Jguy

I was able to get the Aeris4A around the planet a few times and back to KSC AND land on the runway WITH fuel to spare. So happy! I also went on to start constructing a launch vehicle to start putting a space station and its parts into orbit around Kerbin. The vehicle on it's first unmanned trial run was extremely flimsy and didn't have the power I would have liked, but did get the Aeris Space Station Core (yes, the new station will be called the ASS ) up there, albeit barely and left a large hunk of junk in orbit. The junk has a small amount of fuel left in it, so when I get a shuttle capable of docking with the station up there, I'll hopefully be able to rendezvous with the junk and suck the fuel out of it, then use the shuttle to deorbit it (hopefully). Another alternative is, because it's a Jumbo orange tank and I believe it has decouplers on tanks that are still coupled, I'll redock the tank on the station and drop the smaller rockets off and hopefully deorbit those and leave the large tank attached to the station. Then I can use the large orange tank as fuel for other things if I so need them.

Thanks all! So far I definitely have been enjoying the game. I'm going to be running another test of my SSTO Plane, preparing for sending Kerbals up into short orbits and practicing EVA, as well as preparing for a small space station in orbit. Hope for luck

This has to be one of the best community forums for a game that I've seen. Very little trolls, everyone is super helpful no matter the issue and ideas are always free flowing. I love that. Hi, I've been lurking for a quite a long time here and finally registered an account and bought the game and lurked some more. So far I've landed on the Mun, sent a few probes into orbit around the Mun and Kerbin, have a probe orbiting Kerbin destined for Duna and recently started experimentation with space planes (Poor Jebediah). Last night I successfully made a few orbits in a modified stock Aeris 4A but unfortunately didn't have quite enough fuel and my trajectory was wrong (rookie mistake of not accounting for atmospheric drag) so I splashed down in the ocean just west of land (again, poor Jebediah). Anyway, I've been lurking and reading a lot of posts and can't wait for 0.23. Thought I'd finally drop a line and formally introduce myself. Hope to be a regular poster here.