How To Science, KSP 0.23 career mode series

[Jimor]

"How To Science" is a Let's Play series that's designed to show that it doesn't take complicated rockets and heroic missions to unlock all the Science in Kerbal Space Project's career mode (v 0.23). I'll be using a steady progression of rocket designs and knowledge of where best to discover science to lay out a program that any user could follow to get all the parts.

In Episode 1, I unlock 6 tech nodes with 5 simple sub-orbital missions, and set the plate for reaching orbit and beyond.

[Jimor]

Episode 2 is up. I demonstrate how the new transmission falloff works, and how to eventually get around it, and I get into orbit and show how to get multiple EVA reports via the Kerbin biomes.

[Jimor]

Episode 3, where I clean up some science points in near-Kerbin orbit, grab some high orbit points, and unlock some techs that set up future missions to Mun and Minmus. (At the beginning, I talk about going to Mun in this episode, but that didn't happen, instead that will be in Episode 4 coming out tomorrow.)

[Jimor]

Episode 4 with flybys of Mun and Minmus is now posted. By harvesting science in high and near orbit of both moons, I unlock all of the 90 science tech nodes. Next up, some Mun landings to explore the various biomes.

[Ender240naut]

Fantastic!! hank you for the videos, I was so confused about how to get more science with just the goo canisters, now I know!

Keep the videos coming!

[sibrows]

Any idea when the next video will be?

[Jimor]

After busy holidays, a horrendous cold that made it impossible to talk without coughing up a lung for nearly a month, then other stuff, episode 5 is FINALLY posted! It's long again, but I decided to leave in a rough first attempt to show how to fix a design flaw in the rocket, then have a full mission landing on the Mun, then follow it up with a 2nd for more science. I should be able to put out the rest of the series now in a much more timely manner. A big thank you to everybody who has watched the series! Almost 10,000 total views between the first 4 videos so far!

[Jimor]

Next in the series, though it's just a set of 4 more missions to Mun to collect a large dose of Science points. Next up is a set of landing missions to Minmus.

[Jimor]

Episode 7, with 4 landings on Minmus and enough science to unlock all but the last tech tier. Next up, we go interplanetary.

[ghimb2000]

Any new videos for interplanetary science? Great videos so far. I like it a lot.

[Jimor]

Any new videos for interplanetary science? Great videos so far. I like it a lot.

Yes, I still want to complete this series, so interplanetary is next, plus I have a planned one-off tutorial that talks exclusively about how to figure out the whole process of getting to other planets, including how to work out transfer and burn angles within the game without resorting to math! (Yes, it is possible!)