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@splitshockvirus This looks like an R7/Soyuz rocket.

@adiz That's what I always start out building it's my favorite rocket design.

It also has Asparagus staging.

@adiz Except back in ye old'n days we didn't have the fancy soyuz style engines.

Right picture is one I made when I was in high school.

@splitshockvirus How were you able to get rovers and stuff to work? Or multiple vehicles separate from your control vehicle? @kerosene

@adiz

This was before radio and signal was added so it "just werked™"

I think now you need to have line of sight to kerbal in order for probes to work.

If you don't have line of sight what you could do is make a few satellites that orbit the mun and they will relay the signal to the rover if you are on the other side of the mun for example.

@adiz

The rover flew the rocket from launch. And had a retrograde burner underneath it. When it landed it would just detach and hopefully not pop a tire.

The RCS is overkill, but I didn't know better at the time. There is a reaction wheel inside the rover that could have been used instead.

@splitshockvirus So, the rover itself was the control vehicle? It controlled the entire lot? Because, from what I understand, there's no a means within KSP whereupon you can have multiple vehicles attached together that can detach and be controlled independently.

@adiz

You can do exactly what you just described.

In order for something to be considered a vehicle, you need to have a control point (cockpit, command pod, probe). If you have two attached on one vehicle only one can be used at a time to control the entire craft. But if you detach them, then you have two separate vehicles. Think of the Apollo 11 lander and the command pod as an example.

@splitshockvirus How can you switch between them? Do you have to like save the game and exit to the control center and then select the new vehicle or whatever?

@adiz

The [ and ] keys will switch between vehicles that are in range for physics to be rendered (2.5km i think).

Otherwise just go to the tracking station and pick the vehicle.

@splitshockvirus I feel dumb for having never really known this.

@adiz it happens