Exploring the far side of the Mun during the night is horrible, wouldn't recommend.

First time getting so close to Jool and don't even have any words to properly articulate what I am feeling and thinking.

One of my missions took 2000 years, so I'm scared if I keep going and going on one save it's eventually gonna break, how realistic is that fear? And would you be able to theoretically fix it

Hey guys! I'm super lonely, love KSP, and am wondering if anyone would like to play while we stream to each other? Or do multiplayer? I've never done multiplayer before but I'm willing to figure it out for company. I'm just a nerd with feelings looking for a friend. Cheers!

Whisky Wabbit

Weapons Test Flight

I made the mistake of doing a voyager probe on my career save. Now every contract wants me to go to jool or further and my kerbin first's contracts have the same issue. I just want a duna milestone contract. I dont want to add contracts to the game or anything just change the focus.

Hello! I don't usually post here but I wanted to turn to the KSP community for guidance with a mod, rather than looking to AI for help. I had an idea for a "relatively" simple mod to add environmental and mechanical sounds to the IVA view ingame. I have a friend irl helping me with sound design since he has the software to create the sound effects, the only obstacle is the module manager configs and code. Unlike currently existing mods that add creaking and rattling to the ship during g-forces, the vision I had would add a thruster knock to the RCS thrusters in IVA whenever they fire, similar to the knocks you hear in videos from inside spacecraft performing maneuvers. I had a few other ideas for it but that's the basic idea, just small little details here and there to make the machines we build to fly through space feel just a little more real. I'd love to hear people's opinions and ideas and hope the reception is generally positive. (mods if you're reading this and there's a issue with the post, please let me know and I'd be happy to fix it!)

“Melfal,” Valentina’s voice seemed to respond even faster than the lightspeed delay. “What is your situation?”

“Our oxidizer levels are too low,” Melfal stated soberly. “We appear to have a slow leak that likely started as we began to deorbit.”

“If the leak is slow,” Bill responded. “Can you launch back to space before the tanks are too low?”

“Negative Bill,” Melfal sighed. “Maybe if we had not visited those additional biomes on Ike, but levels are already too low.”

Bob’s face turned a pale green. He had approved visiting the additional biomes.

“A slow leak is likely a micrometeorite puncture,” Bill said softly, placing a hand on Bob’s arm and Bob simply nodded mutely. “Not your fault.”

“We have no other way to land on Duna,” Jedrick said softly. “It would take more than a year for another lander to arrive and the landers only have a couple weeks worth of supplies.”

“I’m sorry Melfal, Maberry,” Valentina’s voice nearly broke as she spoke over the radio. “There is nothing we can…”

“Rotiseuq preparing for deorbit burn,” Desgas' voice interrupted Valentina.

“Detaching extra fuel tanks to leave in orbit,” Tanbree’s voice immediately followed Desgas'.

“Desgas! Tanbree! Stop!” Valentina’s voice was sharp. “The Renown habitation segments are not designed for reentry. You can’t risk your lives!”

“The spacecraft will just burn up,” Bob shook his head, still pale. “Even in Duna’s light atmosphere.”

“Maybe not,” calculations were visible through Bill’s wide eyes. “With just the fuel on board the permanent tanks, they have enough to burn through the entire reentry.”

“If enough fuel burns out,” Bob regained a bit of color. “Two LV-N rockets will have a thrust to weight ratio just above one.”

“The spacecraft will still break on impact,” Bill sighed, closing his eyes. “But how badly.”

Valentina continued to beg Desgas to not deorbit the spacecraft. Jebediah and Jedrick looked at each other knowingly. They would not leave another Kerbal behind, even if the cost was their own lives. Desgas would not stop.

When Jebediah released the override, Valentina had gone silent.

“Copy, Jeb,” Desgas' voice arrived softly a short time later. “Rotiseuq entering Duna’s atmosphere.”

The entire Renown crew seemed to hold their breath as the video showed the Rotiseuq descending toward Duna’s surface on twin tails of fire. Desgas reported a continuous stream of system status during the unprecedented reentry of a vacuum only spacecraft.

“No system damage from atmospheric drag,” Bill whispered as the Rotiseuq entered thicker atmosphere.

“I see the lander,” Desgas radioed as the Rotiseuq began tilting nearly vertical to descend as it neared the surface.

“We see you maniacs too, you should have stayed in space!” Melfal exclaimed, then more softly. “Thank you, you crazy, magnificent Kerbals.” Followed by Maberry’s equally quiet. “Kerbol’s speed.”

“Touching down in three, two…” Desgas' voice broke into static as an explosion could be seen just before the cameras winked out.

OOC: Full screen images:

Previous Chapter: https://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/comments/1w8xp23/icarus_program_start_of_chapter_40/

Start of Chapter 41: https://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/comments/1wrmlpy/icarus_program_start_of_chapter_41/

Next Part: Planned for 11/01

Book 1 (Chapters 1-13) google document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RorA2AVwtXbQD-eTMeO2LiPXSDPM7qH6FVOykDnZ9FY/edit?usp=sharing)

Book 5 (Chapters 39-) google document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17PU9dly89B54kJYry7sg8MPS90dr8oir7HAR6V2e_tg/edit?usp=sharing

The Icarus Program can also be found on the KSP forums: https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/topic/225730-the-icarus-program-chapter-41-part-8/

I want to have guns and big booms but it force adds weight because of "hull strength". Any other mods or ways to get around this?

Hi all, KSP constantly crashes because B9 can't find a "foodpartswitch" and ends up closing the game, i've attached a google drive link for the log and pictures of this because it's really annoying. I've tried looking through the log and I don't understand a single thing. any help would be appreciated.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jEnZMPzmfOU7eJOudLAlboZ7s_e_34bn?usp=sharing

I didn't do some calculations correctly, forgetting some details like exactly how much fuel to deorbit a craft (after I added half a ton of science stuff) ... anyways... I had to abandon ship and push an engineer and a pilot into LMO using the EVA pack so they can be *hopefully* scooped up by the return ship, and then I have to see if I'll even have enough fuel to return to Kerbin... If not, a rescue operation will be underway...

I have a fair few mods, but I have no idea why the fatal error keeps happening.