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[Neonivek]

How powerful do your engines have to be until you can toe the earth?

[nogoodnames]

Depends on how far/quickly you want to tow it.

Maybe not level-0 parts (I'm sure someone could, but thats crazy).

I've tried and I'm almost certain it's impossible, at least without upgrading the VAB and launchpad. You could maybe get suborbital if you managed to clip SRBs into each other so they act as explosive staging devices without interfering with thrust. I was able to get just above 20km before giving up.

[BFEL]

Gah, tried to check in on Interstellar to see how close it was to 1.0 compatibility and I have just no fucking idea. There's like 3 different threads now all with different versions of the mod. There's KSP Interstellar, KSP Interstellar EXTENDED, KSP Interstellar Cap Something Something Remembrance, the list goes on.
And they all recommend looking at each other for more up to date stuff or whatnot, in some recursive clusterfuck.

The "Extended" version looked promising, but it seems to require like 5 other mods to run, whereas the original was an all-in-one deal. Ugh, this is gonna give me a headache.

[forsaken1111]

How powerful do your engines have to be until you can toe the earth?

Unfortunately you can't, the planets are on rails and not movable.

[BFEL]

Why oh why did they split up the Explore missions for the Mun and Minmus? Didn't do it for the planets apparently, just takes up extra contracts I coulda filled with something else and it made my first Minmus mission CRAZY overengineered.

Also, Minmus missions should appear before Mun ones, seeing how much easier it is to get there.

[Aseaheru]

I think the lore for minimus might state that they dident really konw about it until they got to space, so...

[Greiger]

Yea and since the mun is closer it would probably generate some false bug reports from newbies who don't know closer does not necessarily mean easier.

[IronTomato]

I completed my first Explore Mun contract, but the game seems to have skipped Explore Minmus and gone straight to Explore Duna.

WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS

[forsaken1111]

I completed my first Explore Mun contract, but the game seems to have skipped Explore Minmus and gone straight to Explore Duna.

WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS

It may show up later, but did you go to Minmus SOI at any point?

[PTTG??]

You always get rewards for visiting planets, even if you don't have a specific contract. The contracts show up infrequently and add an extra reward to prod you...

[Karlito]

I completed my first Explore Mun contract, but the game seems to have skipped Explore Minmus and gone straight to Explore Duna.

I have explore Ike after explore Mun, but there's still plenty of contracts to transmit/return science or build bases on Minimus, so I'm not really complaining. I'm playing on a lower difficulty anyway, so its not like money is an issue.

[RedKing]

1.01 patch is out.

Spoiler: changelog (click to show/hide)

=================================== v1.0.1 ============================================================

Bug Fixes and Tweaks:

Thermal:
* Temperature gauge system.
* Vessels which are splashed will now have much higher convective coefficients making them cool to ambient temperature faster.
* Removed node size from being taken into account for stack occlusion. Added custom drag cubes for remaining hollow parts.
* Parachute heating/burning.
* Fix for bug in FI dealing with unpacking vessels at analytic warp (>=1000) rates.
* Fixed conduction on service bays. Added Module Conduction Modifier to help service bays not incinerate their contents & configs updated
* Updated emissivity for spaceplane configs.
* Lowered heat production on LV-N.

Resources:
* Replaced overheat mechanic of the ISRU and drills with a skill-based mechanic.
* Removed Overheat Throttle mechanic.
* Increased mass of Ore tanks to match wet/dry ratio of stock tanks.
* Aerodynamics
* New values for physics global drag and lift multipliers.
* Added a CoP offset calculation to procedural fairings
* Fix for the aero debug drag arrows switching directions. Added body lift arrows (cyan)
* Fixed occlusion on mk2 docking port.
* Fix for Laythe's atmosphere.

Solar Panels:
* Solar panels now use the proper inv square from FI's solar flux.
* Removed obsolete power curves from solar panels.
* Rebalanced solar panels against each other.

Career:
* Doing science at the flagPOLe, the north POLe, or the south POLe, will no longer mark Pol as visited with the progress tracker.
* Science contracts and science World Firsts can no longer be triggered with science gained by reverse engineering recovered vessels. You have to transmit or recover an actual experiment.
* Ensured that if a grand tour contract includes Kerbin, that Kerbin is chosen as the final stop on the tour.
* Capped amount of recovery contracts that can generate, but increased caps on station and base to increase contract variety.
* Fixed "On Wheels" optional side objective not triggering on outposts when utilizing the new fixed landing gears.
* ISRU contracts round their capacities up, to handle cases where the player brings exactly enough resource capacity.
* Use the word "spaceflight" instead of "flight" when appropriate, to prevent player mistaking certain things for atmospheric flight.
* If the game cannot find an agent listed in the save file, it will pick a random agent.
* Remove some debug information from survey waypoint generation.

Parts:
* Added Tier 0 rocket fin.
* Added RescaleFactor to the RT-5 (preventing a potential regression bug).
* Removed the allowstack option from the NBS and orbital scanners to fix a bug if they were used as the root part.
* Fixed an issue where the physicsSignificance flag was set to 1 for heat shields.
* Added an option to clamp the lower bound of the deploy pressure of parachutes.
* Adjusted parachutes to open at a slightly higher atmospheric pressure.
* Fixed fairings not initializing their masses in flight properly.
* Added module info section for fairings.
* Rebalanced engine entry costs.

