It's been 10 hours since the launch of the Phi Zeroth chapter of the Kerbal Space Program, and we've made amazing progress. We've successfully put three manned vehicles into orbit and returned them! Well, the vehicles, anyway. Well, 2/3 of them. Currently Caldos Kerman is out on, shall we say, an extended EVA in orbit around Kerbin at 86km, while his ship, the Please Don't Explode II, holds course at a very, very different orbit. I'm afraid he was out sick during jetpack training, so it's entirely his fault. We'll rescue him once we feel like he's learned his lesson. On another note, we've also successfully executed an orbital rendezvous in order to rescue some other sad sacks on the three-man orbiter mission Please Don't Explode Again, which ran out of fuel burning retrograde to return home. Since there was an empty seat (Our third man had decided to test the theory that he could survive an EVA re-entry to Kerbin*), Jebediah Kerman successfully EVA'd from one orbiter to the other mostly just for fun and to bring over some snacks. After realizing that proper planning would have involved sending only one Kerbal and two empty seats on the rescue mission, and then trying to physically ram the stranded vehicle out of its orbit and failing, we remembered it was equipped with a full RCS system and could thrust retrograde long enough to re-enter the kerbosphere. Everyone made it home safely, and they all had a story to tell. All in all, I would say our experience now fully justifies a Mun mission. Onward and upward! *Footnote: EVA atmospheric re-entry is surprisingly survivable, despite the scary-looking flames. The surface impact, not so much.