When starting on new career mode, what's the best way to get science quickly?
I'd just like to get enough to be able to build a variety of things, like planes, rockets and maaaybe rovers.
Also, with the contracts, there are some you get where tourists ask you to take them somewhere.
But for the instructions it just says they want a sub-orbital flight.
Does this mean I have to go a set distance, or just remain sub-orbital, or go to a specific location on Kerbin? And what qualifies as a flight? If I launch them 6000 feet in the air, then land them 100 feet from the launchpad will that still count?