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

[Gemberkoekje]

I made it to the mun with that rocket eventually

Oh, poo.

[Icarium]

Maybe there should be a fallout shelter for the ground crew available at the same tech node as nuclear engines?

[phatbhuda]

This is what happens when you forget about setting up your final stages in your excitement to get to the Mun and back. On departure I activated what I thought was the next stage which would separate the return craft from the landing stage. Instead the entire ship came apart all at once, stranding the brave astronauts on the Mun.

Leaving the Mun FAIL by phatbhuda, on Flickr

And in a similar vein, I set a rover in to orbit of the Mun, also with a staging configuration failure. lol.

Rover FAIL by phatbhuda, on Flickr

I've since learned that adding and removing parts in the builder can drastically modify staging setups.

[Smidge204]

Forgot to cancel time warp during chute deployment.

Oopsie.

=Smidge=

[Whackjob]

[NoPanShabuShabu]

In the "You will not be going *back* to space today category:

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[SDIR]

Just today I tried to create a KSP version of the SSC Bloodhound...it ended up flipping over and crashing at 35m/s...rather disappointing I must say.

[Gemberkoekje]

So this is how helicopters work!

(Also note how this is considered a 'minor stall')

[Preliator]

Some months ago this was my first rocket:

And this was my first Mun landing

...with demo version.

[Ravenchant]

According to the flight log, a decoupler failed when the physics kicked in on the pad. Gone unnoticed...but not for long

[plaiddragon]

so, my trip to the mun:

1. get into orbit

2. orbit mun

3.crash

4.quickload, try again

5.crash with only capsule

6. notice antena is still there

7. try to transmit and realize i have no energy

8. RAGE

Edited December 27, 2013 by plaiddragon

[plaiddragon]

i installed a mod wrong, (after landing)nothing bad , but it was a fail when it reversed my exit orbit and crashed me into and invisible duna...

yeah, problem

[plaiddragon]

i have bigger problems than that!

sigh

not exactly a fail, but my rocket design was, and it was kinda funny

[Tw1]

Christmas tree!

Oh no, physics!?!

Only in kerbal can you stuff up a Christmas tree this bad.

[Gemberkoekje]

I think more went wrong than went right on this one...

[Franklin]

"Hey, I'm finally getting the hang of this spaceplane thing!"

[panfish5]

It broke.

It broke again.

aand again.

aaaaaaaaaand agian.

[Jon Tash]

Hmmm... Something went wrong here... Everything collapsed itself with only 1.5g of acceleration.

[Soda Popinski]

Behold, the Duna Explorer. An orbitally assembled mother ship designed to fly a crew of 12 to Duna and Ike, do some science, refuel from mined Kethane, and return to Kerbin.

After painstakingly testing (almost) every part of the Duna Explorer, including the Kethane Mining Rig, sensor probe, landers, ballute aerobrake system, I finally luanched to Duna and Ike.

One thing I did not test, was deployment of the communications dishes (using RemoteTech2). Since, I run FAR, I tucked that folding antenna behind a bit of fuselage...

Now, that we're on our way, lets deploy it.

Not too big, clips a little bit. Shouldn't be a problem, it's flexible.

Wait, is that another fold out? It gets bigger?!

Is that dish slicing into my ship?

That's not good.

Mistakes were made.

Edited December 24, 2013 by Soda Popinski

[Vanamonde]

Mistakes were made.

Looks like a problem with the AE-35 unit.

[3mon]

Actually went to space, but was left wishing i hadnt

[macdjord]

Behold, the Duna Explorer. An orbitally assembled mother ship designed to fly a crew of 12 to Duna and Ike, do some science, refuel from mined Kethane, and return to Kerbin.

http://i.imgur.com/nkaG2FU.png

After painstakingly testing (almost) every part of the Duna Explorer, including the Kethane Mining Rig, sensor probe, landers, ballute aerobrake system, I finally luanched to Duna and Ike.

One thing I did not test, was deployment of the communications dishes (using RemoteTech2). Since, I run FAR, I tucked that folding antenna behind a bit of fuselage...

Now, that we're on our way, lets deploy it.

http://i.imgur.com/SqPIGz8.png

Not too big, clips a little bit. Shouldn't be a problem, it's flexible.

http://i.imgur.com/s3oVKe9.png

Wait, is that another fold out? It gets bigger?!

http://i.imgur.com/Su4c8o2.png

Is that dish slicing into my ship?

http://i.imgur.com/gl5Wpfw.png

That's not good.

http://i.imgur.com/3WbeT9w.png

Mistakes were made.

Why are you using that dish for Duna, anyway? The little stock dish has more than enough range, weighs about 1% as much, and requires far less space. That monster is only needed for missions to Jool or beyond.

[InterCity]

My biggest fail was probably the core of my space station. Somebody (me) forgot to make calculations. The core was composed by command cupola and Hitchhiker storage container, plus some scientific equipment, battery, mechjeb and solar panels. Since it was very heavy, i thought my old 0.16 Ker-boom 5 will not handle it. I decided to make a new rocket. It was using the new quadra-coupler. Propulsion was composed of 8x Rockomax BACC , 4x LV-30 engine and finally 4x LV-N.

Everything was going well until circularization. I didn't realise that four LV-N engines are simply not enough to pull my ship onto the orbit.

P.S. I managed to circularize Jeb by his pack, but bob and bill are probably in heaven now :-/

[syfyguy64]

I'm using Ferram so don't laugh at me...

[syfyguy64]

Actually went to space, but was left wishing i hadnt

http://gifti.me/i/9RzqIhKwTS.gif

Kravity, staring Jeb Clooney.