How many kerbals have you lost so far

[fatfluffycat]

None, safety is very important for me

[Whirligig Girl]

At least 10

[IndieDev3D]

Just one!

Full story here.

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/42049-Silliest-thing-you-ve-seen-in-KSP

[Benie]

Only one, because when something goes wrong, Esc, End Flight.

I can't remember exactly the reason. This was in 0.20. I had EVA'd a Kerbal with the rocket in the air, and he went splat into a cloud of smoke on the ground.

Crew Manifest was able to bring him back to life for me.

[Killerdude8]

I lost Jeb in the test flight of a minimalist jet.

R.I.P Jeb.

[Kerbol Prime]

Jeb died and two others (not bill or bob however) but they all went missing in action so they came back eventually.

[BurntPhoenix]

I killed Jeb ;_; I tried landing a one man lander can on the mun with only a stack mounted 24-77. too much velocity, too little thrust, and now Jedediah is now "missing in action"

[Lanfranc]

Well, let's see – I've tried to land a plane four times so far, so that means, uh… yeah, four Kerbals dead. (I'm not very good at landing planes.)

[The_mad]

/care 23 due to structural errors, 34 due to design flaws, 154 lost in space without any fuel to get back home.

[regex]

Since I started a new save on 0.21: zero. Before that I can't remember, but not that many, maybe 10.

[Omey]

I have lost many a kerbal but it was in the persuit of discovery. Trial and error on ship design led to a humbling journey to orbit the Planet and Mun. The Landing module is quite hard to figure out but more Kerbals are ready for the adventure. It's a awesome simulation and I hope they keep adding to it.

[aNewHope]

I lost like 8 random Kerbals in Aircraft testing (who needs "revert flight" if the pilot is disposable? ^^).

Jeb, Bill and Bob are at full health and wait for their departure to Duna.

[Zeroignite]

I just killed one on on a mission to KSC2... botched the landing

That's my second fatality since 0.21 --- both in aircraft accidents. I think planes are a lot more dangerous than rockets.

[Rainbow-Dashie]

So far i'm at Zero, but Rosen Kerman is stranded on a Space Station in a 1.5 million meter Kerbin Orbit... if only i could dock... I had half a dozen plane crashes, but the things crashed soon after attempted take off, so they never got past 20m/s...

[astropapi1]

0.

Abort sequences and standard rockets are your friends.

[Necandi Brasil]

Still none ... , I activated permadeath in my files ...

[ouion]

None,I save every one.

[Dispatcher]

Because I started in v. 0.20, I have no idea how many of my valiant Kerbalnauts made the ultimate sacrifice.

[annallia]

5. 4 of them were all on the same mission, was meant to be a rescue to get Jeb, Bill, and some other kebal home (they ran out of fuel and were on a trajectory out of Kerbins SOI) so I had to rush to put together a rescue ship that would get to them and bring them home. As it turns out there is a side effect to having radial chutes on the bottom of a hitchhiker capsule which has stuff on top of it (including another command pod) that side effect being when they fully deploy it crushes the SAS module, destroys the hitchiker can, and leaves the command module falling without a chute...

Bill who was one of the 4 was also the 5th. I was testing my refueling rover, landed a a small lander that was low on fuel near it, had bill (the driver) run the line (KAS) out to the tanker and fueled it up. When it was full I grabbed the key, meant to release it and pull it back in with the winch but I guess I miss clicked. Switched back to my lander started to retract and took off... that is when I saw bill suddenly go zipping away from the rover. Distracted me just long enough that my rocket buzzed the VAB and slammed Bill into the side.

[Hikaru]

I have no kerbals listed as losses in 0.21... However, I want to point out that before I started redesigning my spacecraft in 0.18 to avoid killing the crew as much as possible upon malfunction, I wound up with so many crew deaths that over a third of my entire persistence file was dedicated to keeping track of them. (It was in fact me trying to debug a problem with a ship that had null parts that made me notice that I'd... killed several dozen of the green guys...) So, while I am a saint when it comes to keeping my kerbals alive in 0.21, I am merely a reformed mass murderer if you take the longer view >D

[Tassyr]

None in 0.21 thanks to extensive testing with probes- though one hell of a close call. Jeb almost ended up on the wall when his munar lander went a bit haywire and came so close to the mun on a high speed passby that it grazed the surface, ripped off an RCS tank and two RCS thrusters, and sent him spinning off into orbit again.

... Damn mountain. Also Damn Jeb trying to see how close he could get...

[SpaceSphereOfDeath]

None in 0.21

All together though, about 100. (Since 0.15)

[TheDarkStar]

I've been playing a long time, and I've done some tests that were not safe for Kerbals. At best, I've killed more than a thousand Kerbals. At worst, it's more like 2000.

Edit: In 0.21, I've haven't killed anyone yet.

Edited August 13, 2013 by TheDarkStar

[DisarmingBaton5]

Jerdred Kerman. He was going to investigate a crater near the landing site (first in 0.21!) but fell a bit too quickly.

EDIT: On the Mun.

[Anton P. Nym]

In v0.21, just one; SSTO ran short of fuel 80km west of KSC in the dead of night, tried to land the craft but either dug in a wing or bounced the landing gear too hard and had a firey cartwheel. Should've killed the pilot but Jersey didn't show KIA in the mission report and later returned to the active pilot roster. (Found out later that I had not implemented permadeath, so this was not a glitch.)

I've been careful with my pilots since astronaut training/recruitment was added, generally experimenting with probes and making sure there are abort procedures in place for crewed craft.

-- Steve