A gallery of screenshots from Kerbal Space Program.
My failed SSTO attempt coming in for a runway landing in KSP2. The vehicle can reach about 1500 meters per second (but ran out of oxidizer for the rocket engine), so I was able to make a “suborbital hop” using the Whiplash engines back to the KSC. (Nov 26 2025)
My first plane in a new career mode save. I made a post about it which can be found here: https://smitam.com/my-simple-starter-plane-in-kerbal-space-program/ (Nov 29 2025)
The Five-Seat Orbital TaxiKab (known within the space program as “Jumpin Flea V17 Orbital Tourism”) detaching from the orbital propulsion assembly (known within the space program as “fuel tanks with reliant engine”). A miracle of modern engineering, this relatively affordable (~35k funds, or about $350 million) single-use orbital spacecraft can carry you to the stars in style! Booster seat for young Kerbals not included. (Dec 15 2025)
A cutaway view of the TaxiKab. Jebediah Kerman here is our chauffeur and driver, and pinhole windows placed conveniently in the passenger cabins offer an unparalleled view of the interior of the protective fairing. (Dec 15 2025)
The TaxiKab with chutes partially deployed and fairing jettisoned, coming in for a water landing. (Dec 15 2025)
The TaxiKab with drogue chutes fully deployed. (Dec 15 2025)
The TaxiKab with main chutes fully deployed. (Dec 15 2025)
The only screenshot I have of the Mini Mun Scouter, or as it’s known in the space program, “Jumpin Flea V18 Mun Flyby”. (Btw, the first Jumpin Flea was just a command pod and 5 Flea boosters, and they couldn’t even get to orbit until V12, so you can see the rate of progress the space program is making.) The Mun actually threw me into a Minmus orbit intercept and I waited a few orbital cycles for a Minmus intercept before getting impatient and heading right into a Mun orbit, if you can believe that 🙂 (Dec 15 2025)
Science results from the Mun Scouter. (One of the science experiments didn’t make it to Kerbin’s surface 💀) (Dec 15 2025)
Early version of the Jumpin Flea V19 Mun Landing (it always tipped over upon landing even on the flats D:) You may be wondering why there is an SRB attached to my Mun lander. Well it is part of a system of 19 Thumpers capable of getting a reasonably sized payload from the KSC into a 100×200 orbit without needing to use the payload’s main engines. (Dec 18 2025)
Booster and lander coasting peacefully over Kerbin. Orbital info in bottom left. (Dec 18 2025)
Detaching the booster from the lander and preparing to burn for Mun. This picture was taken at a later date than the above two, in a misguided attempt to make a flawed design work. I later switched to a better design shown below. (If you’re wondering where the engine is, it’s inside of the shroud connecting the engine to the decoupler, which I put the wrong way around D:) (Dec 21 2025)
The improved Munar Lander. Note the main Reliant engine has been replaced with two sideways Thud engines (which are massively overpowered, I should have thrust limited them to 50%) and a sideways facing Onion reentry module for landing control. The Stayputnik on the front is in hibernation mode, and is there purely for the “Control From Here” functionality it provides for launch. (I haven’t unlocked docking ports yet) (Dec 21 2025)
A front view of the vehicle right after staging away the inner Thumper ring. The discarded boosters as well as pieces of fairing are visible behind the vehicle. Valentina has taken over the job of piloting the space program’s various spacecraft after Jebediah turned his sideways Mun lander into a peaceful cottage to spend the rest of his days, and he has unfortunately taken all his piloting experience with him. So now we are back to basics. (Dec 21 2025)
The lander by itself. Right now you can see the control orientation is not aligned with the thrust axis, it is 90 degrees away from where we want it to be. So I just right click the Onion module (the bulgy thing on the bottom) and click “control from here” and it will switch the orientation and controls to the Onion module, aligning it with the thrust axis. (Dec 21 2025)
Our final image of this gallery, and we are back to where we started — a failed attempt at an SSTO that missed orbit by less than 10 meters per second. Maybe one of them tiny fuel tanks will do the trick. (Dec 21 2025)