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Kerbal Space Program? Anyone?
Jimor:
New space station, and lots more docking practice. Though it's funny, I've gotten so used to slugging around massive objects, that when I went to dock the "escape" pods on the docking tree pointing off the side, I had trouble with how twitchy they were even with fine controls on.
I have an idea for a video let's play that I think will be pretty unique, but I'll need to install another hard drive to have room for the files.
cesium133:
Landed a manned mission on Duna for the first time, and it's mostly intact. The bad news is that the part it lost is the docking port it needs to connect to the service module in orbit for the fuel to return to Kerbin. Oh, and its parachutes, too.
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Jimor:
Rescue mission time!
cesium133:
Yeah, I have to decide how to do it. I have at least enough fuel to get into orbit, and possibly enough to get into an encounter with Kerbin. One thing I'm considering is to get into an encounter with Kerbin, and while in the encounter, launch the rescue mission, where I'd try to get close enough to transfer the crew by EVA (can't dock, of course). The issue there would be I almost certainly wouldn't have enough fuel to get into a stable orbit around Kerbin, so to match speeds, I'd have to accelerate the rescue ship to escape velocity, then once the crew is transferred slow it down again (hopefully before it leave the sphere of influence). There would be little tolerance for error on that.
I suppose the easier option would be simply to get into Duna orbit, then send the rescue mission all the way to Duna orbit and transfer the crew there.
Jimor:
Getting an intersect on a hyperbolic trajectory would be epic!
Hmmm, thinking about it, if you could get the ship to be rescued to hit an encounter with Minmus or Mun when they're on the approach side to Kerbin, you could park your rescue ship in orbit there, adjust orbit for an intersect, burn like crazy to catch up, transfer crew, then you'd have time to slow down before nearing Kerbin. It would actually be a really good scenario to suggest to one of the YouTubers like Scott Manley.
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