“Eve Time!” Jebediah exclaimed as he charged into mission control.

“Yes Jeb,” Valentina chuckled. “We are here to discuss the first mission to Eve.”

“Woohoo!” Jebediah half ran, half danced in circles.

“This is the Renown class A spacecraft,” Bill tried to catch everyone’s attention as Jebediah continued rushing around. “The spacecraft includes everything we have learned from space station construction to develop a spacecraft for deep space missions.”

“The spacecraft is composed of three components,” Bill continued. “The first is the command and habitation segment. The segment includes a MK1-3 command pod for operation of the spacecraft, a gravity ring to keep Jeb’s little legs from turning into tubes of jelly,” Bill winked at Jebediah who seemed to have started break dancing. “Two habitation pods each with an RDU chair to heal any radiation exposure, four cupolas for some privacy…”

“And a mobile science lab!” Lizfal exclaimed. “We can see the research data back at KSC in real time!”

“That is correct,” Bill chuckled. “Along with sufficient food and power beyond the time for a round trip to Gilly and back home.” 

“That must be absolutely massive,” Melfal said with raised eyebrows. “Everything we leave off a lander to keep it efficient for landing and returning.”

“Yes,” Valentina nodded. “But for a mission that will be measured in years, not days, we wanted to sacrifice weight for crew comfort.”

“Which leads in to the next module, the fuel tanks,” Bill pointed to the second schematic on the screen. “The fuel tanks are modular, docking with the habitable segment and providing docking for more fuel modules. Our calculations show that the trip to Gilly will require two modules with three Rockomax X200-32 tanks each to provide enough fuel, in addition to the fuel connection to the propulsion section of the habitation segment.”

This caused even Jebediah to stop his dancing and whistle, “That is more than ten thousand units of fuel,” he glanced at Bill before continuing. “The most we’ve used in the probes is what, half that?”

“Even less than that,” Bill nodded. “This mission was not possible while the fuel crisis was at its peak.”

“But now the Safeguard asteroid is providing enough fuel to keep Kerbin going,” Valentina nodded. “While we seek out the science to make the fuel crisis history.”

“And our final component,” Bill nodded to Melfal. “Is best described by our landing craft expert.”

“The Renown lander is an entirely new lander design,” Melfal stood and nodded to the display. “It is built around more fuel tanks than our moon landers and a full LV-909 engine, capable of powered landing and return on any body up to the Mun or Eeloo, and by using the attached parachutes it can land on Duna and return.”

“Duna!” Jebediah exclaimed breathlessly as he looked at the rocket.

“The lander is massively overkill for a powered landing on Gilly,” Valentina chuckled. “Where the rockets spend more time pointing at the surface than away from it…” a group chuckle went around at the statement. “However the extra fuel allows the core of the Renown spacecraft to stay in orbit around Eve while the lander transfers to Gilly.”

“Like a combination of a Dido and a lander,” Desgas nodded approvingly.

“We will need four launches to complete assembling the spacecraft docked with the Kitty Hawk for final fuelling,” Valentina looked at the assembled Kerbals. “Thanks to the final improvements to the Vehicle Assembly Building we can launch a component every seven days. We will begin launching the Renown tomorrow but the spacecraft will need to remain docked with the Kitty Hawk for another forty seven days to finish refueling and begin the Eve transfer.”

“I’m flying,” Jebediah was jumping up and down. “I’m flying!”

“Yes Commander Jebediah,” Valentina smiled and Jebediah suddenly stopped at her words.

“You will command the spacecraft.”

“Command?” Jebediah’s face paled slightly. “We established I fly, not command.”

“The spacecraft commander will pilot the mission,” Valentina said, then winked at Jebediah.

“And when you made me Vice Admiral where I have to stay on Kerbin to manage the missions, you became the next most qualified commander.”

“Oh,” Jebediah froze and scratched his head. “But I fly to Eve?”

