the stock ones, will adopt something similar, because this is just beautiful.

Talked to Maxmaps about it, he said that they do have individual teeth, but that they don't look like in the image.

So how many polygons is it?

They do look a lot better than the stock ones.

Here's a good one.http://hamsoft.ca/pages/mmsstv.php

Just watched it. Oh dear.

Of course he did, he's a nice guy. Looking forward to seeing the result.

The problem is, GMT refers to the time at Greenwhich, which is in England. England uses Daylight Savings Time, which lends ambiguity to whether you referred to GMT or GMT+1 during the summer. Instead, you should be using UTC, which is the international standard basis for timezones, defined as GMT without DST.

Your debug is powerless against the mighty Hex Editor.

That would be Riess.http://mk01.deviantart.com/

His image wouldn't use any assets from the original image, merely concepts, such as the posing and general idea. It falls under fair use for him to imitate it.

I am aware. I wasn't quite serious, I was just making a joke about how all he's really done lately has been behind-the-scenes optimisation, which while direly needed, isn't quite as cool as science or the new KSC.

He's just some bloke who hasn't done anything cool in a long while. What they need is more Artyoms. Artyoms by the truckload.

It isn't really anything to worry about. If a mod dies off, and it filled a niche that had to be filled, another mod will take its place, regardless of whether the original mod was open source or not. Frankly, I'm happy that some of the mods on your list may die off, I didn't think of them as either needed or useful.

That is mildly horrifying.

Today, I docked my second SSTO to my new space station. A harrowing experience, since I get insane amounts of lag whenever I'm near it due to the massive part count. It actually took so long to dock, that I had to split it into two sessions, as it just got too late to continue yesterday. After that, I needed to calm myself, so I dropped another probe on Duna. This is QT-Probe 3.