Funny ooops moments

[Kyle]

Today I was about to launch the Space Shuttle Ultra, For some reason, I managed to forget that the warp was x10000, So As soon as I ignited the engines, I was out of fuel, with Atlantis spinning at rates that might defy the laws of Physics, and moving about 950AU Per Second. Oops.

 

[silent_protagonist]

Today I was about to launch the Space Shuttle Ultra, For some reason, I managed to forget that the warp was x10000, So As soon as I ignited the engines, I was out of fuel, with Atlantis spinning at rates that might defy the laws of Physics, and moving about 950AU Per Second. Oops.

Wow, that's about 474,000 c! I think that's the highest speed I've ever heard about in orbiter. It would only take about three weeks to reach the center of the galaxy. :blink:

 

[willy88]

Here's the 95 kilometer ACME tether-sling test entering into atmosphere. The lesson here is don't have typos in your RVEL fields.
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It might make a good light-bulb advertisement!

Ener-G-Max lightbulbs: bright enough to kill 78,000,000 people!

 

[doggie015]

Today I was about to launch the Space Shuttle Ultra, For some reason, I managed to forget that the warp was x10000, Oops.

How could you forget with several Orbiter days going in a second?

Ener-G-Max lightbulbs: bright enough to kill 78,000,000 people!

Was that the SWAT team? No, it was my new Ener-G-Max lightbulb failing :rofl:

 

[Adam]

My bigest ooops moment was aerobrakeing over moon


this is my first post on that forum btw.
Hi everyone

 

[Woo482]

Ha HA

 

[Woo482]

Wtf I have only posted 2 times

 

[apollo13]

Dude, us here, can only post once, not twice...either way, welcome!

Some pretty laugh out loud pictures there!

 

[SilvaHeed]

Once, while I was on a trip to Saturn in Vespucci, before I even had a chance to set myself up for orbital insertion, I actually hit Rhea!!! :lol:

I was only interested in Saturn at the time and was keeping an eye on the orbital path past Saturn. I thought I had plenty of time before I needed to manouvre for orbit-insertion, but suddenly found myself spinning out of control after slamming at interplanetary speed into a dirty great moon!!

The chances of that happening after planning a TransX route from Earth must be absolutely tiny! It's never happened before or since, and although I found it funny later, I was a little miffed at the time because my last save was prior to the TransX burn in LEO

 

[reverend]

After a picture perfect launch of the DeltaGliderIV, I'm waiting in LEO to make my Trans Lunar Injection burn... I brought up IMFD, clicked TGT, and started to type "moon". Apparently I didn't actually have the textbox open because pressing the N key opened the canopy which of course depressurized the cabin and killed us all pretty quickly.

 

[tomek]

Should have used seat belts (IIRC, in Dan's glider you are considered to be wearing spacesuit if you activate seat belts). And isn't there a safeguard you have to override to open the canopy?

 

[Kyle]

I accidently put Intrepid to Launch at x100000 a bit ago..
Found it out of fuel, at spinning at godlike rates, and going 3x as fast as the speed of light.

 

[Pilot7893]

After ejecting from Martian orbit to phobos, I forgot to do a retrograde burn, and hit at about 17,000 MPH

 

[eveningsky339]

Forgot to go out of prograde when re-entering. >.<

 

[SethEden]

Shuttle Re-entry

For me it was demonstrating a shuttle re-entry with the cargo bay doors open for a former NASA fellow.

Or the time I launched the shuttle with the MPLM attached to the RMS and hanging over the side. I think I got screenshots some place but can't take the time to go find em.

Seth

 

[Dark_Fox]

I accidentally entered the wrong heading into the DGIV's PRO903SPEC, tried to stop it by tapping the escape key a couple of times.....needless to say i had plenty of time to rethink that folly, as i gently came to earth.....

 

[Dr Pepper]

It's been a while since I posted here, might as well make this the first of the year!

My last "oops moment" happened quite recently. I was doing the DGIV 'Venus Weather' Mission. I had taken off, set up a beautiful trajectory with IMFD (perapsis before the orbit insert burn maneuver was about 300m above the center of Venus). Entered the orbit smoothly, skimming the very top of Venus' atmoshpere. I deployed the satallite and had a good look at Venus from 4M up through the eyes of the MMU dudes. I got everyone back on board and off we went, headed for home. After the ~180 day journey home, I was about 800M from earth, ready to do the last correction for the orbit insert. I was moving along at 100x time compression, but due to the lack of sleep (I had been up for nearly 20 hours), I hit the "T" key instead of the "R" key. By the time I noticed what had happened and reverted back to normal time, I was already about 80M on the other side of Earth.

Oh well, I'll just wait until I intercept Earth again, right? That's what I thought until I took a look at the Oxygen guage, which was something like this:

O2 Tank 1: 0%
O2 Tank 2: 17%

How it turned out: I was floating in space with all crewmembers asphyxiated.

The worst part: My last quicksave was right before the Ejection Burn from Earth.

My reaction:

 

[Woo482]

why did you not take a cargo pod for the dgiv?

 

[Bullethead]

The worst part: My last quicksave was right before the Ejection Burn from Earth.

There's the WONDERFUL AutosaveMFD available at OrbitHangar.......

 

[Bullethead]

My 1st shuttle launch, I didn't know the motors went full on and stayed there. So I hit and held down KP+. Slightly above the pad, my finger slipped to KP-. The SRBs kept going but the mains stopped. As a result, I did about 6 tight loops just above the top of the pad's tower while drifting off to one side .