Here are some screenshots from the EARLIEST version of KSP!

[SkyRender]

The pre-history of KSP is pretty interesting. It's also kind of amazing how over the course of less than a year we got this far:

And within a year of that, to this:

KSP went leaps and bounds in its first two years.

[TheCanadianVendingMachine]

Here's a 0.7.3 download. Earliest version of KSP released to the public

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/118650187/KSP%200.7.3.zip

[makinyashikino]

It looks REALLY cartooney, not that that's bad in games, but I'm glad with the art direction as of now!

[SBaL]

For any one that's interested, I found the part from the KerbalKon 2012 with all them old ksp versions being played by the man himself.

[Sylandro]

I have now realized this is starting to become dexter's ego trip

THATS A GOOD THING

[alacrity]

I like the "isntruments" on the flight screen. All kludged together on the right side like that.

ALacrity

[bigyihsuan]

Hoo boy, KSP 0.1.

I found this on HarvesteR's blog.

Enjoy!

Dat board.

Squad, re-add this into the VAB!

[Galileo Kerbonaut]

Here's a 0.7.3 download. Earliest version of KSP released to the public

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/118650187/KSP%200.7.3.zip

Thanks, I've added this to my collection.

For any one that's interested, I found the part from the KerbalKon 2012 with all them old ksp versions being played by the man himself.

This was great! It really makes me appreciate KSP in its current state even more now that I have seen the long road from 0.00 to 0.6. Too bad the second half was all about the Kerbalizer... that wasn't half as interesting as the first part. Don't get me wrong, this is an awesome post... added this to my KSP collection as well.

Thanks guys!

MOAR!?

[NoPanShabuShabu]

Here's a 0.7.3 download. Earliest version of KSP released to the public

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/118650187/KSP%200.7.3.zip

Thanks for making me waste a couple of hours getting to orbit in this!

[OrtwinS]

This should also be in this thread:

well, look here, this is REALLY the origins of KSP -- a hand drawing by HarvesteR (back then "the shadow") depicting the earliest reckless attempts of a pack of teenagers playing with fireworks!

These craft were constructed out of whatever could be found at the kitchen of our grandparents farm house, the engines were Estes model rockets in the first few tests. When those ran out (surplus from a shuttle kit which was promptly destroyed by our erstwhile ineptitude), more common bottle rockets from a local novelties shop became the main source for propulsion - it took a few kerbals before the notion to remove the explosive end at the tip of those things came to mind

The first two tests still used the same launch pad that came with that ill-fated shuttle kit - that was no longer a feature in later missions, as the damaged plastic parts from Kerbal I did not survive long enough to accommodate launches after Kerbal II

Note that back then, the terminology was different in that a pilot of our craft ('ably' fashioned out of crumpled tin foil) was called a "Kerbo", originating "Kerbal" as an adjective meaning "of Kerbo-related nature" - Subsequent history gradually phased out the ancient form and replaced "Kerbal" for the name of the species as well.

"Allumminnia", as seen noted on some of the logged entries, is probably an archaic word for perhaps the Mün, but some kerbal historians suggest it more likely would have been Minmus. This theory is contested by claims that such name has its roots in a reference to "alluminum paper", (the local name given to tin foil in Brazil), proposing a reference to such like a surface being found at said unconquered destination, thus favouring the Mün as a candidate. - That name has since fallen to disuse and more lately may be considered rude among kerbal historians and tin foil enthusiasts.

Log entries where the pilot line reads "n/a" should be better read as "not accountable", and thus may not imply these craft were unmanned - rather that nobody thought to actually write down the names of them brave 'nauts before they fatefully became unable to account for themselves, being dead and all...

HarvesteR will attest that this is indeed his own hand drawing (notice the similarity to the sketches found on the credits ingame). He will dispute me, no doubt, that it was really I who first came up with the whole idea for a tin-foil pilot and calling it a "Kerbo" in the first place. - Did I mention we share the same mother?

invariantly, albeit appearing needless to say, since we've all grown knowledgeable of the many perils of kerbal spacefare, it fits to state:

DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME!

cheers!

This is a quote from another (quite old) thread.

[Sylandro]

Bah!

I was about to post that!

[Jon Tash]

Since this is where we can post our oldest pics of KSP here it is.

Back then I didn't screenshot as often then today. Here is my oldest screenshot that I remember to keep, others where deleted.

These were taken on the 17th July 2011.

It was the time when all that matters was to go as high as possible, there were lots of challenge on the forum and no Mun, no orbital view and we needed to figure out the orbital speed and altitude to know we were in orbit.

The engines in the pictures are moded parts.

[dazhat]

Check this if you like KSP debut.

Harverter talking of this new game on the Orbiter Forum

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/34287-Just-found-this-KSP-s-debut?p=429123#post429123

http://www.orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?t=22998

Wow, he hadn't decided whether to include orbital mechanics or not. Definitely made the right decision.

[Dogface]

Thats pretty cool, thanks

[bsalis]

Some things change. Some things stay the same...

[Max Grant]

Here's a 0.7.3 download. Earliest version of KSP released to the public

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/118650187/KSP%200.7.3.zip

Thanks so much for posting that. I had that version but then when I upgraded, thoughtlessly overwrote it instead of saving it off.

Of course, at that time this was just a new shiny thing for me to play with. I had no idea it would become so . . . . totally awesome.

I have archived virtually every version since, because it's awesome.

[Comrade Jenkens]

This makes me feel like a right newb. I've been playing since 0.17 and joined the forums in Nov 2012

[Whackjob]

This makes me feel like a right newb. I've been playing since 0.17 and joined the forums in Nov 2012

Could be worse. I joined in June of this year.

[Sylandro]

This thread was mentioned on the official KSP facebook!

[The Jedi Master]

Here's a 0.7.3 download. Earliest version of KSP released to the public

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/118650187/KSP%200.7.3.zip

Loading times were even longer, there was no symmetry, it was laggy as hell and the thrust kept screwing up.

I love it.

[Comrade Jenkens]

Could be worse. I joined in June of this year.

Yes but you're whackjob, you've made up for your lack of time simply with the sheer size of the contraptions you've built!!!

[rasheed]

Ahh, kerbin was 1/10 the size of earth because of time, and this.

Floating-point imprecision affects everything. Not just positions. If you make an object too big, it will start breaking the game engine, that can’t render it properly, can’t keep it’s textures mapped well enough, lots of issues.

But we still needed a spherical gravity system here. And the game’s project called for a planet 1/10th the radius of Earth. That was our goal at least, and we were forced to compromise. The very first version of Kerbin was only 20km big, and it was nothing more than a very big sphere.

It was enough though, to allow us to build a spherical gravity system, and to enable orbiting. We even set down a smaller sphere some way away, to be a moon, and test out transfer flights and things like that.

Yep.

[Nibroc]

I actually really like this gradient on the orbit.

Why did they remove it?

[jebisanaggie]

I would totally throw down $30 for a "KSP: The Klassics" edition.

[megaprime13]

Me gusta. I want a GUI like that. I want my temps to be a gauge