ZenViolence

I stranded Jeb on the moon. Built a rescue craft that didn't have enough fuel to get back, also stranded on the moon. Built a new rescue craft, and put my engineer redux part on the capsule. Got to the moon with lots of fuel to spare, but when Jeb got to the craft, he noticed that I was in symmetry mode when placing the Engineer Redux part, and so blocked the entrance to the capsule. Still stuck on the moon...

Edit: Got Ninja'd

Foils can drop anytime. I got one on Steam Level 3

The tutorials on the Wiki are great. I learnt lots there, and now even more with the campaign on it

Damn End Flight button... Clicked it in my absent minded mess instead of going back to the space center. Please hurry with 0.21!!

SRV Ron, Just out of curiosity, at which altitude would you start your gravity turn with this design, and how aggressive are you with it?

DrGonzo, why not go about it the Gonzo way? A la Fear and Loathing in Outer Space!

Thanks for the tips. Keen to try them out! For now I'm focusing on the campaign on the Wiki, seems there is also a lot to be learnt in a convenient way

Howdy folks, So I've been playing around with KSP, and it's been great so far. Though, I think I'm getting to the point where being part of the community will make things easier. I've gone through most of the tutorials on the Wiki, and Scot Manley's Youtube vids have been great. Jeb pwned the moon, and got back alive And got my ISS replica started. Though if you guys could give me some advice on 2 things it would be great. 1) Docking I've made things a bit easier for myself by using ASAS. Though I'd like to be able to dock without it. Point the 2 modules in opposite directions, activate ASAS, and RCS translation doesn't change the rotation of the ship which makes it easy as pie. I managed it without ASA during my moon landing, but it took me around 2 hours real time to get docked What I'd like to know is, what is the optimal placement of RCS thrusters in order to lose as little rotation as possible when doing translation manuevers? 2) Steering with Atomic Rockets I want to start going to different planets, and Atomic Rockets seem to be the way to go. Is there a way to steer them other than RCS thrusters? The probe that I'm sending may be a bit overkill with a helluva lot of fuel, and I think due to the mass I don't seem to get enough torque for steering from the unmanned control module. And using monoprop for steering just seems wasteful if it can be avoided. Cheers and happy space faring!