CapnMorgan18

Unfortunately, the story you are referring to is satire. http://www.thebeaverton.com/chris-hadfield-ejected-from-movie-theatre-for-loudly-heckling-gravity.htm a funny read nonetheless

Is it a probe or does it have kerbals, if the latter, you can always EVA and use your EVA thrusters to push the ship retrograde at the apoapsis.

Just hired a Philgas Kerman, looks like he will be in my Orbital Refueling Station once I get it up and running.

These are my hopes for the implementation of science retrieval: Allow for both transmission of data and retrieval of same data. (IE - Land a probe on Duna take soil samples transmit data back to KSC. Later a manned flight can be sent to retrieve samples for remainder of science points) Allow for continuous science to be done on a Space Station, scientific results transferred to manned or unmanned modules and de-orbited back to KSC.

I agree, this can be implemented similar to the communotron 16 animation.

I'd like to see a 3rd option. balance across Center of Mass. Harder to do with more RCS tanks. But its doable eventually

MechJeb Thread http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/12384-PART-0-21-Anatid-Robotics-MuMech-MechJeb-Autopilot-v2-0-9