TomcatMVD

Cue the Inception music... *BRRROOOOMMM!"

Please tell me you nicknamed it "The Cow" xD

Definitely, I wouldn't go by that "tutorial" at all. Anyway, like people said, I'd give the Lazor Docking Cam a try, it really helps a lot. I learned docking before installing it and now I just feel like I'm cheating.

I loaded 100% of my monopropellant on the service module, and used the lander only up until rendezvous, then the SM docked onto the lander module.

I managed to put together my first "Apollo style" Mün landing. It is such a thrill to have everything work out as expected, specially for someone who keeps struggling with rocket building. The rocket performed well enough although I should have a third stage in it, so as to avoid wasting fuel from my service and lander modules. The dockings went pretty good, I even had to dock more times than planned because when I detached from the service module, I realized it was better to undock while it was behind the SM, since it was supposed to then start burning retrograde, so I docked again, turned around, and detached once again. Everything went silk smooth up until the reinsertion burn, which was only possible thanks to my copious amounts of monopropellant, otherwise my trustworthy 3 man crew would be stranded around Kerbin on an elliptical orbit with a Pe in excess of 3,000,000mts.

I love docking too. My struggle is building space-worthy craft... I would starve as an engineer.

Decided it should look more like a nation's flag than a Space Agency banner. Anyway, it's in my sig.

Figured I start anew after the last update. Just sent a probe to the mün. Next mission: Jebediah's münshot. First docking in Kerbin orbit: Some people can't get used to the whole EVA-ing without being secured to the mothership Jeb's having a blast though

Thanks, I was looking for an automated way of knowing it. IIRC it was MJ that had this little part you could attach to your ship as you were building it and it'd tell you the Delta V for each stage. Oh well... I can always do the math I guess Thanks.

What do you use for knowing your ship's Delta V? I used to use the MJ thingy but now it doesn't work.

My first successful mission to the Mün and back. Such a thrill! The third picture reflects how much fuel I had left after my re-insertion burn

Happened to me yesterday and I lost my **** until I realized the solution was rather simple. Place a maneuver node anywhere in your projected trajectory and pull one of the radial markers (the blue ones) until you see a Pe appear. Then just wait until you reach it and burn retrograde to create an actual orbit.

Thank you, kind sir.

I'm sorry for the question but I'm pretty new to this whole thing and don't have the mods figured out just yet. Which one gives you that robot arm thingy you're using to unload your cargo? Thanks.