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Kerbal Space Program? Anyone?
Jimor:
And if you start to get discouraged, here's a real astronaut failing to get into orbit in KSP. :-P
(To be fair, there's a fair amount of game experience we take for granted, like a natural use of WASD for example.)
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHjaqeeoAKk
Jimor:
Building up my support fleet for the Jool station.
Train with the 3 extra fuel tanks, RCS lower extention, and 2 tugs being pulled by a 4-nuke-engine tug. This will be enough to "complete" the station, but most of the orange tanks will be empty by then. When it was full, it weighed in at 184 tonnes.
So here's 1 of the resupply tanks I'll send with the fleet. No idea yet how many I'll need to top off the station, though it's looking like it will get there with maybe half the fuel left, so perhaps 6 will do.
The main station has left Kerbin influence, but with the nuclear engines, it takes several passes to get enough delta-V for the full trip, so here's the current orbits of the parts train, and 2 fuel tanks (the 3 highly eccentric orbits). That represents about 1/3 of the total delta-V to get to Jool, the rest of which I'll supply on a long burn at Periapsis for each of them. I'll probably have time to get a couple more fuel tanks in orbit while waiting.
cesium133:
Last night I sent my new design to Duna. Made it into orbit successfully with plenty of fuel left. Then I realized I forgot to put a control pod on the orbiting module, so it became debris as soon as I separated the landing module. Then I stupidly clicked "End Flight" instead of "Space Center." At that point I decided it was time to quit playing for the night.
Jimor:
I learned the hard way that even if it isn't space junk, wait a bit before ending the mission of a ship you've just undocked. I undocked a refueling drone, switched to it, hit end mission, and my whole station disappeared (fortunately not anything as involved as the ones I've been showing).
cesium133:
I just succeeded at a robotic round-trip to Duna. Next step, some lucky Kerbals will take one small step and Kerbalkind will take one giant leap on Duna.
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