Totally wrong things that Kerbal Space Program taught me*** about spaceflight:

• Landing legs? Just land on the engine bells, they're nearly indestructible!
• Reaction wheels are incredibly small and lightweight, are powerful enough to spin an entire rocket like a pinwheel, and never get saturated (can apply an infinite amount of torque in a single direction without needing to be reset).
• There's only one type of liquid fuel, only one oxidizer, and only one type of monopropellant/RCS fuel
• Rocket engines can be started up and shut down instantaneously, can be started an infinite number of times, and can be throttled down to a fraction of 1% of their maximum thrust smoothly, with perfect efficiency, and no combustion instability (or inadvertent self-destruct modes).
• Liquid fuel tanks can be drained to 0% at any time without issue or need for ullage motors.
• Fuel/Oxidizer never gets old or leaks
• In extreme reentry profiles, multiple stacked heat shields can be used, and will fail gracefully and consecutively, with no risk to the craft.
• Extremely small structural parts have no drag whatsoever
• A tiny high-temperature-resistant part (such as a radial RCS port) at the tip of the nose of a part with low temperature resistance (such as a mk1 aircraft canopy) will successfully shield that part from most heating effects.
• Docking rings/adapters have magic magnetism that works across impressive distances to draw craft together
• Fuel pumps have an infinite amount of power, and can pump fuel from the bottom of the craft to the top of the craft while undergoing 10G acceleration.
• Extremely tall crafts act like spaghetti, despite being made of fused metal parts, and require noodle-like metal strips called "struts" in order to remain structurally sound ;)
• Nearly any part being destroyed gives off a combustive explosion, whether or not it contains combustible matter.
• A gigantic space station only requires a single small solar cell of about 2 sqm to keep its batteries topped up

* not including things that are peculiar to Kerbal physiology, to Kerbin itself or the Kerbol system, such as the Kerbals lack of need for consumables, or Kerbin's size, or the Kerbol system's lack of n-body orbits

#KerbalSpaceProgram2 being (likely, but not officially) dead has allowed me to play the original #KerbalSpaceProgram again. I hadn't even realized that I've been delaying this for about a year until now.

I've only ever landed on Mün, Minmus, and Ike. I've never successfully landed on (and returned from) a planet with an atmosphere, so I can't wait to do it for the first time.

The fact that I'm playing with mods (Including MechJeb) will diminish the achievement, though.

#KerbalSpaceProgram logic:
"Hey Bob, we need to drive around the KSC and collect some science data. Can you stand on this ladder atop this capsule-on-wheels and take down EVA reports?"
"Well, sure, but wouldn't it just be better to put a chair on top of the capsule instead?"
"Unfortunately, our researchers haven't invented chairs yet. They're on the roadmap."
"Haven't invented CHAIRS?!?"

#KSP

cc:@amin

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