New Dan Kerman

[Dan Kerman]

Just a quick hello to my new and fellow Kermanians...  Always been a space flight NASA fan since I was a little kid. I still remember watching Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on TV for the first moon landing. Wrote my high school physics paper on NASA moon project. A- Now watch NASA TV on a regular basis...  And now Kerbal!

I'm going thru the training scenarios..  "To the Mun" right now..  stuck on one of the concepts of orbital insertion but I have some forum reading to do as I'm sure there is a better explanation.

Happy Orbiting!

Dan Kerman

[Geonovast]

Howdy @Dan Kerman

The tutorials are not the best.  If you can't find what you're looking for, just ask!  Someone will be along to help in no time.

Happy crashing!

[tater]

Welcome!

The Science forum usually has links to livestreams of current (real life) launches, too, which is always useful (particularly for non_NASA launches).

https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/forum/44-science-spaceflight/

 

[Dan Kerman]

After watching a couple of tutorials..  their not bad really...  they get you going in the right direction.. I saw what I was doing wrong. My trans Muna trajectory wasn't bringing me in close enough to get Muna SOI. Once I adjusted for that, I was able to easily get Muna orbital insertion completed. That's todays accomplishment...  tomorrow, Muna landing. Or maybe later... today!

[tater]

The hardest thing is probably orbital rendezvous.

[RealKerbal3x]

Welcome, @Dan Kerman!

9 hours ago, tater said:

The hardest thing is probably orbital rendezvous.

Yep. It took me WEEKS and a lot of grief to figure that out. I had to make a thread to get help:

 

Edited November 30, 2018 by RealKerbal3x

[Dan Kerman]

Only took me four tries to get stick a landing...  definitely takes practice. Managed to depart and return to Kerbal on the second try. It's coming along. Tried the orbital rendezvous twice...  so far, going to need more practice. I got the orbital inclination transition but adjusting orbital height to meet the other ship...  not so much. My wife thinks I'm nerding out but that's my natural state.

[Vexillar]

Welcome @Dan Kerman!

Rendezvous and docking were the hardest for me, too, at first.  Landing took a bit of trial and error to get the fuel loads right, but like you I was a kid during the Apollo programme, so some of that childhood fascination for spacecraft seems to help in eyeballing a workable design.  Oh - and that I grew up with Lunar Lander as one of the few computer games of its time.

[Dan Kerman]

I saw a version of Luna Lander recently...  it was fun to play tho simplistic and 2d. Had to take what you could get with a 80386 on DOS 3.0

 

[Kerbinchaser]

On 11/29/2018 at 11:19 AM, Dan Kerman said:

Just a quick hello to my new and fellow Kermanians...  Always been a space flight NASA fan since I was a little kid. I still remember watching Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on TV for the first moon landing. Wrote my high school physics paper on NASA moon project. A- Now watch NASA TV on a regular basis...  And now Kerbal!

I'm going thru the training scenarios..  "To the Mun" right now..  stuck on one of the concepts of orbital insertion but I have some forum reading to do as I'm sure there is a better explanation.

Happy Orbiting!

Dan Kerman

Welcome to the Forums! 

As Geonvast said, the in-game tutorials aren't the best, so check out the "tutorials" section of the forum in case you have any questions.  

[Dan Kerman]

Thanks for the suggestions...  working on docking atm. Managed to dock in the training scenario on the 5th try or so. Wanted to rip my eyeballs out! Back at it this afternoon.

 

[Chel]

Oooh, new user. Welcome!