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Recently on the new KSP2 Suggestions and Development Discussion tab there has been a thread that caught my eye. A Tribute to KSP 1. This is not a thank you to the KSP Team, but a suggestion that a memorial or a tribute of KSP1 should be present in the game. Many suggestions have been suggested, and I decided to list these in a poll. The poll is above. If you have any other suggestions or comment, you can comment below. Notice: All voter names are private. Please feel free to vote with your opinion. And this poll will close on December 31st, 2022 at 12:00 am.

I would like to give this eulogy to probably the greatest feat of space travel engineering yet, Opportunity. From the moment you first made contact on the Martian surface, everyone knew you were destined for greatness. You were meant to last only 90 days, but you pressed on for 15 years. During that time, you collected a treasure trove of knowledge on the Red Planet - opening up new doors to science and engineering. Since that fateful day in 2018, we never gave up on you. May your contributions pave the way for more great feats in the future. "My battery is low and it's getting dark" (Opportunity's final words) If anyone else would like to pay respects, or have anything to say about Opportunity, don't hesitate to reply to this thread.

Yesterday, September 15th 2018, was a day of two endings. It was both the last day of the Delta-II, and the first anniversary of Cassini-Huygens mission completion. So, I'll put a little text-based tribute to them both, here in this thread. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Cassini-Huygens was a mission of firsts. A trailblazer. First mission to orbit Saturn. First soft-landing in the outer solar system. Weighing 6 tons when fully fuelled, it is going to be a long time before a mission of this scale is launched again. Spending 13 years (half a Saturnian year) at Saturn, it observed the changes in the Saturn system over Spring and Summer. Discovered 7 moons (6 of which are named). Took 453048 images.162 targeted flybys of Saturnian moons. 360 engine burns. 635 GB of data collected. Its ride-along sister probe Huygens made the first soft landing in the outer solar system, landing on Titan on January 15th, 2005. It discovered methane rivers and lakes on Titan. Evidence of salty, liquid water sea heated by hydrothermal vents under Enceladus. Tests of general relativity. Radio occultations of the rings, revealing their composition and particle size. Verifying spokes in the rings, first confirmed by the Voyagers. And, on September 15, 2017, it literally tasted the atmosphere of Saturn itself. 1500 km above the cloud tops, Cassini entered the Saturnian atmosphere. Struggling to keep radio contact, signal was finally lost 7:55:46 AM EDT on 15th September 2017. The spacecraft is believed to have broken up 45 seconds after loss of contact. And so, on that fateful day, the probe was united with the planet it had studied for over a decade. Ad astra, Cassini-Huygens. We will certainly miss you. The Delta-II rocket was a reliable workhorse. Launching 54 science missions for NASA, our current understanding of the solar system wouldn't have been possible without it. It launched 2001 Mars Odyssey, Dawn, Deep Impact, Genesis, Mars Phoenix, MESSENGER, NEAR-Shoemaker, both STEREO spacecraft, both MER rovers Spirit and Opportunity (Hang in there buddy!), WISE, WMAP, Spitzer Space Telescope, all 5 THEMIS spacecrafts, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, 24 GPS satellites, 60 Iridium satellites (which are now an endangered species, if you've been paying attention to Scott's science videos), the Kepler spacecraft, and so much more. Without Delta-II, we wouldn't have had any of this: (Asteroid Eros imaged by NEAR-Shoemaker) (Comet Tempel-1 imaged by Deep Impact) (Vesta imaged by Dawn) (Asteroid Mathilde imaged by NEAR-Shoemaker) (Comet Siding Spring as imaged by WISE) (CMB as measured by WMAP) (Polygonal Martian terrain as imaged by Mars Phoenix) (The sun, as imaged by one of the STEREO spacecraft) (Heinze 206 as imaged by Spitzer) (Mercury, as imaged by MESSENGER) On 15th September 2018 at 13:02 UTC, the final Delta-II launched ICESat-2 out of SLC-2W at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The mission went as planned, and earned the launch vehicle a streak of 100 successful missions in a row. Thus ended the illustrious career of the Delta-II. Ad astra, Delta-II. Goodbye, old friend. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (Feel free to add your own tributes below, in any format.) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Edit: I've decided to make this a tribute thread to other spacecraft too, as Dawn and Kepler have come to an end.

I was sad when I heard that he had died, so I made a tribute to him in KSP. I know it isn't completely accurate of perfect, but I though that if I died, I wouldn't care how I was honored so I went ahead with the mission. This is not meant to be anything except respectful. Craft Download: https://kerbalx.com/JacobJHC/John-Glenns-Rocket