Ship Request: stock space shuttle

[astropapi1]

No, not yet.

Soon... tencharacters

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This was my shot at the shuttle.. Works great, looks good accept for the massive rockomax on the orange tank

Is your Printscreen button missing??

[iDan122]

Is your Printscreen button missing??

He doesn't know about F1 and image hosting.

[TheTsar52]

I think the poorer image quality make it look like an '80s shuttle launch broadcasting. Looks more vintage.

[Giggleplex777]

He doesn't know about F1 and image hosting.

Read his sig.

[astropapi1]

Read his sig.

I... I just don't understand it. Why does he go through the hassle of taking pictures of his screen and then uploading them like that when he could take high-def pictures with his own computer?

[Giggleplex777]

I... I just don't understand it. Why does he go through the hassle of taking pictures of his screen and then uploading them like that when he could take high-def pictures with his own computer?

He said something about snapchating KSP to his friend or something like that.

[iDan122]

Read his sig.

It's actually more complicated to take a photo with your camera, connect camera to pc, transfer photo and upload it than to just take a screenshot and upload it o imgur...

[Giggleplex777]

It's actually more complicated to take a photo with your camera, connect camera to pc, transfer photo and upload it than to just take a screenshot and upload it o imgur...

Not my problem.

[iDan122]

Not my problem.

Not mine too, he can take photos with his cr***y camera if he wants to, we don't care

[astropapi1]

Guys, we're going off-topic.

[steffen_anywhere]

Well...

I've attempted that before..."Catastrophic Failure"

The only acceptable attempt without specific shuttle parts was with KW Rocketry. It never quite made it to orbit... And it also sucked at gliding. But it wasn't all that bad for an almost stock try (I actually used SRBs). I'll find some pictures and post them later.

I now resided to Tyberdyne's Shuttle Parts to build a proper shuttle (I know, not quite a design challenge, but then again, the real shuttle did have very high gimbal engines, so there's no reason that we don't imo).

Also, part of the shuttle was the idea that it was carried to space by two HUGEA** Solid rocket boosters.

In stock parts, there are no such boosters, and Liquid fuelled boosters always seemed so lame in connection to the shuttle...

That being said, I highly appreciate looking at stock shuttle designs, having attempted these before and knowing how hard it is to make it work.

[Bartybum]

Not mine too, he can take photos with his cr***y camera if he wants to, we don't care

Obviously you do care, seeing as you brought it up in the first place.

[p331083]

With 0.23 we can make shuttle more of a reality now

How exactly? What does .23 change? Reverts pylons back to their old elasticity?;

[Giggleplex777]

[iDan122]

How exactly? What does .23 change? Reverts pylons back to their old elasticity?;

Nice shuttle!

And no, it doesn't, what it allows is to omit thrust on specific engines thus making thrust balance much easier.

[GusTurbo]

.23 will also allow us to make SRBs burn for longer, which will make them more useful.

[Bvemne]

I think the poorer image quality make it look like an '80s shuttle launch broadcasting. Looks more vintage.

It's silly, but I think I like it. I kinda want to add some news headline to go with it.

Regarding shuttles, I managed to get this thing into orbit:

Fuel-wise, it didn't actually take much.

It's just that getting to orbit was... harrowing. The stability is so awful, I had to add some radial engines on an action group just to keep the thing from flipping.

[Terh]

Buran.

Stock.

Shuttle.

Hard to fly at first.

[Yukon0009]

Don't necropost.

[problemecium]

Too late~!

It's amazing what eight months of KSP updates will do for stuff like this. I do wonder, though, what motivated Terh to pick this thread when there are already like 29 threads for stock shuttles.... oh yes, he just joined.

Welcome to the forum Terh!

[KerbalTween]

On 5/13/2013 at 4:51 PM, Djsnowboy267 said:

Just a quick word of advice: If you are going to make a space shuttle in KSP, make it with engines on both sides, and try to get over the fact that it doesn't look like the real space shuttle. I used two orange tanks on either side (actually just two half orange tanks, because I think they look better and help avoid overheat) with two large SRBs on either side. I know it can get to atleast 100 km but haven't quite fully tested it yet. An orbiting ship with a robotic core, a fuel and RCS tank, and a docking port, and you can dock the shuttle and refuel enough to get to Mun. Unfortunately, I had no testing for landing in low gravity planets with the engines, and I ended up crashing.

You can Make a Shuttle That Looks Like the real One You Only Need to Clip In Tanks In the front and canards