The Scientific Moustache

not available for download though.

4 wheel rear landing gear blocks would be nice too.

Liquid Hydrogen fuel and a Gas Core NTR would be awesome; amazing work here though., cannot wait for these to be 0.21 compatible.

what engines are those with the sphere above the bell?

well you could re-purpose habitation modules from the international space station to cut down on to orbit mass.

I have no Kerbal may be in space for more than 90 days unless on a specific deep space mission, so my station crew and munar shuttle crews have to be changed.

are the tanks 0.21 compatible?

yeah I see it in the start menu too.

measure the largest in parttonnes weight x number of parts, its fair and unbiased.

has anyone ever built any decent sized battleship in orbit, no hyperedit?

but it is impossible to achieve in KSP no matter how long and uneven your mass is. any satellite get s approximated as its mass at CoM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerogravity_assist Just read this, want to try.

yeah I do my kethane refining in orbit, as kethane is lighter than fuel/oxidiser now (AFAIK) so I use the jumbo cylinder as part of my miner and ferry that up to my minmas orbit refinery.

some of my designs incorporating the tanks... My Kerbin Sphere Tug "Ea" for shuttling things to and from my Minmas refinery ship. One of the fuel transfer modules that is towed. Finally "Anshar" fuel depot, in LKO, 20K of all three resources minimum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi-elliptic_transfer have you ever considered incorporating bi elliptic transfers. these would be preferable in terms of delta v over hohmann transfers while going from/to moho to/from jool or eeloo. Also eeloo to eve either way. Also very useful for going into low kerbol orbit.

so now take the next step and figure out how thrust varies over time

I want to try and put a small research station in orbit around Kerbol, I was just wandering how close you can get on stable orbit?

Yeah - even the to orbit autopilot will screw up on some launches, if there is not enough SAS torque the gravity turn doesn't turn far enough to the horizontal. It will start burning below the horizon to compensate and before you know it you have an apoapsis of 80km and a periapsis of 30km and you are coming to the periapsis first.

yeah I had this problem and it was a part without a command module of any kind, it was a solar panel arm on a space station.

OK here is my LKO refuelling depot, when finished it will be around 320t, it sits at 80km, so far 8 launches and around 6 to go (mostly liquid). This will be my stop-over while I construct a larger station at GKO for launching large interplanetary vessels. can hold 20k liquid and 20k oxidiser plus 14k mono-propellant. It has two small and one large space-tugs. It can berth up to 5 small vessels (<50t) and 1 large (>50t) at any given time. In the photo the mono fueller can be seen docked at what will be the large ship berth.