Add crew to your station while in flight?

[ElLocoRodriqo]

hey i got this cool science station at the moon, i depart landers from there and get science from different biomes. but the thing is... all of my crew is gone only jeb and 2 others are in the main pod the ones in the science thing are missing and my hitchhiker container is also suddenly empty, i filled them up at launch and now they are all gone is there a way to spawn them in somehow like by the quicksave?

Edited December 30, 2013 by ElLocoRodriqo

[Smidge204]

If you added crew in the VAB prior to launch, and left/re-entered the VAB for any reason, or left the VAB and launched directly from the pad, the lab and hitchhiker container will be empty. Neither of these parts are crewed automatically and they are reset to empty every time you load the ship.

The legit way to staff your ship is to send another mission. For cheating I'd pack up a few hitchhikers and use HyperEdit.

=Smidge=

[Hodo]

You have a couple of options.

You could "cheat" like smidge said, which is a valid way to fix a mistake.

Or you could build a crew transfer shuttle and send them there the old fashioned way.

[Commissar]

meh. it's the moon. just fly another craft over with some more kerbals. not difficult.

[celem]

If you added crew in the VAB prior to launch, and left/re-entered the VAB for any reason, or left the VAB and launched directly from the pad, the lab and hitchhiker container will be empty. Neither of these parts are crewed automatically and they are reset to empty every time you load the ship.

This issue also appears if you remained in the VAB after adding the crew but interacted with any part. Add a strut? Crew resets. Clicked a part on your ship? Crew resets (even if you put it back where it was or used ctrl-z to undo).

By default the game will completely fill the root part if it's a part that can contain kerbals. any other crew containing part is left empty. If your root part is not kerbal-containing then it seems a little less predictable, but the game will pick one of the kerbal-capable parts and fill that (its also where vessel control will default to when sending the ship to the pad)

[Soda Popinski]

Not sure if they fixed it, but before, if you docked 2 ships together with guys with the same name, one would disappear.

[longhornchris]

I recommend adding the crew manifest mod which allows you to add kerbals while on the launch pad and move them around your vessel. Adding Kerbals on the pad is nice in the event you forget to setup your crew in the VAB. Because a docked ship is 'one' vessel it also allows you to move kerbals around without having to go EVA, which is how it should be for space stations.

It also means you can do station launches without having to send kebals up in the lab module.

[BlackBicycle]

OP: wait a second... the kerbals in the lab don't show up, you can click the labs hatch and it will present you with a list of two occupants, with the ability to EVA them.

That it?

[ElLocoRodriqo]

thanks for the ****load of answers but i just brought another lander with more kerbals. the mission is complete i sucked all the science out off the mun (3000 points)

[ElLocoRodriqo]

Not sure if they fixed it, but before, if you docked 2 ships together with guys with the same name, one would disappear.

i had 2 jebs on there and they stayed during the whole mission

[ElLocoRodriqo]

i know that blackbicycle. when will they make the interior of the science lab?

[plastik]

I 'lost' Kerbals from my Mun lab, but I eventually figured out how. From the VAB, I manually filled all the slots with Kerbals and then proceeded to launch. I realised upon launch that I needed to make an adjustment so I reverted back to the VAB, added the missing part (can't remember what it was) and went to launch again. That was when I lost the Kerbals from the lab; you need to add the Kerbals again after reverting back to the assembly building. I don't think that applies when reverting back to the launch pad though. Maybe you lost them the same way I did?

Anyway, I eventually sent two additional landers to my ground based Mun lab to fill it up. I'm quite confident landing things on the Mun and Minimus now so it wasn't the end of the world.