Terminating/ending flights?

[Bradvh97]

If you abort / terminate / end a flight will it permanently remove that vessel and Kerbals aboard from the game or will it just remove it from the tracking station and still be there to be found at a later date?

[saik0]

At any time from the tracking station any craft in the "landed" state on Kerbin it can be recovered (the crane icon button), otherwise it can only be terminated (the X button). This kills the Kerbals.

[MrKicker]

As he stated above, use revovery when possible. However when you terminate the flight, the craft and kerbals are deleted.

[Tiron]

As he stated above, use revovery when possible. However when you terminate the flight, the craft and kerbals are deleted.

If the craft is recovered, the kerbals go right back on the active flight menu, but this is only possible when landed on Kerbin.

When terminating the flight (the option for which is NOT enabled unless recovery is not possible) The Kerbals are NOT deleted. They're flagged as 'missing' (state=3). By default, after a period of time they will respawn into the available roster, with the exact same name, stats, etc, without having to re-hire them. You can set it not to respawn them by manually editing persistent.sfs