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Finally, after sending a lot of missions where I'd spent most my fuel on getting out of Kerbin's SOI, I've managed to build a space vessel capable of achieving more than 7km/s velocity. It carries 38 full tanks of fuel(34 full, including 2x1600 and 2x200, 4 with more than half their capacity and rest is standard 400; 42 tanks in total). I'm really happy as this is my first "real" space mission(all done with full throttle in order to avoid the fuel bug). Over the next days I'll do a simulation of interplanetary travel(from Kerbin to Kerbin), just like in this awesome video(altough I don't expect it to go as well): (it's awesome, go watch it now!)Here are a few screenshots. This vehicle is capable of landing on Kerbin-like planet and returning to orbit with ~400l of fuel left for orbital meeting. The biggest challenge was building the first stage that'd take my spaceship into an orbit. The ship weights >165 tons(at least that's what MechJeb says) and the rocket on the launchpad weights 940 tons(17000kN of thrust). It's also a pain to control and launching it nearly killed my PC. Took me about 5 hours to make it:) I'm ready for 0.17:D

When it's ready. We don't want it to be rushed:)

Add some boosters in such a way that they are perpendicular to the ground and launch it:)

This screenshot that you've uploaded is just hillarious. Lazy kerbal:)

The one I'll crash into first when doing an uncontrolled burn:)

I agree with bsails. Mech-Jeb could be the very last in a tech-tree based development of autopilots - starting with S.A.S and A.S.A.S we'd be able to develop better technologies and finally get mech-jeb(and all of it's functions AFTER they are researched).

I'm still trying to get my fuel station into orbit of the Mun. It'd be easier to fly to another planets with it being in place. I really like this plugin:)

Just a little update - debris appearing as pods might be a KSP issue, just had it happen to an ASAS, I'm also using mech-jeb. I'll give kethane another try now, without mech-jeb. It's a fresh 0.16 with just mech jeb(1.9.1).

I have some crazy problems with kethane. Any part I decouple becomes a command pod on the map, also visible in the tracking station. What's more, selecting such a vehicle kind of crashes the game. What am I doing wrong?

One does not simply attach a pod fuel tank to the command pod:) Thank you, I'll give it a try.

How to use the pod fuel tank with a lot of connection points? Also, where can I check my deltaV at any point during flight?

YES, sell it on Steam - Squad deserves the money they'd get on Steam.

@up I'd like to know this as well.

If there were any intelligent life forms on Mars, they'd be scared to death by this "metal" monster. Imagine you're walking around on Mars and suddenly this huge rover drops on ropes near you:O

Awesome landing! We need a "Curiosity" part pack for KSP asap:)

Wow! I think I found a ship I'd really enjoy launching! I've been looking for one that would look realistic - just like this one.

What? EVA is fully in the game. Someone probably forgot to change the color. OR... It might be because kerbals can't do much during an eva right now, developers want to add more actions.

Wow! More please! Just a little thing: Minmus is the second moon of Kerbin:) Other than that, awesome video. I\'m subscribing to you channel.

I\'m watching this movie right now:)

This is certainly looking interesting.

How is tabbing in the map view going to work? Will it switch between selected planets in range of a spaceship or all of them?

I was like 'wtf' for a moment when I saw the title:) Awesome! Keep up the good work!

Thank you! I\'ll keep an eye on this project for sure.

Making random galaxies could be possible if we had a scene switch(loading screen or something simillar) when a vessel gets far enough from a star that\'s within current 'level'. This would eliminate many technical problems I believe.

Fringe Battlestar Galactica Especially the second. I\'m sad it\'s no longer around.