Think again about leaving kerbals stranded

[oggylt]

today I been watching youtube and went along csauce video called if, and in one part of it he told that NASA wasn't 100% sure that Neil and Buzz will get back to earth so they would be stranded with no hope of returning, so the worst case speech was prepared. Now watch this and think about Kerbals you left behind.

http://youtu.be/QBK3QpQVnaw?t=9m59s

[thes50]

today I been watching youtube and went along csauce video called if, and in one part of it he told that NASA wasn't 100% sure that Neil and Buzz will get back to earth so they would be stranded with no hope of returning, so the worst case speech was prepared. Now watch this and think about Kerbals you left behind.

http://youtu.be/QBK3QpQVnaw?t=9m59s

I never leave a Kerbal behind, I always find some way for them to end their lives with dignity (usually by crashing into something).

[TelluriumCrystal]

In the entire history of my space program, no kerbal has ever been left behind. All high risk missions are robotically controlled, and any manned missions always have contingency plans.

[Malachai]

Well, I'm irishing up my coffee now...

[MBobrik]

I never leave kerbals behind

[zarakon]

I consider Kerbals to be only slightly less expendable than fuel

[AlternNocturn]

I never leave Kerbals behind. They're too adorable and squishy to be left to die.

[The Jedi Master]

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"Today, the director of the Jedi Space Program has decided to close the bases on the Mun and Minmus and find a way to bring the Kerbals back to Kerbin."

[-RanZ-]

I try not to strand kerbals, if they make it to their destination alive I try to bring them back.

[SecondGuessing]

What kind of sick person leaves Kerbals stranded?! Just because they're green! Racist.

[Karriz]

I don't leave them behind, they just set up a permanent colony/space station.

[Tw1]

If a Kerbal is going on a one way trip, he will know it from the start. Otherwise, I definitely will retrieve them.

Fortunately, so far, this has only been an something I've had to do on the Mun and Minmus....

[anarkhon]

I never leave kerbals behind.Always have a multiple level rescue system on ships and planes too.

[erkha343]

You wont be able to rescue all Kerbals one day, one day Kerbals will need life support

As you can see in my ribbons, I have lost some Kerbals, RIP Kermans.

Edited May 21, 2013 by erkha343

[Daze]

A true Kerbal would risk other 3 Kerbals to save one!

[Doc Anderson]

I am now, and always have been ... your little green guinea pig. The needs of the many (Kerbals) outweigh the needs of the one (Kerbal).

[ThePsuedoMonkey]

The first Kerbal I had to leave behind; before I learned quicksave/load there was an error during a SOI change that caused a suborbital trajectory into Kerbol. Without enough dV to change that, Jenlorf sat back and waited for the inevitable. Every kerbal remembers him kindly, as he is now part of the fuel that washes them in comfort, bathes their food in photons, and energizes their solar panels. They look up from the launch pad in the mornings to glance at his new home, knowing that he sustains them from afar, and begs them to push farther into the final frontier.

[aven17]

I currently have 2 Kerbals upside-down in a canned rover on the Mun. Due to recent budget cuts however, manned missions have been scrapped. There are scientists working on some sort of chair mechanism attached to a that would allow for a less expensive rescue attempt, but when that technology will be available is anyone's guess.

[GOOMH]

All my kerbals have either died, landed safely, or were stranded before EVA and persistence. So I'm not feeling all that bad right now though I would love to mount a rescue mission sometime.

[paulram16]

I watched that video, terrible to say the least, it was to dangerous and i cannot believe that Nasa would do such a thing...

[wolfedg]

Just how are we supposed to rescue kerbals that just happened to land on places like Eve? I hear it's harder to launch from Eve than Kerbin, not to mention getting a fully capable launch vehicle to the surface of Eve.

[Canopus]

Just how are we supposed to rescue kerbals that just happened to land on places like Eve? I hear it's harder to launch from Eve than Kerbin, not to mention getting a fully capable launch vehicle to the surface of Eve.

It is perfectly possible. Scott Manley did it in a single launch from Kerbin before docking was implemented.

[karolus10]

I never left Kerbals behind, I just end mission and order Mr. Scotty to beam them back .

EDIT_1: Anyway, it's a good way to clear roleplayer conscience (if you had one).

Edited May 21, 2013 by karolus10

[Blackstar]

I watched that video, terrible to say the least, it was to dangerous and i cannot believe that Nasa would do such a thing...

To be fair, I don't think anyone in the space program was fooling themselves that it wasn't dangerous, especially not after Apollo One.

They were as sure as they could be that it would work, but it had never been done before, and you can never be 100% sure about anything.

[The Jedi Master]

To be fair, I don't think anyone in the space program was fooling themselves that it wasn't dangerous, especially not after Apollo One.

They were as sure as they could be that it would work, but it had never been done before, and you can never be 100% sure about anything.

Slightly off-topic: Why did NASA make the FIRST FLIGHT IN THE PROGRAM manned?