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[KaelGotDwarves]

I'd say that more than half the fun of this game not occupied by building giant deathtrap rockets and watching ginormous explosions is simply watching the faces of the Kerman brothers as they become the first Kerbals in SPAAAAAAAAAACE!

[andrea]

Orbit! I am orbiting!  And I even have some fuel left.

not enough to get back to earth, sure, but it is fuel.
these brave kerbals died in the lonely cold of space for us all. Lets praise them.
( and launch a rescue rocket maybe)

[Lightning4]

Don't forget the fun of building just barely functioning rockets that are practically ready to shake apart every second of liftoff yet somehow stay together and upright. Makes you want to scream along with Bob and Bill.

[Supercharazad]

Woot! The next version will have symmetry and putting parts betwee other parts! And fuel flows through couplers now1

[Sordid]

Fantastic.

In other news, contrary to what was said earlier in the thread it appears it is indeed possible to escape the gravity well. My speed has stopped decreasing some time ago and currently I'm 25 000 K away from Kerbal. Bob and Bill are shitting their spacepants, Jeb doesn't seem to be bothered at all. Also contrary to what was said earlier, opening the chute does nothing in space.

[RF]

So apparently the limit of draw distance is 1500K. Kerbal has now disappeared from my universe. Still coasting at 5000 m/s towards the sun. Unsurprisingly, Jeb is happy about this.

Ship design?

[vagel7]

I am 4000K away and I still loose speed, very little though. EVerybody is happy.

[Dsarker]

Wait, is it possible to switch liquid engines on and off?

[Rakonas]

Wait, is it possible to switch liquid engines on and off?

Shift and control, but I doubt that's what you're asking.

[Aqizzar]

Shift and Control are the liquid engine throttle.  If you throttle all the way back, the liquids shut off completely, and can be restarted later (with the throttle, not Spacebar).  I managed to float most of the way around the planet by constantly rotating up and down and throttling on and off to maintain altitude.  Bear in mind that the higher you get, the less resistance there is, so for orbital station-keeping and course corrections, a little dab'll do ya on the throttle.

[Dsarker]

Cool, didn't know that before.

[Sordid]

So apparently the limit of draw distance is 1500K. Kerbal has now disappeared from my universe. Still coasting at 5000 m/s towards the sun. Unsurprisingly, Jeb is happy about this.

Ship design?

Oh dear... um... not really sure, now that most of it's burned up in the atmosphere. My space program has issues. I'll try to recreate it from memory.

[RF]

So apparently the limit of draw distance is 1500K. Kerbal has now disappeared from my universe. Still coasting at 5000 m/s towards the sun. Unsurprisingly, Jeb is happy about this.

Ship design?

Oh dear... um... not really sure, now that most of it's burned up in the atmosphere. My space program has issues. I'll try to recreate it from memory.

Save and post it, if you would. I wanna see if it's possible to hit the sun by flying far enough.

[Sordid]

I made it all the way to 40000 K before I got bored and terminated the crew flight and I didn't seem to be getting closer at all.

Anyway, ship: http://www.mediafire.com/?o9a47b5i98p415p
Requires the additional parts linked to in the OP (namely the 2+1 Stack Couplers).

Engage SAS, throttle to 100%, and let 'er rip! The final stage will require some minor course corrections as it doesn't have a dedicated SAS module and the one in the Command Module is not powerful enough to keep it going straight; you should be going over 5300 m/s by the time the last of the fuel runs out. Detach the CM and coast.

Edit: Updated the ship a bit to hopefully reduce the wobble and stop it knocking its nozzles off. If it disintegrates, just try again. She'll hold together eventually.

[Aqizzar]

For more laughs, I recommend checking out the Kerbal SP thread over on Something Awful.  Not least because it's where most of the extra mod parts came from.  And crazy shit like this.

Spoiler: Pics (click to show/hide)

Note that the pad is on the left.