NASA takes after KSP

[DunaRocketeer]

Great shot of the Delta IV Heavy there! I've stolen the design for my own heavy launcher too.

[Andon]

I'm not a stellar artist, but I gave it my best shot!

http://i.imgur.com/YkrxFeo.png

That is awesome. The look on his face is just glorious.

[Alex_Leonardo]

I think the box is the Human attachment system storage. Or it's mystery goo.

Edited March 7, 2014 by Alex_Leonardo

[Rockyfelle185]

I think the box is the Human attachment system storage. Or it's mystery goo.

Mystery goo, definetely mystery goo.

[The Jedi Master]

Has this thing ever been tested or launched unmanned before? Just curious...

[Mephane]

beg to differ good sir:

http://imageshack.com/a/img849/4396/tvne.png

http://imageshack.com/a/img541/4476/unnw.png

http://imageshack.com/a/img703/4771/qbgh.png

http://imageshack.com/a/img43/374/qk64.png

http://imageshack.com/a/img827/2456/ee8i.png

If your intention was to prove that there can be enough boosters, then you just achieved the opposite, since now I am wondering how fast this contraption would get if it consisted of multiple stages like that...

[DerpenWolf]

Why NASA Why???

Everybody knows those rocket cones do not help to reduce drag!

Looks like the part in the back doesn't have a cone.... though it dose look like it is just the lower part of the booster.

[hugix]

Or a sticker. Or put KSP on a jump drive and send it up. Surely one of these laptops can run KSP, right?

Yo dawg, I heard you like spaceflight, so you can spaceflight while you spaceflight. Like this (photoshopped):

http://i.imgur.com/F0trrgl.jpg?1

Baaaaddd idea!

That's like watching Airplane crash investigation while flying... Times a million!

[MR4Y]

Uh...huh.

NASA had orange tanks for decades...

[User Unrelated]

I also think that the ISS needs permanent bill/bob/jeb statues somewhere onboard...

[Boris_T_Roach]

I also think that the ISS needs permanent bill/bob/jeb statues somewhere onboard...

That would give us a laugh as an ISS crewmember gets out Bill, Jeb and Bob models out of his personal effects bag and glues them to the control panel

Boris

[Brofessional]

The tanks are orange because they don't paint over the insulation foam in order to save weight.

[ScallopPotato]

This video explains how the Delta-IV heavy's ignition sequence usually creates a huge explosion and scorches the fuel tanks. It's even on fire after liftoff. Very kerbal.

I do believe that "release a huge cloud of hydrogen gas and ignite it" is one of the reasons why the RS-25 engines aren't human-rated. Probably is perfectly safe to our kerbals, but if UAL can make an explosion-ignition and burning rocket, we can too.

I just love it how the orange and white sections of the booster cores have the same lengths as the Jumbo-64 and 32 fuel tanks.

[Vanamonde]

the Delta-IV heavy's ignition sequence

"We kind of want to launch our rocket, but we also sort of want to burn it at the stake."

"Why not both?!"

[78stonewobble]

I'm now remembering the guy on youtube claiming that rockets don't work in space and that all them launches are fake, because... what was it... oh yeah, you cannot stop and restart solid fuel rockets. -..-

[Frank_G]

Why NASA Why???

Everybody knows those rocket cones do not help to reduce drag!

Unless NASA has Feram Aerospace installed...

[psyper]

I love how the one on the right saying oversize load isn't actually carrying anything. (Unless, what's in the box ?)

And the on the left shouldn't say oversize load. That's not over sized. It's perfect!

Any idea what this is for?

Thats where they keep the 'more struts' of course