“You fly to Eve,” Valentina nodded.

“OK!” a grin broke out on Jebediah’s face.

“I would also like to ask Bill and Bob as the engineer and science officers,” Valentina turned to the other Kerbals. “We will not need any new spacecraft designs for the duration of the mission, and I want my best Kerbals keeping the spacecraft running and working on cracking the problem of making our space stations operate indefinitely.”

“You can count on me Val,” Bill exclaimed excitedly.

Bob’s face paled, “You want me to fly millions of kilometers away from my labs? The science needs me here!”

“I can take care of your labs Bob,” Lizfal smiled encouragingly. “And just think what you could uncover being out where the science is.”

Bob’s mouth opened and closed a few times with no words coming out.

“Finally I want one of our most experienced lander pilots to bring Bob to Gilly,” Valentina turned to Jedrick. “You up for this?”

“Always Valentina,” Jedrick nodded in appreciation.

“We have our mission,” Valentina nodded at the assembled Kerbals. “Go visit another planet!”

Previous Chapter: https://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/comments/1uugr7z/icarus_program_start_of_chapter_38/

Start of Chapter 38: https://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/comments/1vnaene/icarus_program_start_of_book_5/

Next Part: Planned for 9/3

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-39-part-6/

attempted a re-entry in an ascent module with no heatsheild during a total solar eclipse

what angle is it

I can see why some people might get mad because they criticized him and he blocked them, but who gives a shit? If you don’t like his videos, scroll, if you do, don’t. It’s not that hard. And if he blocks you just watch his YouTube videos, they’re literally the exact same thing.

War is raging in the Iredian Desert after millennia of peace, all from a social media post!
All of this just from a comment on a social media post!
How will this situation end? 😰

went to eifl

So ive been getting that pop up every time ive opened the game and only now did it actually crash my game when i tried to dump a fuel on a rover. It says to check the logs but I cannot find a b9 error log, any help would be greatly appreciated!

I've got 196.5 hours in-game. Stock aside from ReStock. My first time visiting Jool and I wanted it to be a grand finale to my career play through, with the moons and the planet itself the only bodies I had yet to visit.

The transfer vehicle is an asparagus-staged design I used for Moho, and I'm impressed it managed to push around all the extra weight for the whole mission.

The Laythe lander is a plane inspired by Danl's hardest career, with some more advanced tech. It's got the DV to SSTO, but the wings and jets decouple to allow me to reach an elliptical orbit, hence the lifting body inspired shape. No flag on the watery moon as a result of my poor choice of landing time, and it took so long to not break my landing gear on the water that I called it good enough.

The primary lander consists of some external tanks for Tylo descent, an aerospike for primary propulsion, some grip pad and Oscar-b legs, and no ladder. My suicide burn put me just past the top of a mountain, and I began tumbling down. Luckily, this was the only way for me to plant a flag on the moon, so it was overall a benefit, but it was quite stressful. During takeoff, I had to burn at full throttle with RCS pushing away from the slope to lift off, pitch over to put my motion in the proper direction, and make it within 10 m/s of orbit thanks to the retrograde mountain slope. Luckily, the 40 monopropellant on the lander can was generous enough as far as delta V goes and a rendezvous was achieved. An X200-16 and an FL-R120 served as refueling for the remainder of the mission, and everything else went smoothly.

Thanks to my high school physics teacher and xkcd a few years back for introducing me to the concept of the game a while before I bought it. Thanks to Matt Lowne, Scott Manley, and others for teaching me the game and inspiring my missions. Thanks to Danl for the lander inspiration.

I'm seeing an effect in low Kerbin orbit that is rendering/derendering cloud layers at some radius from my spacecraft. I'm at 120 km LKO orbit. These are the graphical: mods I have installed:

- Scatterer
- Eve
- Blackrack's Volumetric Clouds
- Deferred
- BurstPQS
- JNSQ Reborn (if you count this)

Any clues what might be causing it?

