You Will Not Go To Space Today - Post your fails here!

[Stahlwerk]

>>WHAMM!<<, goes the rover.

[zekes]

When I was experimenting with the Drek XII. I was firing a missile and it blew itself up. Yeah, that actually happened.

[Franklin]

My most recent Duna manned multisample return lander Base!

was a complete failure. resounding success!

Kills me. Like after taking stock of the pile the only thing they could think to do was go outside and pose for a photo. Can't keep these guys down.

edit: And the depressingly raised solar array, because that's one of the last things that still worked.

Edited November 30, 2013 by Franklin

[SRV Ron]

Gigantic rocket of 552 tons breaks the launch clamps before liftoff;

After staggering the launch clamps, 107 tons was placed into a 100x150k orbit.

[Extemporary]

An old one I found. Not sure just how old, but it has the old tower. I have no clue what I was trying to do, but it sure didn't get done this time.

[Ravenchant]

Gigantic rocket of 552 tons breaks the launch clamps before liftoff;

Pivot! Pivot!

[Zuni]

The command pod survived after that actually.

So what have you exploded today?

[relin]

Your Kerbals all seem pleased with the fireworks, too.

[Zuni]

Apparently Jebediah is infectious.

[Superfluous J]

Gigantic rocket of 552 tons breaks the launch clamps before liftoff;

Quick! Hit spacebar! You can fix this!

[Liowen]

I had one SRB on a lifter that got moved to the wrong firing order and caused me to nose dive......now I triple check staging before launch and adjust it on the pad.

[Kasuha]

-> You will not go to space today.

[TwoHedWlf]

My favorite, of mine, was a massive ship with somewhere in the region of 50 of jumbo tanks and 20+ mainsails, a few dozen boosters etc... I hit the launch button and *Pop* The decoupler at the very top fires leaving the capsule sitting there completely useless.

What a let down.

[Specialist290]

The command pod survived after that actually.

So what have you exploded today?

As previously noted, there already exists a thread for this topic. I've taken the liberty of merging this one into it.

[SRV Ron]

Quick! Hit spacebar! You can fix this!

There is insufficient thrust to launch in that position. Facts are, this rocket will get stuck in the pad if the engines are resting on it. A staggered set of clamps fixed this problem.

Then, it made orbit.

[Tw1]

Ohhh dear....

That bit's not supposed to still be there.

[jsfalconero]

This was a long time ago now (notice the "End Flight" button...) but I once had some hijinks in the VAB and decided to go with it. This was the result. Jeb did not go to space that day.

[jsfalconero]

Then there was the time I tried to imitate something I saw someone do on YouTube. Again, the results are predictable.

No one important died. Personally, I still call that a win.

[3mon]

Trying to get a pretty big atomic interplanetary ship into orbit, sometimes it works, sometimes..... Well, even Jeb got freaked out on this one ;P

Kaboom!

[numerobis]

Testing a rather large design, for some reason the Kerbals placed a big stack of orange tanks on the ground rather than in its designated spot on the rocket. And they turned the engines on.

[Whackjob]

[WillHop]

-snip-

Wha.. what in the hell happened here?!

[Keloooe_Pest]

I got a really nice trajectory to Duna... Spammed science like mad and as I came it to land, I forgot about the chutes, opened them too low and the whole thing ripped apart... Then smacked into Duna at high speed, because the top chute was a drogue... Hey, I got 1000+ science out of it!

Next thing you know, I land on Eve at 2.5m/s perfectly...

[MalfunctionM1Ke]

-snip-

Wow, this is beautiful. Like a flower blooming on mid-summer morning... drowned in Rocketfuel

[StrandedonEarth]

Launched a manned ship with a 6-pack of probes to the Jool system. Launched 2 fuel barges to follow and assembled them on the way out of Kerbin's SOI. At some point while maneuvering for the Jool burn I managed to retract the solar panels on the fuel barge and didn't notice until after I warped and F5'd. When the time came to burn I had 4 full orange tanks with 8 NVR's dead in space. (I think a facepalm smilicon is needed for times like this). Upon hearing that the fuel barge was dead, Kirk said "Aw, kerb it! Punch it, Kurt!" They made the burn for Jool regardless and have racked up tons of science.

The fuel barge won't be going to Jool today. And Kirk and Kurt won't be coming home.