THIS... this right here.. is why I love KSP

[wossname]

By far, this is the most epic set of missions I've done so far.

Grab an A-class asteroid, haul it back to Kerbin, drill a hole in it, extract the precious fuels.

http://imgur.com/gallery/Ihelsfo

This makes career mode my favourite way to play

4 flights:

Flight 1 to capture and return the asteroid to a horribly eccentric and inclined orbit of Kerbin.

Flight 2 to almost fix the broken orbit.

Flight 3 to make the orbit perfect 120km circular with 0.000 eccentricity. (This is the smaller ship hanging off the side of the mining rig).

Flight 4 to bring Bob and the mining gear up to exploit the valuable minerals!

This whole set of missions cost about 800,000 to undertake. No fatalities, this was a good day for Kerbalkind.

Oh, and I called it "Texako Station" .

Edited June 4, 2015 by wossname

[luizopiloto]

[RocketPilot573]

http://i.imgur.com/CGY5FK8.png

[wossname]

Nice! Those are great. How did you land them, Klaws and parachutes? If so, how many chutes do you need?

[luizopiloto]

for a class A one... 6 chutes and 2 drogues will do the work...

[wossname]

Sounds like fun. I'll try it once it's been drained of resources.

[Netskimmer]

I haven't tried to mine an asteroid yet so I'm sure this is a stupid question but here goes. Wouldn't it be easier to just take the equipment to the asteroid and mine it where it is rather than drag the whole thing all the way back to Kerbin?

[LittleBlueGaming]

I haven't tried to mine an asteroid yet so I'm sure this is a stupid question but here goes. Wouldn't it be easier to just take the equipment to the asteroid and mine it where it is rather than drag the whole thing all the way back to Kerbin?

If you don't capture the asteroid, it's likely to keep taking you further and further from Kerbin as you mine, and then there's the cost of hauling the ore/fuel back and forth over and over.

If you intercept an asteroid early on, it really doesn't take much to divert it into a stable orbit.

[Netskimmer]

Makes sense.

[AbacusWizard]

I've only tried this with a class B asteroid so far, but it seemed like it took more fuel to get it into a stable orbit than I was able to refine out of it.

[FleshJeb]

http://i.imgur.com/CGY5FK8.png

Please tell me that rover is named Atlas.

[OddFunction]

I really wanna do this but I keep hearing that asteroids cause the kraken

[MalfunctionM1Ke]

These.... accidental Screenshots that turn out so darn beautiful

This one was taken a long time ago.

So was this.

Edited June 5, 2015 by MalfunctionM1Ke