I went to Minmus and back to Kerbin on my first try

[Ydoow]

Couldn\'t have felt more awesome 8)

Space planes though...that\'s a whole \'nother story.

I think I\'m on design #149 and I still can\'t make my payload rocket make orbit.

Design #143 was the breakthrough where it left the runway and stayed off the ground. Okay well technically it didn\'t \'leave\' the runway so much as fly off it, then finally lift off after flying off that mini-ledge just before the sea :-[

[togfox]

So you\'re saying that you didnt leave the ground, the ground left you. =P

[Ydoow]

And then generally the sea meets me again ;P

[samstarman5]

In kerbal rocketry, ground leaves you!