Couple of stories unfortunately lacking screenshots.
First story starts with another story from history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornfield_Bomber
...a routine training flight, conducting aerial combat maneuvers, on February 2, 1970 ended when the aircraft entered a flat spin. The pilot, Gary Foust, attempted to recover, including the desperation move of deploying the aircraft's drag chute; however recovery proved to be impossible, and Foust fired his ejection seat and escaped the stricken aircraft at an altitude of 15,000 feet (4,600 m).
The reduction in weight and change in center of gravity caused by the removal of Foust and the ejection seat, however, caused the aircraft, trimmed for takeoff and with the throttle at idle, to successfully recover itself from the spin. One of the other pilots on the mission is reported to have radioed Foust during his descent under his parachute that "you'd better get back in it!". Foust watched incredulously as the now-pilotless aircraft descended and skidded to a halt in a farmer's field near Big Sandy, Montana...
...The damage to the aircraft was minimal; indeed, one officer on the recovery crew is reported to have stated that were there any less damage he would have simply flown the aircraft out of the field.
I had attempted a turbojet assisted rocket plane and had successfully flown beyond 25km before the engines cut out, putting me into a spin. With the help of the rocket motor, I recovered from the spin, ejected the jet engines and made my way to the secondary airstrip on the island. This plane's design was influenced by recent designs on here and thus was a vertical landing plane on 4 legs. For safety the cockpit could eject. I'd made it all the way to the strip and had about 30 seconds of fuel to land, but at low speeds the plane just didn't want to work with me and at about 500m I ejected the cockpit and the kerbal safely. Even after the kerbal had landed though the remains of the plane continued to float around in the air, making dives at the ground but taking forever to reach it. Finally one low, slow swoop took it into a shallow hill side, nose into the air where the struts contacted the ground and it rested on two legs for several seconds before finally tipping over and resting on two legs and a wing. No damage sustained other than from the ejection.
Second less comical, but I simply sent a single orange tank fuel depot into space. Scratch design, second try(after the first blew up shortly after launch and extra duct tape was added) the tank got up there, final stage shut down with a periapsis at about 10km. Stage ejected to burn up on its own, a final nudge using very little fuel put the depot into orbit. It's just so satisfying when things work out so well without dozens of tries.
As for the "more to it" thing. There's a career mode planned eventually. Evidence is already sneaking in here and there, most obviously with the grayed out option when you start a new game.
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