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Subject: Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN SEPTEMBER 2024?
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On Tue, 01 Oct 2024 11:27:18 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

> What Have You Been Playing... IN SEPTEMBER 2024?

EDO (of course), but also went back and had another look
at KSP 2.

I have thousands of hours in KSP, with plenty of QoL mods, so
was disappointed when KSP 2 came out.  Put a few hours into it,
hadn't played it since.

At the end of September, I went back into the game, and saw that
I was in the middle of a mission to Minmus (the smaller moon of
Kerbin) at a point of interest site.  Walked my kerbal back to
the spacecraft, which is set up with unlimited fuel and indestructability.
To make a long story short:  I put about 2 hours into getting the
spacecraft of 3 kerbals back to Kerbin, the details I won't
bore you with.

Will mention this:  If you have a high apoapsis on your orbit, that's a 
good place to make orbital maneuvers if all you have is RCS at that point.
A little change at apoapsis makes a big difference at periapsis in that
case.  Remembering this saved me some time, because I set my periapsis at
50Km for Kerbin, which wasn't deep enough into the atmosphere to slow down
for a landing...I went around and around, until finally I woke up and 
lowered my periapsis to 30Km with RCS at apoapsis.

For those who don't know the terms:
In an elliptical orbit:
apoapsis: furthest point
periapsis: closest point

And:
https://xkcd.com/1356/

I will be playing it more now, this time with realistic fuel and damage.

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