wraith of vern

Well I was just trying something simple before like stacking 2 BACCs ontop of each other with decouplers. I never thought to actually empty the top one first. I have definitely been out of KSP for far too long. The tests probably are easier in aircraft but, I can't fly them at all. I'm not sure I'm following. Do you mean to first fire the BACC manually by right-clicking, they just activate in staging when I reach that altitude. I did the parachute one quite easily when it occurred to me to open to mk16 on accent. But on another note I got the contract for the Mun so I've upgraded my launch pad, but I'm going to be stuck with the 30 part limit on the VAB for quite some time.

I havn't actually played KSP properly since I think 0.19, I did a Science career in about April. So my approach was just to gather as much science as I could to start with, they I kind of realised that I needed to take contracts to gain money to upgrade my facilities. By this point all of the contracts had gotten a little tricky, so I am still trying to battle through some of those now to actually get some funds. So far I have managed to achieve a stable orbit of about 80km which did give me 50,000 funds. But I spent that on contract spots which, might have been a bad idea. So at the moment I'll either have to start over or battle through the tricky contracts. I'll give a few examples: - Test mk16 parachute between 20,000-30,000m at speeds of 280-500ms. Using staging system I've had a few attempts at this, and I'm going to have to use a radial parachute first before the mk16 to actually do this. - Test Rockomax BACC between 10,000-(something) at speeds 200-500ms (or something like that) THIS I have no idea how I'll do, because I have to meet those requirements before actually firing the BACC. I can't use it until then and well, thats a pretty big dead mass to be carrying with a 18 tonne pad limit. (might have gone off topic)

That sounds like a lot of the pre-ISS Space Shuttle missions.

Surely it is less cost effective to send an entire lab up each time you want to do science? It must be easier to just keep a small lab in an easily accessible orbit for future use and expansion.

...when your space station becomes a Duna mission.

How exactly am I installing Subassembly Saver/Loader? The installation guide on SpacePort is rather brief, and doesn't explain where all the files are supposed to go.