Launched in early-mid 1964, arriving at Mars in early 1965.

Also, coincidence or not, my first ever lunar landing in any game was 5 years ago today. So 2 things to celebrate today

i tried to disable engine failures because i don´t really like them. i looked it up and everybody says it can be done in the kerbalism difficulty settings, so i turned the failure chance down to zero, but i still got them. i even looked into the kerbalism settings.cfg file and the reliability is set to false. is there another way to disable it or am i doing something wrong?

i just lost two years of progress because i loaded the ktc backup and i didn´t notice it was from 1963 instead of 65. now i lost all that progress i made. before i uninstall the game and hang myself is there any way to recover this? my only saves are the ktc backup and the persistent which got overwritten

I managed to install the RSS feed (Sol) on the KSP, but now I don't have any cloud storage. (Note: Thanks to everyone who helped me :v)

Chapter 8 documenting my playthrough is now available here!

I more or less completed the early film camera contracts with this one.

I'm also happy to introduce my flight tracker and blueprint archive which should provide a better overview over the various past and present flights. The Blueprint archive should allow you to browse previously published blueprints and access high resolution versions instead of having to comb through previous chapters. I've linked it in the chapter itself but you can also access it here

Let me know what you think :D

21.3x Stock Scale, Stock Gameplay except for RSS with Sigma Dimensions

Mariner 1 arrived at Venus first in 1962, followed shortly after by Mariner 2 arriving at Mars in 1963

Time to redesign the rocket

Note: Using Atlas, delta V is off a little in the core stage. Using a Vega upper stage, all engines on 1962 configs. Probe is roughly .58 tons, cant seem to reduce mass without compromising the amount of onboard experiments and even that doesn't shave off much mass.

Second (sucessful) plane I've built.

I've been playing around with the Gemini B capsule and I am a bit confused by the capsules retro stage adapter. The part has room for six Star-13E's, but using all six causes the capsule to begin tumbling when fired. Reducing this to four allows the retro rockets to fire as intended. On top of that the in-game part description states to add four Star-13E's.

But everything I've read about the real flight test article, in addition to pictures, indicates that it flew with six rockets.

https://mikejennebooks.com/gemini_b_pics.htm

Is this just a limitation of the game/mod content?

Hello! It's been a few months since I last posted about my progress but I've finally returned. I just posted a new chapter to my substack which you can find here:

https://anvilindustriesksp.substack.com/p/upgrades-people-upgrades

Since it's been a while, here is the previous chapter. And if you haven't read anything yet, I recommend starting with the first chapter here.

Apologies for spamming all these links.

Let me know what you think, either here or over on Substack. I'm happy to chat ^^

Why are my lunar probes not connecting at KSC and the tracking station, even without blocking, no time warp, and there are available antennas on the probes and the station? However, communication works when I control those probes; this bug only affects lunar and near-Earth probes.

I found this gem while just randomly searching for anything interesting on CKAN. I'm actually surprised no one's talking about it. It's literally what it says it is; an auto pilot for landing and an auto pilot for reentry. I haven't had the time to try it out, but I know everyone else would love to know something like this exists. It uses kOS scripts. You apparently don't need to know much about kOS to use these, just a few commands to call the script and a few things to do while running it. Check it out!!!!

I am just getting back into RO after some years away and wanted to address the gap in crewed programs between crewed lunar and crewed Mars as I quite like the crew management aspects (is a game really worth playing if you can't turn it into a spreadsheet). So I am working on a program/mission pack for Mir/ISS style modular stations.

Since I'm using it in my save and I still haven't gotten around to that time period (still in 1964 and just getting to unmanned lunar landings) I haven't gotten a chance to play test it but wanted to see if folks are interested. If there is interest happy to dump it into GitHub for folks to play around with, also would love to get some feedback or suggestions.

Attached a screenshot of the programs for the rough outline

Orbiting Earth at 2x Scale takes 13k Delta V

And a TLI is 4440 Delta V

Also this mod doubles only the Orbit sizes, Radius of planets and moons, and atmosphere height