illectro Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 Stranded in orbit, out of fuel, RCS exhausted and with a perikee of 74km, tantalizingly close to the atmosphere that could help them aerobrake home. Jeb is back at mission control, but he informs the crew of a crazy plan that might just bring them home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ydoow Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 The voice.I am scared. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xazas Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 Very good Video and nice spoken comments. It was realy entertaining to watch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberion Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 Scott\'s videos are always great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illectro Posted March 21, 2012 Author Share Posted March 21, 2012 Why thank you sir, I\'m glad people enjoy my work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
semininja Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 Your voice is awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferrit Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Good grief! It works!Nice save there good sir! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gojira Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 holy crap that\'s genius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baleur Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 'Lets just hope they have enough oxygen to get them all the way there.'Lets face it, they don\'t. ;DWhat is that mod btw, with the interface stuff on the right side? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgtblazing Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 'Lets just hope they have enough oxygen to get them all the way there.'Lets face it, they don\'t. ;DWhat is that mod btw, with the interface stuff on the right side?It\'s the latest mech jeb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve5451 Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 I\'ve thought about this but I\'ve never had a reason to use it. :SAnd in the rare event that I\'ve run out of fuel in orbit (only once...and it was Jeb\'s crew :\'( ) I would just get rid of the extra boosters.Maybe that would have been able to save them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buzz Lovell Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Great vid!! Very clever!!PS How do you get the orbital info pane up? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4 IN 1 Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 You sounds like going to burst out into laughter any time in the video Scott ;D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illectro Posted March 23, 2012 Author Share Posted March 23, 2012 'Lets just hope they have enough oxygen to get them all the way there.'Lets face it, they don\'t. ;DWhat is that mod btw, with the interface stuff on the right side?The plugin is Mechanical Jeb - that\'s in the first line of narration As for oxygen.... it\'s annoying following the aerobraking because the time acceleration keeps resetting on every pass. But after 4 1/2 days they had dropped into a 64x300km orbit and the game crashed with too many heap sections. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elven_sword Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 I\'ve done this on several occasions- from munar orbit. It took days of IRL waiting, but we finally made it home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illectro Posted March 26, 2012 Author Share Posted March 26, 2012 I\'ve done this on several occasions- from munar orbit. It took days of IRL waiting, but we finally made it home.You used rocket rotation to impart the deorbit velocity to the capsule? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sting_auer Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 Next step?Make a rocket extremely bottom heavy. with a lot of RCS on it to make it spin insanely fast. Get into orbit around the Mun, and launch the capsule back to Kerbin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elven_sword Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 You used rocket rotation to impart the deorbit velocity to the capsule?Yeah, I put a small weight on the W key, and waited. I did have a long craft, actually a space station in Munar orbit. When a rogue LFE took out a solar panel, I had to return. There was a small escape stage, but it was designed for use on the launchpad. I fired it, and that did f-all, because I forgot to decouple the capsule from the station. The station was REALLY long, and I still had a little RCS fuel, as I used it to rotate VERY fast instead of holding down H forever. Once I had obtained a satisfactory velocity, I decoupled toward Kerbin, and then turned warp to 10000x and went to bed. The next day, I found myself with a periapsis of 60k on kerbin, and pulled the chute. MET: 234 days, 5 hrs, and 34 seconds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illectro Posted March 28, 2012 Author Share Posted March 28, 2012 I can\'t just hold down one key, for some reason even my simple rockets start to roll so I have to manually control the ship to keep the roll in check. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redrumsalad Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 If you look closely...Jeb isn\'t even in the Command Pod =PGreat vid tho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illectro Posted March 29, 2012 Author Share Posted March 29, 2012 Yeah, in the narration I explain that they have to radio back to mission control to get help from Jeb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshua21B Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 I wonder which one was chosen to be eaten during the long wait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jake118533 Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 wait, is this Scotts KSP forum account? HI SCOTT!!! =P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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