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You'd definately want somewhere to house your emergency vechicles for crash-response. Both survivors and leaking oxidizer prefer being approached by ground vehicles rather than hoverjet, so some kind of fire house style garage. A machine shop is also close to essential but nondescript. Just an...

Challenge: What's the most mass you can fly from Cape Canaveral to Brighton Beach in an XR2 with MainFuelISP=1 without pinging a fuel warning light? Bonus adulation if you can get back to the cape with or without an alarm! Story: I was hoping to use the low-ISP settings to allow me to bring...

Shallow banks work without the rudder*, just remember to pitch up enough to keep the nose level. Try something like 30 degrees bank 10 degrees pitch while climbing after takeoff. You should turn slowly to a new heading. Larger amounts of bank generate tighter turns, but require more back...

Based only on techincal merit Lua would be the clear winner, primarily because it's designed to embedded into things like Orbiter. However, there are a couple Orbiter-specific gotchas. First, Lua support is apparantly new and there are problems with scripted mfds in P1 which are reportedly...

My secret moon lair is CATOBAR equipped. Runways make sense for spaceplanes, since they eliminate the need for hover jets at the cost of more complicated control software. I'm guessing it'd be brakes+RCS to stop though. With hover jets arriving over a long paved strip is has an edge in debris...

It's a timely question. STEREO just arrived at opposite sides of the Sun but did L5 flybys on the way. Also both satellites were launched on a single Delta II, I assume one rocket to both points is a cool enough trick? Basically the two craft are launched on lunar swingbys. The first escapes...