Finally built a rocket that could take me higher and farther than ever before. On a previous flight I actually made it to over 200,000 meters. This was my second successful suborbital flight from start to finish. First time I had a landing in a valley. This one landed me in the ocean.

I also did a quick eva, left the capsule and evaed back in.




















I even got out on the crew ladder on parachute decent. But now my Kerbal has to swim back to land because unfortunately, the Kerbal race has yet to invent the air craft carrier and helicopter to recover their astronauts.

Awesome! Next goal will be getting into orbit. One of the things I like about KSP is that there is a learning curve. You have to take one step at a time (much like NASA had to do in the 60's).

I hope to figure it out someday Paul. Right now getting into orbit seems undoable and the Mun a pipe dream. Especially since I rely on just bushwacking in the approximate vacinity of where I want to go with the aide of the SAS to keep me from painting the sky with myself.

But I hope to make it there. Does that mechjeb mod have and orbit autopilot?

I do like the progression aspect of it. You're almost forced to start with a simple rocket and capsule until you start figuring the parts out. Then you get to experiment with adding more to help make that next push. Love it. I hope the modding community will get big enough to start creating more in-depth historical mods and instead of little kerbals, little 1960s test pilots and astronauts in orange pressure suits and ejection seats and such.

If you can make it to 200k, you can make it to orbit. Good luck!

I hope so. I'm kind of a stick and rudder guy.

I'm really having a difficult time figuring something out. My dream config is to have a self-powered aircraft taken aloft by a staged rocket to drop me off in the upper atmosphere. Everytime I try it its always off balance and I can't launch right. Not only that, I haven't found a good config for a gliding type aircraft that is controllable even with a joystick.

Why not do one thing at a time? Work on rockets. Orbit can be achieved at 36K and ~2300m/s

Ah Jeeze. The little Kerbals are the main reason I am thinking about getting KSP!

Nice photos.

Mechjeb can establish a realistic orbit for you.

Depending on my rocket design, I climb vertically to about 10-15 klms then start tilting towards direction of orbit.