Everyone likes to talk about all the times their missions went well and were successful. I've only been dabbling in KSP for the past few days after getting it months ago. I'm not skilled enough to successfully pull off an orbit, even after four revisions of my ship's design, but I have had magnificent failures. My first try, I forgot to separate the stages, so my parachute activated at launch. You can guess where that led to. But, since I had Jebediah on board, who everyone thinks is awesome, I decided to bail out. Among all the explosions and freed solid boosters, Jeb leapt out of the spacecraft and fell to the ground, bouncing and narrowly avoiding the destruction. He was unharmed. On my third try, I forgot to add radial decouplers to my tall boosters, so they were dragging me down. I decided to try an EVA report while my course was set to peak at about 30 km and then fall again. Jeb fell off of the capsule. He caught onto one of the still-burning tall booster, dragging it off course. The G-forces pinned him there for a few seconds, but when the ship started spiraling, he was flung off. He recovered, and used his jet pack to fly back to the ship, and, luckily, he managed to hold onto the spiraling capsule long enough to get back in. He detached the boosters, sending them off into space, and burned retrograde to slow his descent, and survived, landing in the middle of the ocean. I am now a believer in Jeb. Share your experiences!
