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[nogoodnames]

Using only the RT autopilot you could pull off a distant landing on an airless world by exactly calculating when you'd need to burn, how long, how much to throttle up, etc. You'd need to know all the various variables for your rocket and the planet as well as the altitude of the landing site and your velocity at the surface. I don't know the calculations you'd need to do off hand. If you did the math right and the autopilot didn't screw up too badly, you could probably get successful landings fairly consistently.

Also, I may be wrong but I think there are mods which integrate with RT to provide more functionality for programming probes. I don't know what any of them are, but I think I saw it mentioned on either the RO or RT mod threads.

Edit: this mod is suggested by the RT thread, skimming through the description indicates that it adds SRBs which can be armed like parachute and automatically fire to land. http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/61294

Doubleedit: Reading through RT's wiki, I just found out you can enter in a delta-v value for burns. That should simplify things for programming suicide burns.

[Putnam]

kOS should work with remotetech I think.

[BFEL]

TAC Lifesupport really piles on the pressure if you do something stupidly wrong (like forgetting to add decent supplies to your initial munar lander, heh). 

My most common mistake with it is forgetting that you need electric charge, and then having to pull seat-of-my-pants burns at multiple points in my return without throwing my return course too far off or running out of fuel.

Granted you feel awesome when you pull it off, but you feel REEEEEALLY stupid when it first runs out.

[Akura]

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*sigh* Once again, we have been denied spaceflight by the rampage of Mecha-Snuffaluffagus.

[Ultimuh]

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*sigh* Once again, we have been denied spaceflight by the rampage of Mecha-Snuffaluffagus.

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That looks like a reaper from the Mass Effect Franchise.
However I don't think are supposed to act in such a silly fashion.

[BFEL]

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*sigh* Once again, we have been denied spaceflight by the rampage of Mecha-Snuffaluffagus.

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That looks like a reaper from the Mass Effect Franchise.
However I don't think are supposed to act in such a silly fashion.

It is indeed a Reaper, however I couldn't tell you whether or not its silliness is out of the ordinary, as my computer currently thinks gifs are just still images.

[MarcAFK]

What mod adds panels that big?

[Ultimuh]

I may have found the source of that gif:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrAsyvtctWQ

[MarcAFK]

I may have found the source of that gif:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrAsyvtctWQ

Oh the whole thing is rescaled..... It's 2 km long aparrently
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4YhpZoPIB8g

[WillowLuman]

I see someone went to the Prometheus school of running away from things.

[miauw62]

Ah, terrain.  You are burning retrograde, coming in for a nice, smooth landing... AND THEN SURPRISE MOUNTAIN.

This is why I love kerbal engineer and its "Altitude above terrain" feature.

[BigD145]

Unless you're using Interstellar you don't need much science. Mun/Minmus trips will max the stock tree. Dipping into the sun's soi is also a big boost.

[BigD145]

Unless you're using Interstellar you don't need much science. Mun/Minmus trips will max the stock tree. Dipping into the sun's soi is also a big boost.

I've grown tired of grinding Minmus.
Besides, this is more awesome, fun, hard, and rewarding.

Ike and Gilly missions help with the monotony. Just dive deep enough into Eve and Duna to grab upper atmosphere.

[Skyrunner]

Are there any mods that let you empty custom storage containers before birth? Science Station mod adds a very heavy storage container, that weighs 20.3 but the container itself is only 0.3. It would be convenient if I could empty out the heavy contents and launch only the container, then later dock and transfer stuff.

[miauw62]

Right-click on the fuel tank or w/e and use the sliders to adjust it. Completely vanilla.