Missing rovers.

[deathchicken]

I leave my rover on one of Kerbin's moons go do something else. Then I go to the tracking station to pilot my rover, but it's gone. I can't figure out what happened.

[Deadpangod3]

Did you hit end flight?

[deathchicken]

I had to, return to space center was greyed out.

[RawChicken]

If you ended flight, you delete the vessel, so your rover is not there any more.

Also, if you have a carefully planned space station and you "end flight" by mistake, its gone, so be careful.

Also, you sometimes have "space senter" grayed out, this is cause of several reasons.

You could have the throttle up, even if it is at 1%and you dont have any engines at all, it will force you to get it to 0%, by pressingX for example..

Also, if the rover is moving on a surface, it wount let you g to space center. Make sure you stop the rover completely.

Also, when time accelerating you cannot go to space center, so also, make sure you are not time accelerating.

So, when getting this button greyed out, hit "X" (close throttle), "B" (brakes) and spam the "," (- time acceleate) key.

[deathchicken]

Thank you. I figured out about the ship being deleted, but not the other stuff.

[RawChicken]

Yes, it is a bit tricky. It should tell you why you cant return to ksc imo..

[Blackstar]

Fear of hitting 'end flight' by mistake is one of the reasons that I urge everyone to make routine backup copies of their persistence file.

[BaneOfPilots]

Or quicksave every few minutes or when you reach a stepping stone. Press F5 a few times to quicksave and hold F9 to load the last quicksave.

[bretzle]

I installed a plugin that allows you to lock your flight (covers the end flight button) and has a button off to the side to unlock the flight. I installed it after carefully putting together a space station piece by piece and before going to bed hit end flig-- shhhhhiznit. I'll try to find it and post it here.

[bretzle]

Found it. http://sesau.ca/ksp/

[RawChicken]

Awesome!! Very very useful!!