If a Kerbonaut dies science is lost?

[Pirx]

Good Morning!

This is my first time writing in the KSP forums ^^

Im writing because I have a question regarding gatherinng science, yesterday I managed for the first time to make a succesful landing on the Mun in science mode, after more than 5 flights and 3 unssucesful landings (I didn't know you could reload autosaves so all in all it took me more than 3 hours of gameplay).

After making all the experiments, launching the spaceship from the moon and managing to have a reentry orbit while on the smoke of my engines (I finished with 0.3 of fuel remaining in my tanks xDDD) my command pod (equipped with a heat shield and everything) exploded on the reentry thus vaporizing the poor Valentina Kerman and all the experiments she had performed (more than 300 science in all).

I would like to know if all the science I gathered and that was stored on the command pod was lost or I will be able to perform the experiments again without the reduction for making them a second time.

¡Thanks in advance for the help!

Here you have an image of the brave and deceased Valentina

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Edited August 7, 2015 by Pirx
Answered

[Champ]

> This is my first time writing in the KSP forums ^^

Welcome !

> I would like to know if all the science I gathered and that was stored on the command pod was lost or I will be able to perform the experiments again without the reduction for making them a second time.

You will be able to perform them again, no reduction.

> Im writing because I have a question regarding gatherinng science, yesterday I managed for the first time to make a succesful landing on the Mun in science mode, after more than 5 flights and 3 unssucesful landings

Congratulations ! Great emotion on the first successfull landing ! First docking is great, too !

> After making all the experiments, launching the spaceship from the moon and managing to have a reentry orbit while on the smoke of my engines (I finished with 0.3 of fuel remaining in my tanks xDDD) my command pod (equipped with a heat shield and everything) exploded on the reentry

Strange. What was your periapsis altitude when you entered kerbin's atmosphere ?

[Glaran K'erman]

Welcome to the boards and congratulation on landing on the Mun! When I began I too did not know about qucksaving/quickloading and did the exact same thing you did just fyi.

But just to echo the above statement, yes, you can do them again no probelm with no reduction. Also as for you're reentry attempt, I am too interested in what your AP/PE was. But just a general rule I have found helpful is that 30-50km is your target PE but this depends on your AP, so 30 if your AP is lower, 50 if its in the higher range.

[Pirx]

Good Morning Champ, Glaran K'erman:

Thanks a lot for your replies, I finally managed to make succesul landings and reentries into kerbin (yesterday I managed 3 succesful missions without any new cassualties YAY!) and with the science I won I've been able to substantially improve my rockets.

In relation to the question I opneed my post with I must say that as you told me, I was able to perform the experiments again with no science reduction.

Regarding the reentry I think that I was coming in in a really acute angle, the heat shield overheated and exploded, as per the missions I performed yesterday I tried to reenter really shallow thus staying in the atmosphere more time but having less friction and also aerobreaking more (the heat shield life when I finally touched earth was 175/190 more or less)

I have other question (this time regarding ressurrected kerbonauts) but ill open another thread.

Thanks a lot for the help and the welcome

[Glaran K'erman]

Glad to be of assistance!