What was your first craft?

[DMSP]

Hi guys, what was your first craft?

I'll post a photo of mine if I find it!

[InterCity]

Honestly, you don't want to know. It was so awful that your eyes would burn.

But this is how I've done space stations before Kerbodyne and I'm not sure whether we had R&D (I think it was .20?)

[moogoob]

I think it was 90% fuel tank, 15% engine cluster and the only other two parts were a size-3 remote core and a nose cone. Reached escape velocity. Then I started learning of stuff like manouver nodes and navball markings and stopped trying to fly my missions like I was in Orbiter and my orbit inclinations and eccentricities improved significantly.

This is sort of it, but after I started trying out boosters and radial attachment points.

[Tinyboss]

Pretty sure mine was a capsule on top of an SRB. Not sure whether it had a decoupler or parachute.

[Rolanvorxariat]

A command pod with at least 40 boosters.

i was a very different person back then...

back in the old day, I messed around with war mods and boosters

now I do over engineered Duna colony missions.

[Spartwo]

Kinda like this. Don't have a screenshot anymore.

[Flixxbeatz]

This.

[cantab]

My first orbiter was lulzy. About 18 boosters at launch, because I didn't know the whole not breaking terminal velocity thing. Also, it was spin stabilised, with angled fins on the boosters.

[DMSP]

A command pod with at least 40 boosters.

i was a very different person back then...

back in the old day, I messed around with war mods and boosters

now I do over engineered Duna colony missions.

YES! That was me too! I used to use BD armory and now I just build Laythe Bases!

[Randazzo]

A dramatic re-creation of my first launch ever.

Dem stages...

[SkyRender]

The actual screenshot of my first-ever rocket never existed, because I never took a screenshot of it. But this was my first "serious" craft (ie. not built for the express purpose of blowing it up):

Even by the standards of 0.11, it's not much to look at. But it (mostly!) worked.

[GoSlash27]

This is the oldest surviving image from my fledgeling space program. This was not my first vehicle, but it achieved my first Kerbal in orbit and first spacewalk. I called it (unoriginally) "Moho/ Bluerock"

My first rocket would've looked similar, but with just a single SRB.

Best,

-Slashy

Edited February 8, 2015 by GoSlash27

[0jam3290]

This is my first orbiting rocket from the .13.3 demo:

And here's my first attempt at large planes from .15:

[CalculusWarrior]

Sadly, I don't have my first craft handy (as they were all in the old demo and I had not yet discovered the screenshot key), but here is a photo of my first attempted SSTO. Sadly, it never got into orbit, but it did look pretty cool.

Edited February 8, 2015 by CalculusWarrior

[SelectHalfling0]

I don't have a pic, but it was a mk1 plane cockpit on top of a fuel tank and a BACC booster. Also, it had 3 fins placed without symmetry (I didn't know how to use it). It was hysterical when it flipped out at ~100 meters.

[cantab]

Here we are, this was my first orbiter:

Speed and g at SRB burnout by cantab314, on Flickr

[ColourOfFire]

My first rocket was a bunch of solid rocket boosters, I had no idea how to play the game, first few attempts at leaving Kerbin ended in building stuff bigger and bigger, hit escape velocity and started thinking there should be another way...

[Guest]

Pretty much just an SRMcaek in the 0.13 demo, think a lot of people did that.

[problemecium]

I built my second craft and overwrote my first craft before I knew about screenshots, way back in 2011 or some such. Here's my oldest screenshot:

...never mind. I'll come back and post it later if I remember. I moved it to a backup drive and that's at home. xP

[Vanamonde]

Not my first, but the oldest one of which I still have a pic.

[TheRealRocket]

An orange fuel tank with a mainsail on the bottom. The top consisted of a MK1 pod and an atomic motor, to be decoupled when the main fuel ran out. I never realized that the nuke didn't have fuel until it was too late.

[zekes]

I don't have my first ship anymore, but this is my oldest screenshot i have.... May 2012.

Being a kerbal sea lord has been in my blood since the beginning, i guess.

[Loligoat]

I didn't even mean to take the screenshot. I had just started up the game for the first time and was pressing all the buttons to see what they'd do

[Demon_82]

My first ship was the Kerbal X, before I had any idea what I was doing, no image needed I guess xD

[Corw]

Oldest screenshot, not oldest rocket. Guess it was same but smaller