Tinyboss

A quartet?

Ahh, so you can't control right/left and shallow/steep independently. That makes sense.

How do you get two dimensions of output (right/left, shallow/steep) out of one dimension of control input (roll)? Genuinely curious.

It's a unique tank that I've always enjoyed using. I'll be disappointed if they go through with this.

Pretty sure mine was a capsule on top of an SRB. Not sure whether it had a decoupler or parachute.

Sounds like the OP has this sorted, but for anyone else who comes here looking for help with these missions, here's my routine: First, I do an EVA at the space center and put down a flag. Then I turn flags on in the tracking center view, so I can easily locate the KSC. I line up my view so that the camera is in the plane of the target orbit, i.e. the orbit just looks like a straight line. I run time acceleration until the KSC is just crossing the plane of the target orbit. I make a note of roughly which direction the target orbit is (e.g. north by northeast), and then I go do my launch, doing the gravity turn in the direction I noted earlier instead of straight east. Then as Sirrobert said, match periapsis and apoapsis. It usually requires a very small adjustment after that to get everything matched up.

Me, too. Me, too.

You could call it complaining, or you could call it doing the tester's job. Up to you!

With the "Outsourced R&D" strategy, it's trivial to max the entire science tree without leaving LKO or running a single experiment. Put it at 25%, do enough easy missions to get up to solar panels, then stick a guy in orbit, and farm "science from space around Kerbin" missions for easy funds and science. Once you have enough funds to upgrade your admin building, put it at 60%, and easily pile up enough science (10k) to never have to worry about it again.