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Last night's recovery
Dec. 6th, 2013 11:46 pmI've been playing on the "career mode" where you start with a few simple parts and have to do experiments in space to get science points to research more. So, last night I tried to make a rocket out of very basic parts to get to Minmus.
I got there, and got into orbit, but when it was time to go home I didn't have enough delta-v. I was able to escape Minmus but my Kerbin perigee was still about 1200 km.
I know that stage separators push the stages apart with some force, so I aimed myself right and separated my last stage. That got me down to 900 km.
Then it hit me: I still had one source of propulsion left. I had Jeb go on EVA, wedged him up against the capsule and fired his jetpack. One full load of jetpack fuel.
That did it, the last 30 m/s or so of delta V I needed.
So, at one point in the history of my glorious space program, yes, I had an astronaut get out and push.
I got there, and got into orbit, but when it was time to go home I didn't have enough delta-v. I was able to escape Minmus but my Kerbin perigee was still about 1200 km.
I know that stage separators push the stages apart with some force, so I aimed myself right and separated my last stage. That got me down to 900 km.
Then it hit me: I still had one source of propulsion left. I had Jeb go on EVA, wedged him up against the capsule and fired his jetpack. One full load of jetpack fuel.
That did it, the last 30 m/s or so of delta V I needed.
So, at one point in the history of my glorious space program, yes, I had an astronaut get out and push.
