Kerbals are monotheists and praises only one God... Primus Kerman...
Inscriptions found arround the Pyramids Shrine says the Kerbal world originated from a battle between Primus Kerman and the Kraken...
It's not ugly... It's exotic... why do you think it's ugly? ಠ_ಠ
nope... just for Laythe... had a lander on the back between the engines, and that 3 probes.. the probes in other hand was used to map all the Jool moons... using ScanSat.
You can also try built the spacecraft in orbit... launching each module on medium sized rockets... this is the method I use for interplanetary missions... specially after 1.0, when the game started to get pretty laggy with high part count crafts...