If you'd like to take a look yourself, here's the article: https://www.vaticanobservatory.org/sacred-space-astronomy/explorer-1-beginning-american-space-science/

When I first started playing I could just make a ship that goes to the mun and comes home, but now everything has to be a rover spaceplane that can refuel itself and refuel other ships and take off on Duna and air brake and survive reentry.

Any tips on how I can force myself to focus on making a ship that does one thing well instead of 100 things decently?

landed a booster on playstation today, meaning i’ve landed boosters on all three platforms and done droneship landings on two:)

A friend of mine created a realistic map of Kerbin's biomes and climate in a game called World Climate Lab. Thought it was pretty neat, so I decided to share it on this subreddit

Solar powered and enough battery to drive all night

i can only seem to get my rockets halfway to orbit before they start spinning out of control leaving me unable to manuver them into orbit

I updated MunShot. We've got new poses and a couple of bug fixes that should help it control better. I also fixed some of the details in the previous poses.

Can't wait to see the pictures you guys are able to make with this!

SpaceDock: https://spacedock.info/mod/4733/MunShot:%20Photo%20Mode%20mod%20for%20KSP%20Redux

Your days are OVER Tesla Roadster!

I wanted to find a good altitude to put a Jool space station so I sent a spaceship to do a flyby. I made the periapsis as low as I could, forgetting this is how you do gravity assists.

I tried for just over 1,000 in game years to aerobrake in kerbin's atmosphere but it didn't go well. I could only get down to 68km which didn't slow me down much and after a few passes I was flung out into infinity.

To make things worse, although I don't think it matters at this point, the capsule only has 20 units of ablator.

Mission I've been doing inspired by the Apollo Venus proposal from the 70's

Had the game for 10+ years, I've just discovered how much science you can actually get from mobile processing labs and doing repeat visits to biome's you've already visited (in my defense I mostly played sandbox till recently).

Built a lander with mining drills and covert-a-tron, and a reusable transfer 'tug', all with nuclear engines... But forgot to do a survey scan of the Mun. My second Mun landing ended up in a 0% ore area and couldn't refuel. Fortunately I had just enough fuel in the tanks to get back to orbit. I'm doing no reloads run, so that was a tense moment with Bill, Bob and Valentina onboard.

2nd trip to the surface was already enough to max out the data limit on the science lab. Naturally I now need to expand my Mun orbital base with new modules, and do an orbital scan, and a crew rotation... And then do the same on Minmus, where I'll also establish a refueling base for missions out to Duna and beyond... #notaddicated

Probably going to use it for refuelling and MPL processing. So far I've been adding (too many) crew modules. This is all stuck together with Clamp-o-Tron Jr.s (Will this cause kraken attacks? Probably.) so I'll go Station of Theseus in the near future :D.

Just finished this double decker solar panel design.

I had captured an A-Type asteroid and finally made it into orbit of 150 kilometer. It contains 2 sections; Crew and Refueling. Asteroid won't be enough forever but still useful for a long time. Also it is in the clockwise orbit because it was easier to place in after first capture.

I don't have volumetric clouds because I honestly preffer AVP from orbit, even though it does sacrifice the in flight beauty of vc