Kerbal Space Program.

I have a science satellite orbiting Kerbin and one orbiting the mun, I also managed to land a plane on the north polar ice sheet. Many kerbins have made the ultimate sacrifice in the name of progress. My next goal is a manned mun mission or a geostatic satellite for Kerbin. I have no idea how to get to minmus

Yeah I played the demo for about a month before actually buying the full game. It's not a bad way to get to grips with the game as it's not as complex. It's only €18 though so it's well worth it. No DRM either.

Yeah but the project is still in development, If you get a lot of use out of it you should support it.

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Still working on this, my current project is to get to the moon and back, Apollo style (CM/SM & LM ascent/descent stages). There are plenty of rockets on KSP that do this, but it's more fun to build it myself. So far I've got it built, but it's way too bendy and becomes uncontrollable after about a minute of flight as the rocket turns into a fiery banana. It's a single stack rocket with 4 SRBs for liftoff, including ASAS etc.

Any ideas on how to sort the bending?

I'd suggest putting a very small/light object into a Lunar orbit to start with. One of the probe chassis with a solar panel and the tiny fuel-tank/engine will give you valuable yardstick to aid future missions. A smaller payload will greatly reduce the size and complexity of your lifter stages.
Once you've achieved that you can begin to balance greater payload mass against required thrust/fuel.
If you don't know what a Gravity Turn or an Asparagus Stalk System is I'd suggest you google them.
ASAS may be causing your vessel to convulse, manual flight is trickier but it eliminates the wobbles in some situations. Oh and there's always the strut thingies in the structural tab, they provide good rigidity at a low mass cost but they do create significant air resistance.

ps. Time acceleration will cause problems with physics calculations when flying within the atmosphere and should only be used outside the atmosphere.

Yeah the full version got a token update to coincide with the updated demo release.
Thankfully they fixed some very annoying bugs.

Cool video here.

If you copy over the saves folder from the earlier install you seem to get the kerbal universe in it's current state.
Your orbiting ships and ongoing flights will be selectable/flyable from the tracking center.

This does not copy your previously saved designs though.

I'm sure they're there somewhere but I didn't need them so I didn't bother looking