Recent content by chris

Take some time off, you deserve it! Just for sake of discussion, what would be involved in making an undamaged skylab? 1) On the model, you have to copy/paste the undamaged solar panel, mirror it, and place it on the other side. Right? 2) Then in the code, you comment out the section that...

Is there any way to launch an undamaged skylab with both solar panels working? thanks.

RokGeetar's second link has all of that. Mustard has done great work for the Orbiter community. You can very nearly build the ISS from scratch with his modules. Kudos to him.

Moonwalker, have you ever tried to get three monitors working simultaneously in any linux distro? I use Ubuntu and have two video cards in my primary machine. One is an ATI Radeon 2600 dual head (so, two monitors) and the other card is an ATI Rage XL PCI, for a total of three monitors. In...

Martin, I'd like to suggest a new feature. During docking, when the two craft are a certain minimum distance from each other, they "snap" together and are docked. I'd like to have a control on the Launch Pad dialog box that would let me set that distance, and reduce it to something much...

I like this idea! Switch back to the booster? Try this, let the Orion go (and it will crash or whatever) and just concentrate on the booster. Try to fly it back. I've never managed to make it back to Florida, let alone land on a runway. Also, I've never been able to bring Greg Burch's...

Thought I would pass this on. It's kind of neat. It's a free simulator by the guy who made x-plane http://www.x-plane.com/SpaceCombat.html

you know you're addicted to orbiter when you build a shuttle cockpit replica... and it looks like this: http://www.spacetoys.com/proddetail.php?prod=RFS13

If possible, make a recording of one of your landing attempts and post it here. As Enjo said, be sure to use the HSI. It allows you to line up the runway even when it's outside your field of view. The tendency in all flight simulators is to want to turn in from your baseline leg too soon...

I love all of your addons Mustard. I hope that one day you can create a Photoshop tutorial because your textures are great.

Brad, I noticed in your image directory that there's a pic of a multi-skylab station. http://simnasa.org/pao/images/aesc6/aesc6-9.jpg Is that an available addon? thanks.

When was the last time that there were *no* humans at all in space, outside Earth's atmosphere? It must be before the launch of Mir. It would be very sad if we return to that time.

http://orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=3172

Not just planned, it was built and several were launched. The Saturn Ib is a way of getting an Apollo CSM into LEO in those situations where you do not need to go all the way to the moon. It was used for testing Apollo hardware, for trips to Skylab, and for the Apollo/Soyuz launch. wiki...

That sounds great. If it's half as good as his titans collection it'll be epic. cvel? Everything he's done in the past has been cvel. Doesn't get much easier than that. I've wanted to do that too. I haven't looked into it much. I think it'd be nice to have a working SkyLab option in...