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[diogom]

I've gained a bigger fear of reentries. Once lost my Soyuz program to 20's% or so of reliabilty just because it blew up on the atmosphere.

 

[Eli13]

Well i should have said every mission because thats more along the lines of what i meant.

 

[diogom]

just because it blew up on the atmosphere.

He says like if it's a trivial and insignificant thing :lol:.

 

[iamwearingpants]

I'm goin' to Hershey tomorrow!
There are 2 coasters I didn't ride, I plan to identify them AND RIDE THE LIVING BLEEP OUT OF THEM :headbang:

I am going crazy! Stupid event boredom :jiggy:

 

[jedimaster1214]

i lol'd so hard at this:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HioPyCID6RI&feature=mh_lolz&list=FLzxZwg0NKnCs]John McCain gets rick rolled.[/ame]

 

[jedidia]

Orbiter forum just had a short downtime due to... ritualistic cleansing?? :rofl:

you admins just made my day!

 

[OrbiterSpore]

Note:
Never take snoozes while young children are at the computer; Something bad may happen. :uhh:

 

[Eli13]

back on the race to space stuff, i don't know how you got a failure for the mercury craft, in all the time i've played it, the worst thats ever happened to it is a complete and permanent comms blackout. so then they re-enter and yeah the astronaut is just fine.

 

[N_Molson]

I found pretty mean that Mercury exploded because of a "throttle problem", because IRL Mercury had nothing like throttleable engines. Just 3 solid retrorockets and 4 RCS jets. :shrug:

 

[diogom]

You must be really lucky, then. I almost always get a catastrophic failure after +/- 3 missions. And the worst is when the chute doesn't deploy.

 

[Eli13]

hmmmm i don't know. But every time i've ever tried to launch a gemini on a saturn platform, something bad happens. Now, i usually just skip up the gemini capsule altogether. The mercury is very reliable, and apollo is well, apollo. Now if only, i never had to recruit astronauts, they were just there. Oh that would be nice, wouldn't it?

 

[diogom]

If only the money didn't end... What's bad though is if you don't go to the Moon a while after the last astronaut group finishes training. They start to retire after some time, and you don't have enough spacemen to fly to the Moon. Quite frustrating.

 

[Eli13]

What annoys me is that docking never works for the lunar landings! I mean, I almost always win due to the prestige points, (one time it was 126 US to -1 for the USSR) but still. I hate docking. But i love the mercury it has never failed me. That and the explorer satellite. With the russians though, everything somehow blows up, decompresses or spontaneously spins out of control.

 

[diogom]

Yeah, I once killed a quarter of my cosmonaut reserves by being stubborn, and always loosing them in EVA suit decompression in Lunar orbit.

 

[Eli13]

I've never lost anyone during EVA ops however, the worst was overexertion, but he finished the EVA 'objectives' being what ever they were.

 

[diogom]

Wew, just back from one of my best Orbiter flights ever. First Apollo to the Skylab. Docking was only 6h after launch, with a 15k closest approach. Such a fast rendezvous is a first to me.

 

[Eli13]

Wow.
Mine usually take a couple of orbits, but mostly because i set rendezvous to be a few orbits later.

 

[iamwearingpants]

It's starting again, I'm madly in love. Next to come is a worsened lack of concentration, and a consciously lower voice.

 

[Eli13]

In love with... who/what?

 

[Izack]

It's starting again, I'm madly in love. Next to come is a worsened lack of concentration, and a consciously lower voice.

It's an incredible feeling, isn't it?