How to change mission/ship type

[XennoX]

Good day aspiring 'nauts,

So I just have a quickie, how do I change my mission/ship type? What I mean by this is the icon of the ship in the tracking station. I managed to get it right once, I launched a space station into orbit once and from the Tracking station (I think) I was able to change the icon to "station" as opposed to satellite/probe. Now I can't remember how I did this, I must note that when I did this I had recently installed MechJeb 1.9.x or so and the NovaPunch Remix Pack, but I have since removed them and installed other mods and am currently unable to do it.

Regards,

- X

[MickG]

Rightclick the controlmodule and select 'rename vessel'.

[EndlessWaves]

Right click on the command pod and choose rename ship, a window will come up that also lets you change the icon.

[Toxicterror]

and on "ships" that have no command pod?

consists out of 1 lab module, 1 small kethane scanner

want to change its name and the icon from "ship" to "debris"

[Skorpychan]

Ships without a command pod are inherently debris and can be neither controlled nor renamed. Stick a probe core on in future.

[Kasuha]

If it has a docking port, you can dock a probe core to it to rename it.

Does the lab module even work if there's no control module?