The biggest disaster you have caused in Orbiter

The most embarrassing moment was actually only a few months ago. I had my cockpit open in a DGIV getting ready to takeoff (to save O2 in the tanks). I programmed my trip with IMFD, waited until my launch window, and hit 'e' to start the ascent autopilot... and forgot to close the cockpit.

At least you did`t try to do EVA when in orbit by opening cockpit;)

When I was new to DGIV:
*wonders how to do EVA*
*switches to lower panel, oh here it is button labeled Canopy*
*let`s open it, crap it`s locked*
*curses that stupid flight computer*
*o here is Unlock button, beep beep beep*
*now let`s open that damned canopy and do some EVA*
*hgrwhooosh, beep beep warning beep beep warning beep beep...*
:rofl::rofl::rofl:
 
An XR5 payload bay filled to the brim with armed Minuteman II warheads. Many mishaps I had.
 
Think the biggest disaster I do in Orbiter is everytime I start Orbiter :P
but its usually the dum thing like burned to dead in reentry or open the hatch will in space. "All that dum stuff there will not accure if your IQ was normal" type thiny

Anariaq
 
My biggest disaster was undocking an XR5 from my space station with the doors still open.
"Why the hell is my joystick not working again! Oh... Damn!"
 
My biggest disaster was undocking an XR5 from my space station with the doors still open.
"Why the hell is my joystick not working again! Oh... Damn!"
:lol: i am also guilty of that in the DGIV!
 
Wait, with the Orion still on board?

You do know that the 20m Orion is capable of reaching orbit on it's own, right? The only reason to launch it on a Nova is to avoid (more) trouble with Greenpeace. Once the Nova burns out you can light up the Orion and obliterate the Nova with your first nuke... The Nova is just a lower stage...

yes but i failed in the launch, the inclination was not correct and i was unable to reach the needed altitude and speed.

Next time i will launch the nova from the surface with his own power despite the troubles with ecologists.
 
My daughter hit "k" on the keyboard......during reentry....BOOM!
 
Well mines not quite so spactacular as the Gravity assisted Saturn via Moon visit! However i was really excited because i had finally got Meshland 2 and Orelux working with my 80MB moon textures package, i was flying over the Moon admiring all the craters in Eagle from AMSO, about 2km from Tranquility base when i managed to crash into some insane 'base crater' that had been put there! Needless to say i got sent into some insane Orbit around the Sun!
 
So, a new "best" disaster for y'all.
http://www.etmoonshade.net/warpspeed.jpg

The speed at EI to Jupiter was roughly 6Gm/s (.04AU/s by the speedometer.). Take note of the dynamic pressure (per the surface MFD - looks like the built-in gauge melted...) and the temperatures. Obviously, I had it set to invincible options and infinite fuel for the purposes of trying this. >_>

http://www.etmoonshade.net/chunkysalsa.jpg

Question for Doug: If I apply forces like this to the XR2 airframe, does this void the warranty?

;)
 
So, a new "best" disaster for y'all.
http://www.etmoonshade.net/warpspeed.jpg

The speed at EI to Jupiter was roughly 6Gm/s (.04AU/s by the speedometer.). Take note of the dynamic pressure (per the surface MFD - looks like the built-in gauge melted...) and the temperatures. Obviously, I had it set to invincible options and infinite fuel for the purposes of trying this. >_>

http://www.etmoonshade.net/chunkysalsa.jpg

Question for Doug: If I apply forces like this to the XR2 airframe, does this void the warranty?

;)
How the...?
 
The biggest disaster was when I Re-entered.
When I was docked to the ISS.
 
I had two major disasters when flying in Orbiter.
The first one was when after a quite successful reentry I wanted to slow down using retro thrusters, so I opened retro doors and... got instant hull breach at mach 5.
The second one was today. I was gliding in Martian atmosphere in an XR-2 at 1.5 km/s, 400 km away from the Olympus base at 15 km altitude. It was night on Mars. I saw a growing shadow in front of me - a mountain! I started gaining altitude, slowly, because I had too little fuel to afford a boost, I had to glide. Everything seemed ok, I gained enough vertical velocity to fly over the mountain... or so I thought. 366 km from Olympus at an altitude of 20 km I hit something and my landing attempt was over. Looks like I hit Olympus Mons :p
 
Some failures from another realm of Orbiter-playing:

The Moon vanished:
bug.jpg


Crashed into the Earth:
mimp5.jpg


The Earth collapsed into a black hole:
c.jpg


And all hit the dirt:
cr.jpg
 
How the...?

Hee. So what I did was put on infinite fuel and invincibility for the XR2 - I've got an install I have that's specifically designed for that. Book it full speed out to probably 2500AU, then used the scenario editor to reverse my velocity vector - basically multiply my state vectors (dx/dt, dy/dt, dz/dt) by -1.

Once I did that, I went back into the XR2's config file and bumped up the power on the RCS jets just so I could use the translation thrusters effectively at that speed. It still took me 5 or 6 passes on Jupiter to actually hit the atmosphere.

I found something out at this point, since my speed was measured in parsecs/second: If you hit too quickly, even at .1x time accelleration, you'll fly right through the atmosphere and/or planet without even being affected by it. I used the scenario editor once again to reduce my speed until I was going at something like .04AU/s, at which point I was able to "catch" the atmosphere of Jupiter at .1x time accelleration.

As you can see from the second picture, I still had a damned decent amount of speed, even at 80km from Jupiter's surface. If I'd really wanted to, at that point I still had enough velocity going that I -probably- could have gotten away with flipping right-side up again and using the lift to get out of the atmosphere. Keep in mind that none of this works if you haven't disabled all the damage modelling. <_<

The fact that I pushed the dynamic pressure meter into reading AUPa was just a bonus. ^_^
 
planned trip to mars. moon got in my way and slingshotted me towards saturn wich slingshotted me towards the sun... failed the mission, got a wicked tan :P
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planned trip to saturn, mars jumped out and bit me
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strapped a JATO to a DGIV with 50m thrust... learned a valuable lesson in high-G landings
 
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