Showing Off - First Space Station!

[starkllr]

Not sure if this is the proper thread, but I'm very proud of my Kerbals; they've established their first permanant (hopefully!) space station.

Behold the Kerballed Orbiting Lab:

There are currently two craft docked. On the left, you will note an Orbital Rescue Vehicle, Mark 11. On the right is docked a Kerbal Return Capsule, Mark 2.

This particular Mark 11 ORV has already performed heroic service, retrieving stranded Kerbals from two separate stranded spacecraft and returning them to the safety of the Orbiting Lab.

The Orbital Rescue Vehicle program has had its teething problems. The Mark 1 through 6 vehicles all failed, generally catastrophically, during unKerballed testing. The first and only Mark 7 craft was launched to retrieve a stranded Kerbal, but suffered structural failure during rendezvous maneuvers, requiring a rescue mission for the rescue mission. The Mark 8 through 10 models all failed in further unKerballed tests, but with the Mark 11, success was finally achieved!

The next step is to upgrade the Kerballed Orbiting Lab with a second habitation module, and a large fuel tank to support deep space exploration.

[sadron]

The new command pod with the nice windowed cockpit is ideal for space stations.

[Scotius]

Also Clamp-O-Trons Sr. are good choice for connecting station core modules. Don't be afraid of using struts for structurally unreliable crafts - it won't look so pretty and clean, but it also won't fall apart at mere bump.

[Brenok]

Is this thread to discuss your space station or to post our own recently built ones?

If it's the latter, here is my proudly recent inaugurated station:

All of these solar panels are decorative, as currently there are no devices that need electricity on the Station.

[Khrissetti]

Nice station, Starkllr, and yours is particularly pretty, Brenok

I haven't finished my KOSC (Kerbal Orbital Space Centre) yet but the station core and science module are attached. Next up is the communications module, to be followed by the Ship docking module and finally (For now) the fuel storage module.

Oh, hai there, Kensel!

[Mercy]

Mercy cannot into space stations. ;~;

[Rabada]

Very Nice! I still haven't put my first station up yet, but I'm inspired to try to put up something simple like what you have designed.