Never seen a ship this fast! (pic heavy)

[Kolt]

Sooooo, today I completed my very first interplanetary travel. I went for Duna after seeing that it was perfectly aligned for transfer. I was really excited about it and took a ton of screenshots but after landing, well, something weird happened...

Let me explain:

On my third try down, I finally landed... upside down, somehow

Lozer made the best of it, but I eventually reloaded to my last quicksave.

This is where it get's interesting.

I landed the thing, this time right side up.

It was all going well. Lozer went out, planted the flag, and wrote down the stuff, which was great. I just needed to get Richfry out to take one last screenshot before returning to orbit... But when Richfry EVAed, he hit the ground and things got weird. Everything disappeared. And I mean EVERYTHING.

No planet or moon was visible. All my flights were gone and so was the sun. The tracking station still said they were there tho.

I eventually tried to go back to my last quicksave, but nothing really happened. Everything went back to normal after closing and reopening the game... Or at least that's what it seemed until I noticed this

That's my Duna lander! The crew is gone, but they're not on Duna. The flag is also missing

I went to map view only to see this

Anyways, I still got one more kerbal on Duna orbit, so I may try to land him, but it's gonna be close to impossible, considering that the remaining ship isn't a lander xD

[Spaceisbeautifulul]

Physics huh? I know.

[Kolt]

Yhean, tell me about. I've had weird things happen in the game before, but nothing quite like this. All is not lost tho, the mission consisted of 3 ships that were flown on 2 different flights. One carried the crew, the lander, and the return ship, while the other carried 4 mapping satellites that I got on polar orbits around Duna and Ike. I think I might cheat a bit and get the last kerbal down there using the debug menu just to plan a flag to remember this happened

[Vanamonde]

It's an unusual bug, but it does happen from time to time when a Kerbal jumps from a ladder onto the ground. It's happened to me twice, and several other people have reported it as well.

[Kolt]

Aaah, that explains it! Richfry didn't exactly jump off the ladder. It was more like a stupid fall. Same difference tho. Well, at least now I know. I just hope it doesn't happen to me too often, considering that it did glitch the craft out of system and even left it without engines. Fingers crossed

[joppiesaus]

Mr. Kraken messed up for you!

[Horn Brain]

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Dang.

[Mazlem]

I just had this happen the other day - aerobraked too low in Jool, ended up 'landing' the ship at I think -90m. Fiddled with the landing gear or somethin and it exploded but the capsule was ok. Did an EVA an the Kerbal got scrambled, so I ended the flight, but all the planets were gone; my ships/stations were still ok though. Good thing for backups.

[AmpsterMan]

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Dang.

You know, KSP and this bug in particular have helped me appreciate just how fast the speed of light is.