ChrisMayhew

Could you not try something like vimeo.com see if they let you upload longer videos?

I had an absolute nightmare attempting to dock my first every two ships.. Think it took me a good 3 hours to get close enough and even then I kept floating round each other. Now I seem to be much quicker at it and I reckon I've only docked about 8 things in my total playtime.

Since suffering from this recently I have always put a square solar panel or two on every craft and I have also used the spare battery method you mentioned.. Nothing worse than sending something up and forgetting about power and it becomes useless.. haha I did however manage to put a square panel on and was very unlucky in the fact that it was completely pointing away from the sun so it would have took me ages of speeding up time to get any bit of power back.. lol

Ah thanks for the help! I've yet to use the Hitchhiker pod with more than one Kerbal so I didn't have multiple in it

Hello I've just setup a Science lab around Minmus.. And I've put two kerbals inside it.. Is it not possible to remove the Kerbals once they are inside?? Any help would be great! Thanks

I didn't have a Kerbal with me unfortunately I would have gave it a little push Just docked the piece with my station!

Haha.. Didn't think of that! Silly me.. Cheers for the suggestion.. Maybe if I do it again by accident I'll remember..

I had a feeling they might, But I could only go at 50x so it was going to take me ages! haha Thanks for the suggestions but I decided to cut my losses and re-launch the ship.. Just put it into a stable orbit with the panels charging the batteries haha!

Hey I'm sending another part up to my station.. clever me positioned it in a stupid way and the little solar panels I put on aren't getting any sun.. So I ran out of elec while I was waiting to catch up to my station.. Is it possible to rotate the ship? I've no Kerbal onboard to try and give it a little push either Any ideas? lol

They should automatically dock with each other once they are close enough? I guess I should have read it twice because I'm getting confused.. haha

Thanks! I'll give that mod a go I've just managed to get my 3rd section up and docked but now I am going to wait until i unlocked the multi-attach point thingy because my station is becoming a bit long.. lol

Yeah that could have been a problem, It was placed roughly in the middle of the final part?

Thanks Hopefully i'll get better at it as I take more parts up and connect them Thanks, Yeah I felt good after I docked it!

Well with the combination of what people said and the targetting mod suggested and probably a bit of luck I managed to successfully dock my two parts together! Now onto my 3rd stage!

Thanks, I'll give it a go and see how I get on. Thanks for the replies everyone, I'll send up another piece today and have another go with all your suggestions!

Thanks I'll give it a try tomorrow morning and see how I get on! I'm fairly new to KSP but I love it!

I finally managed to get a successful rendezvous with the first section of my space station however I couldn't get the docking ports lined up Through trying and failing badly I ran out of RCS and had to basically abandon the mission I had set the docking port as my target and was trying to use RCS to get lined up but I just seemed to spin around the station all the time.. I can only assume I'm doing something wrong? I'm not using RCS at the right times or using it too much? Any tips on how to line up the docking ports easier? Thanks, Chris

Thank you for your reply! I figured obviously I was doing something completely wrong because I was just going round it like some weird orbit.. I checked out a YouTube video again and figured out that I should be burning retrograde to kill the velocity but your reply explains it all more! Thanks i'll give it a go later!

Thanks for the reply, I have RCS and fuel with a small engine on board the piece I am trying to get near my main section. I guess I just have to try and be patient!

I wish I could even get my first steps of my station built! I've got my first part in space and my second part is 500 to 700m away and I just can't seem to bring them close to join them together! Just seem to be going round it all the time! lol

Thanks for the tips guys! Since the last update it's really got me back into this game and I am getting a lot better at building crafts (Still some fall short of orbit, i need to work on figuring out how much thrust i need for the weight!) and managed to get another ship into the Mun orbit to rescue my poor Kerbal.. I sent an unmanned ship with a module for him to get into when I manage to match orbits so he can RCS across! Or that's the plan anyway.. I should also have enough fuel to get him back home

Thank you to you I just managed to get my first space ship into Mun's orbit! My only problem is fuel for a return journey!! I'm running a little light! Poor Jebediah may have to sit for a while waiting to be rescued but he is however able to send me some Science back from Mun's orbit Cheers!