Poor bob

[Wizard Kerbal]

     Bob launched on top a Venturer 1 rocket, bringing the newest technology we had available. He flew to Eve’s moon, gilly to further our understanding of our solar system. Due to poor calculations, his craft is 50 m/s short of returning to kerbin. He has been in space for 161 days, and his mission was expected to end in 250. Command keeps running “simulations” to try to find an escape root. They thought he could push his ship the extra mile with his RCS, but that ended flinging him further away. Transmitting his data, he paved the way for Gemini 2, which was only supposed to get into orbit, but do to an improved launch vehicle now should have the deltaV to go to eve and back, no transfer window needed!

[jost]

Time for a rescue mission 

[Wizard Kerbal]

6 hours ago, jost said:

Time for a rescue mission 

And this time I’ll use a nuclear engine!

But I do have a couple plans to get Bob’s ship home, for the Xbox achievement, lol

[Vanamonde]

Meh. I've left a crew stranded on Bop since version 0.16. Your guy is getting off easy. 

[jimmymcgoochie]

If you have fuel for the EVA jet pack it should be fairly easy to get a Kerbin intercept, then all you need to do is send up a rescue mission to grab, catch or otherwise insert the Kerbal into a craft that can survive re-entry at interplanetary speeds.

[MrWookie2U]

Bro, just launch a missile at him. End his misery. I vote solid rocket (probe) at 1k kpm (kerbals per minute)

 

bye bob, next is Kevin. He will do better or suffer his cousin’s fate 

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[Vagrant203]

On 1/14/2021 at 2:24 PM, MrWookie2U said:

Bro, just launch a missile at him.

1. What about the science data?

2. If you can hit the target that far out, it wouldn't take much more to make it a rescue rather than an execution.

3. Rude.

[MrWookie2U]

3 hours ago, Vagrant203 said:

1. What about the science data?

2. If you can hit the target that far out, it wouldn't take much more to make it a rescue rather than an execution.

3. Lol whatevs

1: the science you receive is “what happens when bob goes BOOM”

2:just blow up the planet if you think you can’t hit him

3: Science!! And boom

 

(4: why have a spare missile when you can blow it up instead, or you could launch it at the mountain semi close by)

 

and finally. What kind of KSP player is concentrating on saving kerbals instead of sending them to the core of the sun

(is the “sun” in KSP named anything? Or is it just the sun?)

 

(no offense, but I love making ships blow up, I normally make probes for this tho)

 

 

[Spaceman.Spiff]

On 1/15/2021 at 8:59 PM, MrWookie2U said:

sun” in KSP named anythin

Kerbol 

[Vagrant203]

23 hours ago, Spaceman.Spiff said:

Kerbol 

This is a fan designation, a portmanteau (mashup) of Kerbal and Sol. The game simply calls it The Sun.

[Spaceman.Spiff]

45 minutes ago, Vagrant203 said:

This is a fan designation, a portmanteau (mashup) of Kerbal and Sol. The game simply calls it The Sun.

No. There is a science blurb on Eeloo that specifically mentions Kerbol. It's canon.

[Vagrant203]

K. Never been to Eeloo, but I've taken plenty of readings in The Sun's SoI and they always say "The Sun."

Are you sure that's not Community Science or whatever the mod is that lets fans submit science reports?

EDIT: Slightly misremembered this entry in the wiki, my bad.

https://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Kerbol

Edited January 19, 2021 by Vagrant203