M83

Baseballs. Had to study a packet last year on space exploration and its way of explaining the mathematical forces of Newton's Third Law was by giving the example of baseball-propelled rocket. To be serious though, probably just a good nuclear rocket. If I had my own spacecraft I'd just fly around our own solar system.

Finally learned reliable docking, so I built a small crew and refueling station. Looks a bit like Skylab, no?

I don't play with mods normally, but I do appreciate some parts of mods, such as Mechjeb's built-in Delta-V calc or the Chatter mod, which are nice when you realise that it's good to have information and realism at times. Mods are nice and help fill the gap for some players who are waiting for the updated stuff to end up in future versions of KSP.

Welcome to the forums! Hope you find everything here fun and interesting to make your KSP experience all the much better.

My most recent mission was a rendezvous-and-dock of two unmanned probes around Kerbin at about 3,000,000m. First time I'd ever docked something, so I was very proud of finally doing that.

So I was looking through the "What not to suggest" and saw FTL drives as a possible implementation and I've heard stuff about it being possibly a late-game addition (and to also not suggest it). However, I was thinking about this, if we have FTL drives, shouldn't there be some form of experimental intermediary stages of development between them? It seems odd in my head to jump from stuff like ion and nuclear engines to FTL speeds. So does anyone have any (rational) idea as what would be a good intermediary steps to get from where we are to FTL? Discuss away.

Well the economy is showing signs of improvement here in America as long as financial issues in the EU and China don't drag us down. And as for there not being anything developed since the Space Shuttle, well it's only been a little over 2 years. The MPCV i.e. Orion capsule has been in development since 2005, as it was part of Project Constellation, and after that was canned it was renamed Orion and continued development, so it was started before the end of the Shuttle program. I personally have hope for the SLS, MPCV, and CCDev as they all stand a good chance of being almost done around the 2016 elections, so there should be no reason to cancel them unless massive budget issues or delays.

I can't argue with that, obviously. Also, Deep Space by Sub Focus is a good song for the half of space that is terrifying and deadly.

The mental power of me thinking to use the abacus is probably faster than my processor. Sounds like a deal.

I've got 4GB of RAM in mine but my laptop is by no means built for gaming. My 1.3Ghz AMD E-300 processor is definitely the piece of garbage holding me back.

I tend to disagree, as things like hunger, poverty, disease, are always going to be here. I do not think humanity will be capable of eradicating every last ill that affects ourselves. So because of that, we should not limit ourselves to only fixing problems down here, because we've got dreams up there. No matter what, governments and private companies will promote space, and they're not wrong for doing that instead of doing, say, cancer research. Space and disease, they are quite similar in that we cannot give all resources to one and none to the other, as it stunts the ability for humanity to progress. It's like when you look at all the fancy machines in hospitals and the high-tech computers and all that jazz. When that stuff was conceptualized, it might have had to do with the field of, say, quantum physics, or chemistry, and the scientists and programmers, for all intents and purposes, did not care about whether it affected medicine. But some of the things have, and it's bad to dismiss an area of science if it can help us so much. Apologies for getting so off-topic, back to the discussion at hand.

I'd have to say the most beautiful moment was my Minmus lander + probe, which went perfectly after not being tested. It was made all the more fun that when I detached my probe and watched it drift away, I was listening to a song called "I'm Sending You Away".

I'm no mathematician, but I cannot follow where his work is going at all, and it doesn't tend to make very much sense. It seems like he even had some issues following his own math as well. Maybe the more experienced math people on here can chime in on the matter.

0.18.4 after my friend told me about it when we were studying last year's Academic Decathlon Science guides.

Alright Ben, here's my comically horrible attempt at your challenge. This was the fastest speed I could get the craft up to. And here's a general picture of it, you can see one of the Kerbals' heads poking through. So a max velocity of 58.2m/s, a weight of 1.97 tons, and 2 Kerbals on board. 58.2 * 1.97 * 3 equals.....*drum roll* a lackluster 343.962 points!