Hanyuu

Well, backing up more seems to have fixed it. That's annoying, I was trying to do everything else for like 30 minutes.

I'm trying to build a station. I'm using Mechjeb to do the initial docking (since I suck at it and couldn't care less about doing it manually), however the parts are usually rotated wrong. So I'm trying to undock, rotate the part so that it looks nice, and then move back to dock again. But it doesn't work, when I try to dock it just bounces off. I'm less than a meter away from the docking port at most, and the docking port is lined up 99.9% (I checked). What am I doing wrong?

I started playing about a week ago, and I've just started to branch out and start sending probes to other planets. (My ship!) And plotting a correct course is kinda hard. Getting away from Kerbal and into an orbit that kind of meets up with the planet I want to go to is easy, but from that point I'm just randomly plotting maneuvers into the map and seeing if one gets close enough to enter the planet's gravity. Which is kind of just like precision guessing, really. Is there a better way to be doing this? The closest approach indicator is some help, but it's still hard.