Question about hitting esc to revert a mission

[jonpfl]

All

Is there a penalty to hitting escape and starting a mission over in mid flight?  Curious as it makes it seem like cheating.  If no penalty, is it something most people don't do?

Thx

jonpfl

[Kerbart]

It's as much cheating as putting a bucket inside your sandcastle to make it stronger. Unless you're in a competition with strict rules, no one really cares.

There's also many cases where reversing is unequivocally "legit":

• You're building a craft and at the launch pad realizing, because you took out a part, KSP decided to shuffle up your staging order
• And after fixing that, KSP decided to put crew back in your craft that's supposed to launch crewless (because it's an unwieldy space station without abort facilities)
• While adding a maneuver node, KSP decides that it's actually "time warp here" and by the time you've stopped it, you've missed the window for a rendez-vous or circularization
• The kraken strikes
• Etc 

[Vanamonde]

How could there be a penalty? If you revert the flight, it never happened.

[qzgy]

I do it all the time. No real penalty, unless its a self imposed one on career.