The Athena Space Station

[undragonslayer7]

aWith the impending discovery of planets, Kerbal politicians decided it would be a great time to begin researching space colonies. After 12 testing casualties and a few minutes of research on Wikipedia KASA (Kerbal Aeronautics and Space Administration) unveiled the first colony. The Athena can house a total of 53 Kerbals, 40 housing units are equipped with centrifugal gravity, has eight fuel engines and an ion engine powered by the solar panels that usually power life-support and plumbing, and the entire station has a focus on induced gravity research. It currently has 27 inhabitants and orbits at 2000 KM.

The front of Athena:

http://imgur.com/b5YgX

The captain on a routine EVA:

http://imgur.com/i258p

Requires Damned Robotics, MechJeb, Orbital Construction, and Deep Space Mission Pack.

Edited September 9, 2012 by undragonslayer7

[Apothecarian]

This looks awesome. Is it a *(@#$ to get into orbit?

[grievous056]

Every time I try to launch it, it just starts falling apart on the launchpad before I even start liftoff. It doen't even hold together long enough to use the jump drive to get to a spacedock.

Edited September 10, 2012 by grievous056

[undragonslayer7]

I never had that problem. But you could try the traditional message of adding far too many struts, or if it's the ground that's getting in the way you could build a smaller "fake" stage beneath Athena and attach launch stabilizers to the very bottom. (Important note, if you try to jump a ship still attached to stabilizers all stages attached to them will remain on the launch pad).

[undragonslayer7]

This looks awesome. Is it a *(@#$ to get into orbit?

I just teleport it using Orbital Construction. Or sometimes when I feel like not cheating I'll actually get all the parts up there in many different missions and build it in space. But I figure they accomplish the same thing, and are almost the same difficulty, one is just less time-consuming so I figure why not just teleport it?

[undragonslayer7]

Also for anyone who cares the particular station pictured in the original post was recently destroyed in a tragic mishap during a supply mission that resulted in the death of all 27 personnel.