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Is there a plan to implement contracts where a company will ask you to launch a satellite (that they've premade) into a specific orbit around a planetary body? Say you accept it and it, you get the satellite somehow (maybe under sub assemblies or saved crafts) and then you build a rocket around it and launch it.

I am currently doing a research paper on the space race for my history class. I am mostly finished with it but I haven't been able to find any information as to why the Soviet Union was so much further ahead of the United States during the early stages of the space race. Does anyone here know? Thanks!

From what I remember there used to be a bar telling you the reaction force the SAS and ASAS were providing, it's pretty useful to know if your SAS/ASAS isn't providing enough force to keep your craft stable

Because they actually display(ed) useful information? As far as I know the pod doesn't actually tell you anything

In the video before they finish sending the spacecraft off to mars they put it in a spin. Why do they do this?

As far as I know it does that until you begin mission (press space). In order to decouple the pod/activate the ion engine he would have had to stage and therefore start the mission

I would use it all the time

Elements of randomness when it comes to malfunctions is terrible. I would rather know that my spacecraft isn't working because of my mistakes rather than it isn't working because of some probability that I fell into

which parts are you having difficulty with? I can't think of any parts where I didn't know what it did

Engineer works

I guess for me it would be any reason to go to other planets. I've tried Kethane but I'm so bad at it. Stuff like data collection, mapping, perhaps having to discover the planet, etc. That is what I desire.

are we going off of this? http://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Planned_features

I think the image is his, I could be wrong though

wasn't the moon landing on the 20th

So if I was to use FAR and aerodynamic rockets I should follow a more real life launch profile?