Shuttle docking in the dark: a tragic KSP story

[Oicani]

So I made two shuttles and decided to try and dock them.

The first one started draining fuel from just one side, got unbalanced and would spin like mad, so my orbit was ****, inclined and not perfectly circular. Plus, I couldn't even deorbit it properly. An excellent excuse for rescuing Jeb.

After the whole boring part, we're less than 200m away from Orbiter I. Orbiter II starts the approach operations.

Look at how close we are!

We go parallel, and we achieve docking!

Sadly, at this point, I made the mistake to activate physwarp. To cut it short, it separated each part of both ships individually and threw them all away from the sun at 18c.

Luckily, though, the game had autosaved on that cockpit screenshot. Woop!

We dock again, this time better positioned for the deorbit procedures.

And this time, no physwarp.

Since our priority is getting Jeb back to Kerbin, we switch the pilots.

Unexpectedly, we can't use only one ship to decelerate! The ship just spins in place. We also find out that we are in an escape trajectory out of Kerbin, going directly into the sun! ffs, cthulhu

We get Bill to leave his cockpit and hang on to the ladder. We're decoupling!

We're not going fast enough, and Bill decides to let go and try to get to the (now 60km away) abandoned shuttle. Noooo!

At the last second, we manage to close our trajectory and we'll now fall towards Kerbin after getting to our 3mi km high Ap. Once we're past it, we start burning retrograde nonstop.

Just one problem. We forgot about reentry.

The atmosphere hits us hard, and most of our ship dissolves as we go deeper into the thick atmosphere.

Jeb fights bravely, but nature prevails this time. This is the last image received from the cockpit's video feed:

rip jeb

[The Destroyer]

Wow... i dunno what to say!

[KAO]

interesting.... I don't believe I've seen this docking mod before, it doesn't look like the two in the add-ons section

what is it called? and who made it?

[LaydeeDem]

interesting.... I don't believe I've seen this docking mod before, it doesn't look like the two in the add-ons section

what is it called? and who made it?

Its called a .cfg edit.

[Cthulufaic]

Wow... i dunno what to say!

I do know what to say, PLEASE SPOILER YOUR IMAGES! It nearly crashed Chrome when I opened this page, so for the sake of my computer please put spoilers around your images.

[Oicani]

It's Erkle's.