Looks like we can no longer just grab our Kerbals back from outer space!

[Custard Donut (In Space)]

I'm playing career mode and it's poor Elvin Kerman that has found this out, i got him into orbit around the Mun, looked at the fuel and thought, "yeah, let's try and land, i think i have enough," well he landed, did some excellent research and even took a valuable chunk of Mun with him, he took off again but there wasn't even enough fuel to orbit the Mun and i had just saved, his ship was on a collision course with the Mun!

Copying some quick thinkers who have done the same in the past i EVA'd him and using his jet-pack i managed to get him into orbit around the Mun without his ship, but now all that data is gon...er i mean poor Elvin! Stuck there floating in space, and i'm not even advanced enough to make any kind of rescue ship i don't think, he's going to be there a while before i can get him, and i think he left his Mun rock in the ship that crashed back to the Mun...not that it matters of course, as Elvin is the main concern here. *cough*

Poor Elvin.

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I don't know about you guys but without access to my cookie-cutter ships and with all these new scientific wotsits to strap on the top making the load heavier, my old methods just aren't cutting it anymore.

Edited October 17, 2013 by Custard Donut (In Space)

[paleorob]

Build a ship with two pods and rendezvous with him. You can at least get multiple EVA reports then.

[Custard Donut (In Space)]

I'm going to do that, i just need a few more better parts lol

[Camelotking524]

Slap a probe core on a MK1 capsule and empty the capsule. Simple and easy rescue vessel. Send it up to him and rendezvous with him and bring him home.

If you got the tech to make it to the moon, then you got the tech to bring him home.

Too bad about those experiments, a moment of silence for those lost science points.

[Custard Donut (In Space)]

hehe thanks guys, i'm going to do just that, i hadn't thought about the probe idea, great stuff, thankfully i know how to rendesvouz even if i don't know how to spell it most the time.

[lajoswinkler]

I guess Elvin is saying: "Anyone... anybody... do you copy?... Please copy..."

[Custard Donut (In Space)]

I guess Elvin is saying: "Anyone... anybody... do you copy?... Please copy..."

I have a sinking feeling that in real life a helmet radio might not be strong enough to reach Earth or be drowned out by radiation or something, but if it did he'd be able to listen to Miley Kyrus and Justin Kieber for a few years, he might be mad when we finally save him though.

Edited October 17, 2013 by Custard Donut (In Space)

[lajoswinkler]

I have a sinking feeling that in real life a helmet radio might not be strong enough to reach Earth or be drowned out by radiation or something, but if it did he'd be able to listen to Miley Kyrus and Justin Kieber for a few years, he might be mad when we finally save him though.

Your feeling is correct. Radio astronauts carry can not possibly reach Earth from Moon. I doubt it can even reach Earth from ISS, that's why ISS is used as relay station for astronauts on EVA. It's simply too weak.

[AlamoVampire]

anyone else thinking about the scene in gravity where sandra bullocks character is careening out of control in space thanks to poor Elvin?

[Tw1]

I have a sinking feeling that in real life a helmet radio might not be strong enough to reach Earth or be drowned out by radiation or something, but if it did he'd be able to listen to Miley Kyrus and Justin Kieber for a few years, he might be mad when we finally save him though.

Elvin: "Three Years! Three years you left me, with nothing but Miley Kyrus and Justin Kieber to listen to! You bet I'm mad!"

[Custard Donut (In Space)]

M: Great news man! I just got back from orbiting the sun and i brought back a ton of science, it's going to pave the way for nuclear engines so we can design something to get you back, well eventually, we just need to do some more journey's and...

E: MERFROD!!...IT's BEEN 106 DAYS!!!! *fizzle*

M: I know, i know! Trust us we're getting there, anyway we've told K-Radio that Miley Kyrus and Justin Kieber are banned till we get you down don't worry, anyway....goodnight Elvin.

E: And that Lady Kaga, *fart-sound* I don't want to hear it anymore Merfrod! *Spshhhh!*

M: You got it Elvin... i'l let them know mate, see you.

E: Yeah *beep*

(reality, i can't make anything with enough fuel to rendezvous with Elvin until i get hold of some nuclear engines, so i need more science, yes i suck.)

Edited October 18, 2013 by Custard Donut (In Space)

[UH60guy]

Ground control to Jebediah, your circuits dead, there's something wrong

Can you hear me, Jebediah?

Can you hear me, Jebediah?

Apologies to David Bowie.

[Scorpi15]

Can you hear me Mr. Jeb?

Can you-

-Here, am I floating in my space suit.

Far across the Mun...

Planet Kerbin is blue, and there's nothing we can do...

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

[19spacepug]

I hope that you save that kerbal soon. If you need fast science try stuff on kerbin like samples in the water or in the polar regions well really anywhere you get about 10 science on kerbin.

[Galane]

I thought a Kerbal's jetpack didn't have enough fuel to reach orbit from the surface of the Mun?

[Scorpi15]

He took off, but the ship ran out of fuel before it achieved orbit, and was still on a suborbital trajectory. He used the EVA pack to finish circularisation.

[Zapness]

So he doesn't have the fuel to rendezvous with the station?

[Custard Donut (In Space)]

I managed to get him!

I finally happened across a design that made it there and had enough fuel to come back again, here is Hope-2. full of fuel and leaving Kerbin's influence:

Thankfully he was only asleep and woke up to a wonderful surprise, he was going home!

The stage-managed shot for the newspapers, after copious amounts of coffee, hugs and back-slapping Elvin was back in the mood to smile, a catastrophic journey that thankfully ended happily.

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Edited October 20, 2013 by Custard Donut (In Space)

[19spacepug]

Wow awesome job on getting that kerbal back from space. Do you have anymore plans for that kerbal or any new space missions like making a small station for things that happen like this.

[Custard Donut (In Space)]

Wow awesome job on getting that kerbal back from space. Do you have anymore plans for that kerbal or any new space missions like making a small station for things that happen like this.

Oh thank you very much I'm afraid i don't really have any more plans as i'm still just collecting science, but hopefully i'l do another story some day, i've already done two Mun rescues which doesn't really say much for my skills hehe, i think for my next mission i'l send someone else other than Elvin, he's earned himself a long rest back at the Space-center and other Kerbals are raring to become well known too.