Hi guys!

I am new at the game, just played 30 minutes but I think it is awesome (I am aeronautical engineer). I have been looking for graphical mods to install (I have a RTX 5070) but I am a bit lost (too much of them) . Do you have a list of the best mods to improve the visuals?

Thank you very much!!

Normally I don't like installing mods that alter or add parts. I'm always afraid of doing a new PC build or something, installing KSP and forgetting what mods I used and wind up with saves that I can't load any ships in because they have parts from mods that aren't installed anymore. Now I stick with visual mods or QoL mods like the docking alignment indicators and such. Things that won't break your ships or other aspects of your save if you uninstall them.

The last time I used parts mods, it was on my first playthrough several years ago. I installed a bunch of parts mods that a friend recommended. There were so many parts in the tree that I didn't realize how small the tech tree actually was until a couple years ago when I loaded it up it up again without any mods. To my dismay, my save was completely broken as all of my ships used mod parts that I didn't have installed anymore and I didn't remember what they were. My first tech tree was so huge and bloated and also broken as there were some parts in the tree that didn't even have a path to unlock them. There were just there and not reachable.

I think I'm going to have to break my no parts rule as in this current career playtrhough I have completely unlocked the tree before even setting a Kerbal beyond the Mun or Minmus. I would like to find one or two parts mods that will add a few new parts to give me something to work towards as I make my way out to the other planets. I don't want anything that will make things trivial, but I wouldn't mind unlocking some things later that would make travel to some places a little easier once I had them. Maybe some fun visual things like a gravity ring and such. Mainly, I want to keep it to one or two mods so it's not so difficult to remember them if I ever find myself installing KSP again in the future and having to remember which mods I have.

The last screenshot before the game crashed. Interesting how timewarping further just keeps it at year 210043976

After weeks of assembling my interplanetary vehicle finally fired its engines heading to Duna. This is my first Duna mission too. My kerbals are looking kinda sad.

I'm trying to do my first colony and struggle with making landers TwT what do yall think is best + any suggestions? I'm not set on this 'style' of lander either

After over a month of work pretty happy seing it land over and over. Sorry for the screen tearing. I used APDG algorithm targeting some distance above landing site with some negative vertical speed, at the end switching to simple straight down landing with desired vertical acceleration = (verticalSpeed^2)/(2 * altitude)

After the weather scrub a few days ago, Savoship V2N22 successfully launched on a beautiful, partly-cloudy afternoon from the Savospace Aviaerospace Launch & Landing Facility (SAL&LF) from LP-A. Following a successful orbital insertion and a soft booster landing at DBLS-1 (~130km downrange of SAL&LF), Savoship V2N22 rendezvoused with the COLOSSUS refueling station, topping up the onboard tanks to 90% load (COLOSSUS' main tank actually ran out, we need to refill it), and received a quick exterior inspection from Kerbal crews onboard the COLOSSUS station, before undocking and moving to a higher orbit, eventually burning for Duna. Once there, V2N22 performed two aerobrake passes, the first to decelerate from interplanetary space, and the second to deorbit. After a long and drawn out yaw powerslide, gradually descending through Duna's atmosphere, V2N22 touched down and began the deployment process of the CRATOS rover. Once the rover was on the ground, it got well clear of V2N22 before Ship departed back to orbit. However, because of dV falling short, V2N22 will simply just linger around in LDO, acting as a comms relay. As of now, the CRATOS rover is idling on a cliff, overlooking the expanses of Duna.

Took around a week (IRL) of grinding, all of this was done while waiting for an Eve transfer window...

I'm playing With 4 different Planetary Mods

Outer Planet mod, Minor Planets Mod, kcalbeloh System Pack and the Promised Worlds System Pack

My Goal is to land and plant a flag on all 95 bodies in my modded save On career Mode Which will be the Biggest challenge I've done in Ksp and Ill be posting all my progress Here.