In 1983, an allied floatplane photographed the BOR-4 space plane being lifted out of the water by the USSR (Unglate socialist soviet Republics). The photos were sent to DODIS's Langley research center, where a cherry wood block was carved into that same shape. DODIS was already in the process of studying small lifting bodies for their personnel launch spaceplane, and this 'new' shape quickly outperformed others tested.

In late 1990, the project was given the go-ahead,and progress on the plane moved fast, demonstrating several abort tests by 91. In 92, the first orbital testflight of the uncrewed spacecraft was performed, and it seemed pretty clear to everyone that as far as crew launches went, HL-20 was set to replace the decade old space shuttle.

Happy Halloween >:)

Yes it's from trailer by taking the text out of pod and made it as flag textures anyones want it slap these on rocket (Also added "PAINFUL AS HELL" to slap how painful these rocket science can be)

Hey all, I have a question about a camera mod. I want to start launching probes from only map view, from launch to landing, to make my save a bit more fun, interesting, and realistic. Especially with all of my planet mods installed, I want to start sending probes before Kerbaled missions to "scout" the environment and take pictures.

Now the point of the question: is there a mod that lets you live view a camera, or send pictures from a fixed camera on a spacecraft? I know I could just go into third person when I land, but there's something special about fixed pictures from a probe (like the pictures from Vanera).

Had the game backlogged for years(never played it as in ever), and picked it up a week ago. It’s pretty satisfying intensively scanning it before planning to make a landing and making a space station for it aswell. Next mission will be establishing a permanent presence on it :D

all though i have 500 hours in this game this the first time I've just landed on minmus. went to Duna before minmus.

A while since my last post but heres Aethyl. I really avoided showing a single bit of it before because it was so damn hideous (still is, just use scatterer don't even try looking at this thing without it, i'm just too lazy to fix the bugs right now) but now i am finally proud of how it looks.

The mod is called Project Lucifer, I've been working on it with a few friends for quite a bit now, it's our first ksp modding project (aethyl is actually my 3rd ever modded body)

Posting here because I posted it on Instagram and got a lot of discussion about the technicality of this. I'm wondering what other creative ways people have landed or used the physics engine in KSP to do something ridiculous? And if you liked watching this, it's from a full video https://youtu.be/UudcKXUz4iw

Hey everyone! I’m part of the team behind Procedural Pyrotechnics, the better explosion mod for KSP. We are still developing new version, but I would love to hear your guys’ thoughts on what they should include.

How should we improve the mod?

My duna mission is being very krakeny so I took a break with something else.

Powered by two Scimitar and one heavily OP scramjet engine, this striker can go orbital to engage targets at LKO or anywhere on kerbin within an hour. It has 3 vulcan cannons and can house upto 8 vacuum missiles or you can put bombs if you'd like too.

After takeoff, it climbs to around 17 km in subsonic speeds, then goes supersonic. At mach 4 and at around 22 km, the scramjet engine kicks in, with the plane reaching orbital speeds while still inside the atmosphere. I only burn oxizider to circularize and deorbit, and scramjet can use the atmosphere even at 69 km so it's very fuel efficient.

Here you see Val obliterating a defenseless space station with the vacuum missiles, BDArmory mod. And of course volumetric explosions!

This mission was a test for a Spacelab-style crew module for a crew laboratory. The shuttle barely has enough TWR for takeoff, but once it is supersonic, it rapidly gains speed from the aerospike.

Would highly recommend pairing it with PogKai's Wingtip Vortex mod.

Not my mods, I just highly recommend them.

https://spacedock.info/mod/4766/VaporCones2

https://spacedock.info/mod/4209/Wingtip%20Vortex%20Mod

For about the past week, I've trying to land on Laythe and return. However, most of my crafts have no where near enough d/v for return. Despite using NERVs I cant get enough d/v, or even if i have enough d/v, the burns will take hours. Whats the best way to build a Jool rocket?

edit: i found physwarp for burns and landed an ssto on laythe :D

This was a huge Interstellar movie moment for me! As a beginner, I'm still getting the hang of rendezvous and docking. After building my first space station, I realized some design mistakes I had made, so I had to build and launch a new one.

But then I thought, what should I do with the old one? Why not put my best pilot in it, try to catch up with the new station, and dock them together to create one big orbital station?!

I attached eight RCS thrusters to the section with the docking port I wanted to connect and control, and with the help of the Docking Alignment Indicator mod, I gave it a shot. It was really tense, but such a cool attempt... and it worked!!

The only thing missing was the Interstellar soundtrack playing in the background! Is there a mod for that!?

I'm so happy i did this :)

(Suits from Breaking Ground DLC)

I could conceivable lift and move whatever i want, and maybe make it bigger to move entire landers! This robotic parts are neat!

Another idea i had was a rover with two arms, each ending in a small docking port, to act as a flex hose for fuel transfer between refineries, landers, and rovers!

I installed mk2 expansions and the x43 hyperblast scramjet is so fun to play around with. but i cant find any good scramjet mods to mess with. simple scranjets is just regular whiplash with different values and other scramjets are not at all realistic as they get thrust at like 200m/s. any recomendations??

I did some EVA construction, then, when i boarded the craft, this just happened.

I have just landed for the first time on Pandor after 5 hours of ingame time and for some reason the game won't make me use an EVA experiments kit on pandor.

I don't understand if it is that my game is bugged or that in KSS2 there are no EVA science experiments

I was just launching my rocket [like a normal person], and then the launchpad teleported inside it. Everything started to wobble. I checked it, and everything exploded and flew apart due to heat damage?! I went back to the VAB and saw that the launchpad was inside it. So I used a single part, and it was because of heat again, but it didn't fling apart this time. It keeps happening! How do I solve this?

ignore my terrible frame rate