TEMPEST_114 Posted Sunday at 01:20 AM Share Posted Sunday at 01:20 AM I'm building my first Interplanetary ship - going to Eve and back and I'm trying to build is somewhat 'properly' i.e. with habitation, hydroponics etc and a gravity wheel for the long trip, but as the crew will eventually need to separate from the 'mothership' to return to Kerbal, that will require the command module, small fuel tank, engine, RCS and of course a heatshield. But with all that attached to the back of the command module, how 'realistically' are my little Kerbals supposed to move from the command module to the other compartments without being able to pull a Wanda and handwave the whole thing away? Just wondering. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Kerbin Posted Sunday at 02:10 AM Share Posted Sunday at 02:10 AM Hmmm. Maybe imagine it somehow has a hatch, like this mod Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEMPEST_114 Posted Sunday at 02:36 AM Author Share Posted Sunday at 02:36 AM 23 minutes ago, Mr. Kerbin said: Hmmm. Maybe imagine it somehow has a hatch, like this mod Thanks. I guess I'm 'worrying over nothing' right? I guess the 'correct' answer is to have it built and stay in LKO and have a shuttle move the crew in/out... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arbsoup Posted Sunday at 02:41 AM Share Posted Sunday at 02:41 AM I think Connected Living Spaces is the mod that tries to handle all this? But I never sweat it — I've got way too much else to worry about, I just roleplay the bits I enjoy and slip past all the other stuff. I'd have thought the normal "legitimate" approach would be to dock the return vehicle to the mothership by the top, so you have a docking-port connection from the capsule directly to the mothership's habitat module or something; i.e. if what you have now is command pod / return fuel+engines / mothership, you could spin the whole return vehicle around to get return fuel+engines / command pod / mothership. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEMPEST_114 Posted Sunday at 02:44 AM Author Share Posted Sunday at 02:44 AM Just now, arbsoup said: I think Connected Living Spaces is the mod that tries to handle all this? But I never sweat it — I've got way too much else to worry about, I just roleplay the bits I enjoy and slip past all the other stuff. I'd have thought the normal "legitimate" approach would be to dock the return vehicle to the mothership by the top, so you have a docking-port connection from the capsule directly to the mothership's habitat module or something; i.e. if what you have now is command pod / return fuel+engines / mothership, you could spin the whole return vehicle around to get return fuel+engines / command pod / mothership. LOL, yeah, I'm getting bogged down for sure; I've been designing this ship for the best part of a week, and I'm still at the drawing board. Oh, like the Apollo CM and Lunar Lander? Have it attached at the front, backwards, and detach when the job is done? Yeah, that could work... spoils the aesthetics a bit and will spoilt my Kerbals view out the front! lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arbsoup Posted Sunday at 02:47 AM Share Posted Sunday at 02:47 AM (edited) 3 minutes ago, TEMPEST_114 said: LOL, yeah, I'm getting bogged down for sure; I've been designing this ship for the best part of a week, and I'm still at the drawing board. Oh, like the Apollo CM and Lunar Lander? Have it attached at the front, backwards, and detach when the job is done? Yeah, that could work... spoils the aesthetics a bit and will spoilt my Kerbals view out the front! lol Yeah, exactly, or like this Constellation/Orion thing. Or to be really sleek about it, you can have a return spaceplane docked to the side, all aerodynamic-like. Edited Sunday at 02:48 AM by arbsoup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEMPEST_114 Posted Sunday at 02:51 AM Author Share Posted Sunday at 02:51 AM (edited) @arbsoup That's cool! Thanks for that - I wasn't aware of that design at all. But... YOU HAD ME AT 'SPACEPLANE'... LOL Edited Sunday at 02:51 AM by TEMPEST_114 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheKspEngineer Posted Sunday at 06:41 AM Share Posted Sunday at 06:41 AM A very cool soviet spacecraft called TKS also had a heat shield which could be passed through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
averageksp Posted Sunday at 08:29 AM Share Posted Sunday at 08:29 AM I think it goes through the heatshield if you are using FreeIVA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheKspEngineer Posted Sunday at 12:32 PM Share Posted Sunday at 12:32 PM 4 hours ago, averageksp said: I think it goes through the heatshield if you are using FreeIVA sorry for off topic, but how do you embed ilnks to be pictures? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
averageksp Posted Sunday at 02:11 PM Share Posted Sunday at 02:11 PM 1 hour ago, TheKspEngineer said: sorry for off topic, but how do you embed ilnks to be pictures? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanamonde Posted Sunday at 07:29 PM Share Posted Sunday at 07:29 PM 6 hours ago, TheKspEngineer said: sorry for off topic, but how do you embed ilnks to be pictures? If you use Imgur.com you can simply copy their BBCode link directly into your post with no additional formatting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheKspEngineer Posted Monday at 05:25 AM Share Posted Monday at 05:25 AM No I mean the ones in his signature where you can click on it and it goes to github Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEMPEST_114 Posted Monday at 11:02 AM Author Share Posted Monday at 11:02 AM 5 hours ago, TheKspEngineer said: No I mean the ones in his signature where you can click on it and it goes to github Time for your own thread I believe. Hijacking threads isn't good form. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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