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[Rose]

Add me to the list, please.

[TheBronzePickle]

None successfully landed however, cancelling forward velocity still escapes me

Retrograde is your friend.

[techno65535]

Not just retrograde, you want to be on surface mode to cancel horizontal velocity.

[MarcAFK]

MY turn will come later tonight, I've been too busy at work to do the update on my break as i had planned :/

[LoSboccacc]

Mission 6 will even have reaction wheels available to it, so in the future Kerbals won't have to worry about their rockets flipping upside-down every time they try to leave the atmosphere.

Reaction wheels before solar panels are a cruel game design.

[Rose]

Mission 6 will even have reaction wheels available to it, so in the future Kerbals won't have to worry about their rockets flipping upside-down every time they try to leave the atmosphere.

Reaction wheels before solar panels are a cruel game design.

Yes, yes they are. Also, transmitting science takes so very much power.

[TheBronzePickle]

Thankfully, you do get batteries at the same time as reaction wheels, so worst case you can just strap a couple batteries to the wheel and discard both once you're done with them.

[mainiac]

Sign me up.  I'll do a pretty boring fuel to LEO milk run but somebody's gotta do those.

[MarcAFK]

Ok wish me luck, I'm going to probe eve!

[tryrar]

eh what the hell, I'm game, I've been playing the shit out of career mode and have been finding it awesome. I was thinking of sending a probe to Dres...

[IronTomato]

Ok wish me luck, I'm going to probe eve!

Damnit more taken ideas X(

Good luck.

[MarcAFK]

Excuse the lag, I've never sent anything to eve before and needed a few trial runs.

[Carnwennan]

Could I get a turn?  I suppose I could try getting more science from Minmus or something.

[IronTomato]

Excuse the lag, I've never sent anything to eve before and needed a few trial runs.

My advice: Don't actually complete orbit. Just burn so that your flight path turns toward the planet then hope you don't go in at Mach 12 and barely survive like me.

In any case, it uses up less fuel and is more awesome. I don't know how many people do this besides me, so excuse me if you already do it.

[TheBronzePickle]

If you have to go in at Mach 12, make sure your flight path goes through nothing but atmosphere. That way, worst case scenario, you end up shooting through the atmosphere without cratering yourself, and you've hopefully slowed down enough for a semi-orbit that will let you try again.