My first orbital rendezvous

[Guest]

Finally! after hours of screwing around, i finally managed to rendezvous! I really didnt want to leave, so i hung around it for about half an hour, experimenting. Both crews wanted to EVA for high-fives, but they learned that the hatch was painted on. Thanks to Kosmo-not for his great guide!

Album here: http://imgur.com/a/GSfqd

[Richy teh space man]

Gratz!

I find orbital rendezvous to be one of the hardest things to do on KSP

[grawl]

Nice!

I find orbital rendezvous to be one of the hardest things to do on KSP

I do too ! 1° off and you\'ll pass by more than 50km of your target !

[Guest]

I did use Mechjeb, but only for precision orbits, not the actual rendezvous.

[grawl]

Rdv without mechjeb is purely suicidal :-X (in my experience ;P)

Even once I\'m in 5-10km of the craft I am rdv\'ing with, I find the 'Relative velocity' auto-orientation and all the gauges quite useful to \'feel\' how I am in relation to the other ship.

But when around 1km from the craft, it finally gets easier, relative movement to it being more 'natural'.

[Guest]

Took me a few F9\'s but i didn\'t use any Mechjeb info. Was quite hard.