My first space station docking!

[BeefTenderloin]

I was looking around the addons section of our forum, and I discovered something that piqued my interest - Erkle's Docking Mod.

Now, as any self respecting kerbonaut would do, I downloaded this, and whacked it onto a space station, and a rocket. Here is what followed.

DOCKED!

Meanwhile, inside the pod of the shuttle... (I HAVE NO SCREENSHOTS OF THIS - SORRY (<font size="0">TL;DR I UNDOCKED, NOTICED I HADN'T ADDED PARACHUTES, THEN REDOCKED... JUST READ THE STORY.))

<font size="2"> Bill - "And we're undocked. Damn, that was a scary mission."

Jorrim - "WHY AM I HERE?! I HATE ROCKETS!"

Bill - "Jebediah, why are you staring at the control panel?"

*Jeb shuffles over to bill*

Jeb - "<font size="0">There are no parachutes on this thing."

<font size="2">Bill - "<font size="+1"> WHAT?!<font size="2">"

Jeb - "Shhh. Just follow me."

Jorrim - "G...g..guys? Why are we redocking?

Jeb - "Just enjoying the view Jorry."

Bill - "Yeah... The view."

Jorrim - "It's too high up! What if we fall?!"

Jeb - "Did you even listen in training? Anyway-I'm going to go and get some fresh air."

*Jeb hops out of the pod*

Bill - "Fresh air... In space?"

(On his radio to the space station) Jeb - Hey guys, me and Bill are kinda tired, mind if we stay a while?"

Anwell - "Uh... I'll just clear that with mission command."

Anwell - "Yeah, mission command have cleared that, but what about Jorrim?"

Jeb - "Oh, him. He said he's fine, and he just wants to get back down as soon as possible."

Anwell - "Ok. Come aboard!"

*Jeb heads back to the pod*

Jeb - "Come on Bill, they want us to stay on the station for some... science?"

Bill - "Oh, heh.. o..okay."

Jorrim - "What about me?"

Jeb - "Don't worry, just press the big red button that says 'undock', then push the throttle to max for about thirty seconds, then just... enjoy the ride."

*Jeb and Bill leave and enter the space station's crewtank*

Jorrim - "Okay, just do as Jeb said... He's good at this, right? I guess it can't go wrong at all!"

MEANWHILE IN THE STATION

Jeb - "Dude, we are such d*cks... hahaha!"

Bill - "Yeah - That'll be Jorrim's first death!"

Jeb - "Let's just hope he isn't too mad at us when they regrow him!"

"Okay, time to pop these chutes... thank god I'm safe now!"

"THERE'S NO PARACHUTES! I'M GOING TO KILL YOU, JEB!"

SOME TIME LATER...

The rocket to bring home the crew.

Thunk

Try again

FINALLY

Note - During the docking, the engine of the ferry was knocked off. I had to attempt to deorbit using the station's engine... WITH the ferry docked.

Centrifuge mode - engage!

So, this was all well and good, burning whenever I happened to be pointing retrograde, however there came a point where I wasn't doing anything useful by burning retrograde, so I time warped to apoapsis. When I went out of time warp - this happened.

Edited September 16, 2012 by BeefTenderloin
Updated!

[ModernArc]

Wouldn't that be hard to get the shuttle to be pointed at the right direction? Lol, I love the dialog/chat story.

[BeefTenderloin]

It was a pain trying to get them lined up, but eventually I succeeded

[BeefTenderloin]

OP has been updated with the next part of the story

[BeefTenderloin]

190 veiws, 1 reply. Tough crowd.

shameless self bump

[Arrowstar]

Yeah, the docking part has a tendency to explore if you warp enough.

[BeefTenderloin]

unfortunately so. Come on, devs - give us docking nao

[Richy teh space man]

Gratz on the docking

[SolarMisfit]

Love the dialogue. Shame it broke during warp.