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[Skyrunner]

Built a strange VTOL base.

I intended for it to use the swiveling engines to land, but it turned out that the abdominal tank had enough fuel to land it upright and then tip over on its legs. It has capacity for 6 kerbals, and was designed to fulfil the station on Mun/Minmus contracts.

This design has enough fuel to return to Kerbin from Minmus! I used the VTOL engines to get into orbit, fairly cool but impractical xD

[MarcAFK]

Bumpy runway why :I
Seriously it can't be too difficult to pat down a flat dirt road. The Romans managed it.

Romans invented engineering

I saw a similar design being used in Afghanistan recently.

[smjjames]

Can anybody help with the questions that I have a bit earlier?

I'm wondering in particular how to cram a rover into one of those containers in KAS without catalogueing each piece.

You can't unless you also use Part Welder and even then I'm not sure it will work. KAS only deals in individual parts.

What would the point of the containers be then?

[BigD145]

Can anybody help with the questions that I have a bit earlier?

I'm wondering in particular how to cram a rover into one of those containers in KAS without catalogueing each piece.

You can't unless you also use Part Welder and even then I'm not sure it will work. KAS only deals in individual parts.

Containers have a symmetrical center of mass no matter what you put into it. A rover might not.
What would the point of the containers be then?

[alway]

Is there anyone making modpacks or is using mods TES-style painful?

From what I recall, modpacks are more or less disallowed by design to avoid minecraft style modpack drama. However, any decent mod is really easy to put in; just download it, drag over the stuff in game data, and it just works (and generally without breaking saves so long as you aren't overwriting any duplicate mods or such). The tricky part is figuring out which ones you like; but since they generally don't break saves when adding new stuff, you can always add some, try them out, then come back later to add more. And even if you end up not liking a mod, they tend to be fairly safe to remove (in that it automatically deletes any craft with unavailable parts, instead of crashing or otherwise dying a horrible death like Minecraft would).

[smjjames]

Can anybody help with the questions that I have a bit earlier?

I'm wondering in particular how to cram a rover into one of those containers in KAS without catalogueing each piece.

You can't unless you also use Part Welder and even then I'm not sure it will work. KAS only deals in individual parts.

Containers have a symmetrical center of mass no matter what you put into it. A rover might not.
What would the point of the containers be then?

I mean what would the point be if you can't put the structural parts in. NASA packed the moon rover into a box the size of a suitcase (well ok, a suitcase may be exaggeration, but they did pack it into a container) and I would also like to be able to easily get a rover onto another planet or moon as well.

[TwilightWalker]

Can anybody help with the questions that I have a bit earlier?

I'm wondering in particular how to cram a rover into one of those containers in KAS without catalogueing each piece.

You can't unless you also use Part Welder and even then I'm not sure it will work. KAS only deals in individual parts.

Containers have a symmetrical center of mass no matter what you put into it. A rover might not.
What would the point of the containers be then?

I mean what would the point be if you can't put the structural parts in. NASA packed the moon rover into a box the size of a suitcase (well ok, a suitcase may be exaggeration, but they did pack it into a container) and I would also like to be able to easily get a rover onto another planet or moon as well.

Perhaps Hangars are what you're looking for? Otherwise, yeah, you're going to need to put the rover into the KAS storage units piece by piece.

[smjjames]

Ooh yeah, that sounds perfect actually, thanks.

[Putnam]

They were already confirmed for after 0.90 a while back, but here's a twitter statement saying that deep space refueling (resources) and aerodynamic overhaul are in the next version.

[Guardian G.I.]

I've screwed up the landing procedures and now my unmanned Munar lander is in horisontal position:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Is there any way to get it back to orbit without crashing it into terrain or having to launch a manned recovery mission? I don't want to lose the science or replay the landing again.

[Skyrunner]

If you have RCS, try using that and your reaction wheels to right it. Maybe folding and unfolding the legs could help too.

[Guardian G.I.]

If you have RCS, try using that and your reaction wheels to right it. Maybe folding and unfolding the legs could help too.

That helped me, thank you.

EDIT: accidentially reverted to earlier autosave, but I managed to land the craft properly without tipping it over and with a bit more fuel remaining.

[PrivateNomad]

Played career mode for the first time.
SHITS HARD

[Rose]

Now play hard mode.

Yolo

Or rather

Ykolo

[MarcAFK]

Now play hard mode.

Yolo

Or rather

Ykolo

Hardmode is best mode.

Oh god where is my funding, Jeb's dead, the Kraken killed him, why, shit, oh shit, no reverts, Success! Damn I'm still brokethough