That Moment When...

[mythic_fci]

Basically, some weird/funny/random stuff that's happened to you in KSP.

I'll start:

That moment when you crash a plane in the water, go to check the forums, come back an hour later and all the radial intakes are STILL bouncing.

[Red Iron Crown]

That moment when KSP finally finishes loading and you realize you forgot to install that mod you wanted to try.

Great thread idea!

[Thomas988]

That moment just before you dock to your Munar space station when you realize you brought the wrong kind of docking port.

[mythic_fci]

That moment just before you dock to your Munar space station when you realize you brought the wrong kind of docking port.

So much this. How many times have I done this? I've lost count already.

[r4pt0r]

That moment when you warp months ahead to reach an optimal launch window for your probe you just put in orbit, and you realize too late you never opened your solar panels.

[Dizzle]

"Awesome! The burn is complete and we're on our way to Duna. Now we'll just extend those solar panels and... ooooh boy."

[montyben101]

That moment when you dock with a station and realise you forgot the docking port in the cargo bay so you can't put the module back in

[Mufasa]

That moment when land on a new planet so excited, you press EVA: Exit Blocked

[TythosEternal]

That moment when you use all your transit stage fuel lining up the world's most beautiful aerobraking trajectory, only to realize that a) the frame transition now puts you at 20000 m periapsis altitude instead of 80000 m, you're inbound for Eve and are therefore unavoidably screwed, and c) your four-year-old daughter, who is in love with Jebediah, is about to watch him perform an extreme lithobraking maneuver. Better revert, quick!

[Red Iron Crown]

That moment when you press space instead of throttling up to launch your lander back into space.

(I know, I know, Alt-L, but still...)

[r_rolo1]

That moment when your game somehow saves while you are using a still moving rover in the Mun ... and while you are trying to rstore the mess out via save editing, you make your rover ( without the root part, mind that ) to go to Munar escape velocity through the Mun by acident. I actually choked out of laughing that hard

[Boris_T_Roach]

That moment after hours of hard work in the VAB getting everything sorted out and lined up and you are finally ready for launch that you press the space

bar and watch your SRBs ignite and detatch at the same time while the rest of your rocket sinks slowly down to the launch pad and explodes.

Boris

Or solar panels

[ZodiaK]

that moment when you lose intrest in making that replica

[tg626]

That moment after hours of hard work in the VAB getting everything sorted out and lined up and you are finally ready for launch that you press the space

bar and watch your SRBs ignite and detatch at the same time while the rest of your rocket sinks slowly down to the launch pad and explodes.

Boris

Or solar panels

I think that's known as "Vanguard Syndrome"

[Mufasa]

That moment when you are picking your mission flag and when you click on it you actually click a part on your ship, and then you have a mess.

Happens to me every time, they need to fix that bug.

[Alshain]

That moment when your 500m above the surface of the dark side of the Mun and realize you forgot the landing lights and have to land at a 45 degree slope completely blind.

Yep, I did that, and prevailed.

[EdFred]

That moment when after waiting on the launch pad with solar panels deployed to keep batteries charged while time warping, you forget to undeploy them on launch.

[Alshain]

That moment when something absurdly impossible becomes possible.

[problemecium]

Ahh, yes. That moment when you open the "Open Craft" window to check how many parts are on such-and-such ship, click "cancel", and apparently also click through the window on a random part of the ship that was almost impossible to get lined up the first time, ruining the whole thing.

That moment when you really want to Revert to VAB, but can't because you stupidly loaded a quicksave after launching.

[Renegrade]

That moment when EditorLogic.CheckSymPartsAttach manages to NullRef a craft, and you realize you haven't saved three hours of work..

..or when you save after that happens, invaliding ALL the hours...

[zarakon]

and apparently also click through the window on a random part of the ship that was almost impossible to get lined up the first time, ruining the whole thing.

Quick fix whenever you accidentally lift a part: delete, undo.

[magnamonyx]

that moment when you get right up to your space station and are about to dock, but you accidentally miss and bump the station and send it spinning away form you

[Frank_G]

That moment when your ship breaks loose from Jools atmosphere and entering a safe stable orbit after your first successful aerobraking...

[Madrias]

That moment when you're traveling across the Mun at a reasonable rate of speed with your probe rover, you just left the ground over a crater, and your batteries die.

Another one I get often enough:

That moment when you've just launched your new spaceplane/shuttle/rocket and take off, ascend to orbit, and prepare to dock for fuel. Only to realize you've put a mission-critical part on the wrong side of your decoupler, and that decoupler is resting on your docking port.

[corvustech]

That moment where you quick load because you thought you quick saved recently, only to discover that "recently" was hours ago and 500 or so science prior.