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[Skyrunner]

Proble shut down without electricity!
And control pods have a small amount of SAS iirc.

[sneakey pete]

So, 0.19 is going to have better drag all round, including reentry heat, supposedly

[Dutchling]

Proble shut down without electricity!

But solar panels create a huge amount of energy... Even if I only use one (I have five, as one crashed during docking) I can recharge my energy in a matter of minutes, and that is with my (completely pointless) lights turned on!

[RulerOfNothing]

Well, probes can't do EVAs, if you care about that sort of thing.

[Skyrunner]

Proble shut down without electricity!

But solar panels create a huge amount of energy... Even if I only use one (I have five, as one crashed during docking) I can recharge my energy in a matter of minutes, and that is with my (completely pointless) lights turned on!

Also, a single thermoelectric generator will more than provide for your probe.

[Dutchling]

Is there a way to turn off stages?

edit: After almost two days of lonely orbit, I decided <whateverhisnameis> should probably get back in the spacecraft again.
Daamn, has anyone so far managed to get a Kerbal back in a spaceship? I could get quite close to him...

Spoiler: quite close (click to show/hide)

...but actually getting all of him inside, seems  lot harder. I give up for now, might try later. It's not like he has limited life support or anything.

[miauw62]

Reentry heat will probably greatly increase my lethality rate.

[Dutchling]

Reentry? Seems like a waste of fuel to me

[Graknorke]

Getting Kerbals back in ships is easier than docking.
They control incredibly easy.

[LordSlowpoke]

So, I'm currently sending a Kethane mining/processing facility and spacedock to the mun. In one go. I'm running on warp one and can't go above 30 m/s or the whole thing will collapse on itself.

i will rage immensely if i manage to mess this up

[Dutchling]

Getting Kerbals back in ships is easier than docking.
They control incredibly easy.

Really? I found docking to be fairly easy, as you can just bump into the the space station and then you'll have equal speed. If you even touch the Kerbal a little it flies into all sorts of directions. I also never managed to steer my Kerbal into anything o_O. He just flaps around a little but but that's all >.>

[Skyrunner]

So, I'm currently sending a Kethane mining/processing facility and spacedock to the mun. In one go. I'm running on warp one and can't go above 30 m/s or the whole thing will collapse on itself.

i will rage immensely if i manage to mess this up

As long as you finished accelerating, you could just warp x1000 until you get there... xD Torque and things are disabled in orbital warp.

Docking is very fun. Love it when you slide into place.
Kerbals are easy to maneuver. Just make sure your camera is set at a comfortable angle before pressing R, then use the translation controls to get where you want to go.

[Dutchling]

pressing R

That explains a lot.

[Graknorke]

pressing R

That explains a lot.

How do you miss the RCS packs?

[10ebbor10]

Spacesuits have RCS packs?