The "Highest Honor"

[astroboy820]

After looking through the forums for quite a while, I noticed a lot of people (in fact, probably close to 95% that I saw) have the ribbons for different objectives they completed. I saw people that had stations, bases, rovers, flags, etc.,but I can't think about which one is the most impressive. So, what is the highest honor in your opinion? Is putting a flag on a moon or another planet more important than having a base or a rover?

[Dean Harper]

You'll probably get a lot of differing opinions, but I think it would be putting someone on the surface of Eve and returning them to Kerbin.

[InterCity]

For me, the biggest success was building Mun base. Since i have llife support mod, it was a tough one to achieve.

I never landed a kerbal at eve, so i don't know what it is like. But the rover seemed much heavier than at Kerbin

[Thomas988]

As of now, probably my proudest achievement is landing on Minmus in Career.

[Xetalim]

The biggest honor probably is manned eve return.

[astroboy820]

I don't think that I explained my question clearly, or maybe it's just too early for me to comprehend what others are saying; I'm asking, regardless of the planet or moon, what craft device would be the highest honor? Would it be building a base on an object, a space station around an object, just getting a flag on the surface, etc?

[Spartan125]

Single stage to every planet and moon and back without refueling.

[Sirine]

Single stage to every planet and moon and back without refueling.

Easy. Just enable unlimited fuel.

[Gravator]

Easy. Just enable unlimited fuel.

yea.. and for eve? unlimited fuel AND unbreakable joints, that way it wont break. and no crash damage.

everything is easy with cheats...

[Javster]

A base at Eeloo, or a Kerballed return from Eve.

[Xetalim]

A kethane base on Eve with landers able of going to an Eve space station.

[irongut]

I noticed a lot of people (in fact, probably close to 95% that I saw) have the ribbons for different objectives they completed.

Where do those ribbons come from?

[Jodo42]

Where do those ribbons come from?

http://ribbons.cgagnier.ca/

On topic, a while ago somebody did a stock "landing" on Jool's surface and brought the Kerbal on board back into orbit. Not sure if it's still do-able, but with stock parts that's probably the greatest achievement.

Edit: here's the thread: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/50242-Jool-accent-the-imposible-chalenge/

A base at Moho is relatively difficult. One at Eve is less so, but having an escape system at the Eve base that'd get all Kerbals back into orbit would be impressive.

Very low solar orbits are at the least time-consuming to get to. If you don't wanna use ions, asparagus staged nukes or 48-7s are really the only practical options.

Ship-to-ship rendezvous in Solar orbit is buggy, time-consuming, and downright hard. I'd say an orbital station with multiple, docking-assembled pieces in low Kerbol orbit is one of the hardest things to do in KSP.

Edited December 28, 2013 by Jodo42

[Spartwo]

SSTO,I could do all the other things but single stage eluded me for a long time.

[RocketPilot573]

Visiting the Magic Boulder....

It was in my old ribbon, but I restarted it in .22 so now it's impossible.

[Sargent890]

I would agree that bringing Kerbals back from Eve is the highest honor. By the way, how do you get these badges?

[RocketPilot573]

I would agree that bringing Kerbals back from Eve is the highest honor. By the way, how do you get these badges?

Click on the ribbons, they link to a forum post explaining them.

Edited December 28, 2013 by RocketPilot573

[Sargent890]

Thanks for the help, I finally set mine up

[Spyritdragon]

In my viewpoint, the highest honor is probably having returned from the surface of Eve to Kerbin with stock parts.

[WhiteWeasel]

Pushing you engineering skills to a new height for me. Either my first SSTO or the getting the largest ship I have ever built into orbit, an macey dean inspired naval carrier. To be fair it was made a lot easier with tweakables by shipping it up empty.

[KvickFlygarn87]

Return from Eve surface. Oh god.

[SpaceSphereOfDeath]

Return from surface of eve, a feat I have done only once (good god the lag)

The highest Honor is probably a grand tour, with out refilling including a manned eve landing and a Jool landing and return (it's possible)

[davieholgate]

using the jetpack, a 1 man pod, and an rcs canister (but no rcs boosters, only for refilling eva pack) and then use EVA power to return from Eeloo. there. EDIT: youre already in 100km orbit of Eeloo.

Edited December 28, 2013 by davieholgate
adding a new parameter

[InterCity]

Eeloo or Jool kethane mining base with refinery, refueling station, orbital "rockorest" (where the kerbals can fool around waiting for next kethane transport), rover base and at least 10 permanent occupants.

Sticking a all-in-one lander there with no provisions for return doesn't count

[Sirine]

.Eve return. Done 3 times. 1st, 1man. 2nd, sea level 1man. 3rd, 900m.....4 men. Check my mission report.