Miscellaneous:
* Moved all Part Loader part info code into a separate method which is run after drag cubes are loaded/created. Thus modules can access the part’s drag cube information in their info.
* MapSO and CBAttributeMapSO methods made virtual and member variables protected.
* Made physics-less part mass effect KB mass value.
* Zero part count vessels will not be run through Flight Integrator.
* Increased mass on some wings.
* Fixed a nullref being caused when clicking between vessels and empty space in map view.
* Vessels that blow up in atmosphere properly kill off their crew members.
* Added Part temperature gauges/highlighting (toggle with F10).
* Part temperature overlay can now be toggled with F11
* Part aerodynamic forces overlay can now be toggled with F12

Some of these changes are terrifying. Like parachutes being able to burn off.
EDIT: Yep....that's going to be a problem. Gonna have to rely on atmospheric braking and deploy at much lower altitudes.

[IronTomato]

1.01 patch is out.

Spoiler: changelog (click to show/hide)

=================================== v1.0.1 ============================================================

Bug Fixes and Tweaks:

Thermal:
* Temperature gauge system.
* Vessels which are splashed will now have much higher convective coefficients making them cool to ambient temperature faster.
* Removed node size from being taken into account for stack occlusion. Added custom drag cubes for remaining hollow parts.
* Parachute heating/burning.
* Fix for bug in FI dealing with unpacking vessels at analytic warp (>=1000) rates.
* Fixed conduction on service bays. Added Module Conduction Modifier to help service bays not incinerate their contents & configs updated
* Updated emissivity for spaceplane configs.
* Lowered heat production on LV-N.

Resources:
* Replaced overheat mechanic of the ISRU and drills with a skill-based mechanic.
* Removed Overheat Throttle mechanic.
* Increased mass of Ore tanks to match wet/dry ratio of stock tanks.
* Aerodynamics
* New values for physics global drag and lift multipliers.
* Added a CoP offset calculation to procedural fairings
* Fix for the aero debug drag arrows switching directions. Added body lift arrows (cyan)
* Fixed occlusion on mk2 docking port.
* Fix for Laythe's atmosphere.

Solar Panels:
* Solar panels now use the proper inv square from FI's solar flux.
* Removed obsolete power curves from solar panels.
* Rebalanced solar panels against each other.

Career:
* Doing science at the flagPOLe, the north POLe, or the south POLe, will no longer mark Pol as visited with the progress tracker.
* Science contracts and science World Firsts can no longer be triggered with science gained by reverse engineering recovered vessels. You have to transmit or recover an actual experiment.
* Ensured that if a grand tour contract includes Kerbin, that Kerbin is chosen as the final stop on the tour.
* Capped amount of recovery contracts that can generate, but increased caps on station and base to increase contract variety.
* Fixed "On Wheels" optional side objective not triggering on outposts when utilizing the new fixed landing gears.
* ISRU contracts round their capacities up, to handle cases where the player brings exactly enough resource capacity.
* Use the word "spaceflight" instead of "flight" when appropriate, to prevent player mistaking certain things for atmospheric flight.
* If the game cannot find an agent listed in the save file, it will pick a random agent.
* Remove some debug information from survey waypoint generation.

Parts:
* Added Tier 0 rocket fin.
* Added RescaleFactor to the RT-5 (preventing a potential regression bug).
* Removed the allowstack option from the NBS and orbital scanners to fix a bug if they were used as the root part.
* Fixed an issue where the physicsSignificance flag was set to 1 for heat shields.
* Added an option to clamp the lower bound of the deploy pressure of parachutes.
* Adjusted parachutes to open at a slightly higher atmospheric pressure.
* Fixed fairings not initializing their masses in flight properly.
* Added module info section for fairings.
* Rebalanced engine entry costs.

Miscellaneous:
* Moved all Part Loader part info code into a separate method which is run after drag cubes are loaded/created. Thus modules can access the part’s drag cube information in their info.
* MapSO and CBAttributeMapSO methods made virtual and member variables protected.
* Made physics-less part mass effect KB mass value.
* Zero part count vessels will not be run through Flight Integrator.
* Increased mass on some wings.
* Fixed a nullref being caused when clicking between vessels and empty space in map view.
* Vessels that blow up in atmosphere properly kill off their crew members.
* Added Part temperature gauges/highlighting (toggle with F10).
* Part temperature overlay can now be toggled with F11
* Part aerodynamic forces overlay can now be toggled with F12

Some of these changes are terrifying. Like parachutes being able to burn off.
EDIT: Yep....that's going to be a problem. Gonna have to rely on atmospheric braking and deploy at much lower altitudes.

Sexcellent.

[BigD145]

http://www.dropbox.com/s/2jyyrqyxqfb9yn0/tour.jpg
If I have to do these in order....I hate you.

[forsaken1111]

http://www.dropbox.com/s/2jyyrqyxqfb9yn0/tour.jpg
If I have to do these in order....I hate you.

You can do them in any order. They tick off as you complete them I believe.