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[Greiger]

My adventures in failure continue.  I now have 2 spaceplanes horribly stranded in orbit with poor unfortunate kerbals wondering where their air is coming from.

My genius plan to solve this?  A rescue rocket. Three separate cockpits (because 3 seems lighter than the one that holds 3 by itself) one with a pilot and 2 empty for pickup. The plan is to launch the rocket, refuel at the orbital fuel depot, and then intercept the stranded spaceplanes and either give them enough fuel to deorbit themselves, or pick up the kerbal.

Rocket gets into orbit easily and I intercept the fuel depot.  But after a few failed attempts to dock I turn on mechjeb auto docking to try to see what I'm doing wrong.  When that also failed it struck me why it wasn't working.  The rescue rocket and the fuel depot have different size docking ports.

D'OH!

[miauw62]

Am I the only one that uses unmanned probes for prototype craft? ;_;

[Aseaheru]

It depends on my craft. And my problem is always the power. Gotta go crunch them numbers!

[Greiger]

I say unmanned probes are for satellites.  Everything else must have a poor innocent (preferably high stupidity) kerbal soul in the balance.

[My Name is Immaterial]

I like to send an unmanned probe ahead of my manned expedition so I can understand what flight path to take. That said, supply drops are going to be delivered by drones.

[Leonon]

My adventures in failure continue.  I now have 2 spaceplanes horribly stranded in orbit with poor unfortunate kerbals wondering where their air is coming from.

Kerbals can refill their EVA RCS packs for free an infinite number of times by just reentering a command pod.

If you're ever stuck in space you can always just get out and push.

[My Name is Immaterial]

My adventures in failure continue.  I now have 2 spaceplanes horribly stranded in orbit with poor unfortunate kerbals wondering where their air is coming from.

Kerbals can refill their EVA RCS packs for free an infinite number of times by just reentering a command pod.

If you're ever stuck in space you can always just get out and push.

This sounds like a fantastic idea. And one that could easily doom you.

[Descan]

You really shouldn't repeat yourself like that, Immaterial. It's unbecoming!

[Greiger]

More adventures in failure.

I figure I may get enough fuel to do things in orbit if I found ways to make my flight more efficent.  I see that I have to keep my plane's nose up a good 20 degrees over my actual direction of travel because my plane dosn't have enough lift.  Well that will probably help quite a bit!

So I modify my planes to have more wing surface and add control surfaces to match.  And now instead my planes can't continue to climb after 10000 meters, I just end up having very little control over my angle of attack, even with the joystick all the way back.  I can't pull up or down more than a few degrees, and at higher altitudes the plane eventually just starts nosing down and losing speed no matter what I'm doing

And the nose is still pointing a good 10 degrees above the direction it's actually going...

I ended up making a neat little water landing once though.  The plane disintegrated but the cockpit lived.  So I let bob out to swim around a little bit.  I like to think he was happy for the R&R.

[LoSboccacc]

trying to design an eve return lander.

getting 11k dv to land there is a real challenge 

[ank]

@Greiger
Sounds like you need more lift in the back(maybe a tail) and more control surfaces.

[Girlinhat]

trying to design an eve return lander.

getting 11k dv to land there is a real challenge 

Did you Asparagus?

[Aseaheru]

Two things:
One, SABERs are real. Or atleast close to real. Almost done.
Two, The kerbal AI thing.

[Girlinhat]

You're gonna have to explain both of those.

[Aseaheru]

Allright. In the UK some people are testing prototypes of SABERs.
Yes, I am most likely spelling that wrong.
Well, here is one page talking about it.
   http://www.space.com/22004-skylon-space-plane-rocket-engine.html

The other thing is in this weeks dev thingie.