The biggest disaster you have caused in Orbiter

[Hielor]

As it's much more powerful than the bottom of the level 10 power (10^5 MT) we can assume it's going to do a lot more than the text above. I think it's fair to say that the only things that would survive would be bacteria.

And cockroaches.

 

[ripley1]

My early shuttle days were pretty ugly.Number of explosions on the pads (before I discovered the "Ctrl" function for the throttle)
Reentering the shuttle manually somewhere into Mexico and few times into the Pacific. My first mission STS 114 left OBS drifted off on orbit and damaging the radiators.Transporting shuttle on top of the SCA and pressing "G" while still on the runway. (I can still heard the crash sound and 747 helplessly sinking into the pavement...)

 

[n122vu]

Wouldn't necessarily call it a disaster, although it would be in real life. I inavertently launched the first mission building my new station into the same inclination, and amazingly, without trying, the same altitude, as the ISS. By the time I launched a second XR5 loaded with parts and rendezvoused with the station, it was actually docked with the ISS...

 

[MeDiCS]

Wouldn't necessarily call it a disaster, although it would be in real life. I inavertently launched the first mission building my new station into the same inclination, and amazingly, without trying, the same altitude, as the ISS. By the time I launched a second XR5 loaded with parts and rendezvoused with the station, it was actually docked with the ISS...

LOLz

 

[garyw]

My early shuttle days were pretty ugly.Number of explosions on the pads (before I discovered the "Ctrl" function for the throttle)
Reentering the shuttle manually somewhere into Mexico and few times into the Pacific. My first mission STS 114 left OBS drifted off on orbit and damaging the radiators.Transporting shuttle on top of the SCA and pressing "G" while still on the runway. (I can still heard the crash sound and 747 helplessly sinking into the pavement...)

In real life raising the gear will not have any effect on the ground as modern aircraft have a function called "weight on wheels". that is, when weight is on the gears they cannot be retracted.

Of course, such systems also have problems -> http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0UBT/is_41_17/ai_109289820/

Thinking back. I do remember a recent shuttle mission where I didn't work out the arm clearences and ended up putting the arm through the port raditor, bay door and into the wing......

 

[Messierhunter]

I had a near disaster during station building when I inadvertently deployed a station truss segment at 1 m/sec instead of .1 m/sec. The DG-IV waiting over the XR5's cargo bay had to backtrack in a hurry to avoid a high speed collision, but as a result it came within about half a meter of colliding with the station's nuclear reactor before snatching the truss segment in the nick of time. I quickly realized only an idiot puts a nuclear reactor parallel to the cargo bay of any docked ship.

 

[eveningsky339]

My very first shuttle re-entry... When I was told to re-enter at 40 degree aoa, I thought I was supposed to point the nose 40 degrees down.

Re-entry was extremely fast and painless. >.<

 

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[Kyle]

I slammed a DG into Mars moving at litterly 3.13 AU a second.

 

[Woo482]

well my biggest disaster is having a hull breach in a XR2 (Killing all the crew) while I was re-entering and I actually hit Washington a few meters from the runway I was going to land on so I probably would of killed a few people then.

 

[Jarvitä]

well my biggest disaster is having a hull breach in a XR2 (Killing all the crew) while I was re-entering and I actually hit Washington a few meters from the runway I was going to land on so I probably would of killed a few people then.

I severely doubt there would be any personnel present that close with a spacecraft coming in for landing.

 

[TMac3000]

Worst I ever do is miss-clicking the aux-pod throttles in the Shuttle-A and tumbling out of control. Once I actually recovered by swapping the throttle settings, but there usually isn't enough time to do so before you slam into somthing. Thank goodness I discoved the aux hot keys

 

[RangerPL]

I haven't done anything near what some of you guys have, but I wrecked some XR-series ships, crashed DGIVs into Florida suburbs.

 

[eveningsky339]

I remember when I was first learning to re-enter in the DGIV. I was about to stick my first real landing on a runway, but I was under the impression that deploying the speed brake would decrease my v/s. In reality, it did the opposite, and I slammed into the runway and killed my whole crew.

 

[Overmind5000]

I tried to dock with the ISS in a Delta Glider, I tried to fly towards the station, All of a sudden, I started to burn in reentry. I Forgot to think about the Retrograde effect. :lol:

 

[ghostrunner01]

There was this one time that I was building a station. I took off in the XR5 with a full load and constructed my space station. Then I took off with a XR2 Ravenstar and docked with the station. About 5hrs later I noticed excessive temperatures. Turned out that I was in a super low LEO. I practically re-entered docked to my space station!

 

[Epsilon]

Heh. I've caused more than a few disasters. A number of times hull-breaching at 71km over Earth going at Mach 47-52 (KSC-WIA, baby!). Oh, and the one time I was twiddling around with a speed record, actually managed to get up to 17km/s (still in the atmosphere, mind you!). I lost control, and ended up in a very hyperbolic orbit (not that I wasn't already >_>)

I think the -best- disaster though was when I managed to time-accellerate straight into Venus while I was learning IMFD. It's a lot more accurate than I thought it was - I was time accellerating at 10000x, and in an external view looking for where Venus was. Next thing I know, I see something in the corner, and turn the camera towards it - a fraction of a second before it got REALLY big. Next thing I know, I'm tumbling crazily in a hyperbolic orbit around the Sun. <_<

That was one of my finer moments. >_>

 

[Kaito]

My best disaster was when I was going in for a landing on Brighton beach on the moon. I was headed towards Pad 1, and thought to myself "Dang, thats coming up pretty fast...oh ****, Vertical speed." Hit pad 1 going -30m/s...woops

And yes, i actually did think those words.

 

[adamb193]

My first Lunar mission I managed to bring the delta glider in at -.5 meters a second made a very smooth landing at a few kilometers a second. I realized this when I went past my base in about a second. Made some pretty cool flips thought. Deorbited a space station crashed an Enterprise. Put a ship down in a rain forrest, dropped a ship into an european village, killed a few dozen people.

 

[Arrowstar]

Worst and most embarrassing moment in my Orbiter career:

Planning a high speed ejection burn towards Saturn, all going well. 15 hours later, I collided with a dark object called moon.

You can be sure, humanity laughed itself dead after such a navigation error.

I've certainly done something like this at least once, as well.