#i wanna make it to orbit
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did you follow the tutorial?
or follow the video given to you?
yes
the training center
you watched tutorial online?
send a pic of your rocket
how are we supposed to help you if you don't even have a rocket lol
what was wrong with the one from the tutorial?
do you start turning during the ascent?
try another tutorial
how else are you going to learn?
start by making a rocket
make the rocket from the tutorial
send a pic
bruh I'm working lol
ok
remove the useless crap from the rocket
like battery and stuff
add two boosters on decoupler and you should have more than enough to spare fuel to get an orbit
on the side
radial decoupler
exactly
and you can put a cone on them
one that has the right size for your rocket
no
the solid rocket booster
no
a solid rocket booster
yeah that
yeah
maybe put them lower
you probably want to run them at the beginning anyways
as low as they'll go
you can start turning at something like 2km
then you gradually continue turning
north?
you keep your engines on until your apoapsisis over 70/80 km
east
then you timewarp to just before the AP and
and you fire prograde
you click on the path right before AP
and select "time warp to position" or wahtever it's called
then you point the rocket in the direction it's already going
it's called prograde
it's one of the two green circles on the navball
then you fire your engine until your periapsis is above 70/80km
exactly
do the tutorial again

the periapsis is the lowest point of your orbit
the point on your orbit which is the closest to the body
experiment
have fun
try things
I meant the in-game tutorial
I think they cover those terms and the general steps of getting to orbit
almost
but as you can see your periapsis is too low
yeah but you PE is below the surface
it will crash
wrap to AP and fire prograde again
also why did you go north lol
that's not east
I think you went north
what does your orbit look like?
still too low
continue prograde
you see that big crash warning right?
how high is PE?
crongrats!
you made it to orbit!
now practice
improve
try things
discover
build
and CRASH
now you have to land back
yeah
if you click on the kerbal in top right you can go EVA
lol did you go away from the rocket
you can press R to enable the jetpack and try to reach it back
oh ok
I think it's space to jump?
no
you can press F5 to quicksave and F9 to load the last save
probably a bug
what do you mean pot?
you can press R to enable jetpack
oh
you dropped all your stages lol
it's a pod
not a pot lol
now you have to do a rescue mission!!
anyways I have to go, have fun!
yeah
that's what a rescue mission is
it's another rocket to go save the kerbal that's stranded
you'll need a rocket with more seats tho
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