Historic Recreation Missions

[Gojira1000]

I think the name says it all.

Pick your favorite historic(al) mission and re-create it as closely as you can in as-stock-as-possible KSP (you can use mods, in other words, just no hyperedit or f12 cheatiness) - from any era (Wright Brothers, anyone?)

 

As an example, here's my X-15 re-creation, weight is spot on, which made me happy. It wanted to go higher than the "normal" historic 80km so I had to fight that a bit, but I was pleased with the results.
Oh, and Gen. White's record? That's almost twice the speed of an SR-71. In 1962. It's also not the fastest - my bad - that was William Knight in 1967 at 7,273 kph. Knight "holds the world's speed record for flight in a winged, powered aircraft."

Imgur albums or vids are very welcome.

This was in KSP 1.1 beta 64-bit. Your Mileage May Vary.

Edited April 5, 2016 by Gojira1000
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[Andiron]

I recreated the European space agency GOCE mission (Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer). This satellite, launched on a light Russian Рокот rocket, was in a very low sun synchronous orbit to study the earth gravitational field. It was designed like a plane and powered by two ionic engines to balance the atmospheric drag at the border of space. Thanks to the high ISP of the ionic propulsion, the craft stayed about 55 months, from march 2009 to november 2013, in earth high atmosphere (250km high)

My Rockot rocket is fully stock and use three Thud engines for the first stage, one Terrier for the second stage and one Spark for the third stage.

More info on the GOCE mission :

- Wikipedia article

- European Space Agency website

- Eurockot website (launch video)

[Gojira1000]

I love it - there's a certain satisfaction in managing to follow an actual mission's goals and limitations.

[Andiron]

10 minutes ago, Gojira1000 said:

I love it - there's a certain satisfaction in managing to follow an actual mission's goals and limitations.

Thanks ! I can say the same for your X-15. I forgot to add my craft on KerbalX, so here it is.

[max_creative]

I think I will try to send a probe to jool soon. And because I have nothing to do except launch stuff to get ready for Dres, I think I will make it like the Juno probe.

[Dfthu]

This is the NSS-6 satellite, launched on a  Araine 5 into Geostationary orbit.  Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSS-6 

Craft File 

craft file here

 

 

Edited April 6, 2016 by Dfthu

[max_creative]

I see from the clam shell fairing you have 1.1?

[Dfthu]

46 minutes ago, max_creative said:

I see from the clam shell fairing you have 1.1?

Yes, i'm loving it too! That also means the antennas are stock now. (white ones)

Edited April 6, 2016 by Dfthu

[max_creative]

2 minutes ago, Dfthu said:

Yes, i'm loving it too! That also means the antennas are stock now. (white ones)

Oh yeah! And the hecs II from asteroid day mean a more realistic Juno probe! (Along with the Giantor XL solar panels) actually, I'm going to wait for 1.1 official release for it!

[Gojira1000]

13 hours ago, Dfthu said:

Yes, i'm loving it too! That also means the antennas are stock now. (white ones)

It's making for very pretty recreations - I love that NSS-6

[The_Shortline_Gamer]

I have now found a new challenge favorite challenge. I am probably going to do Soyuz-4-5 Mission or Exploration-Flight-Test-One, So what do you guys think?

[tsgaerospace]

i know it´s old but anyways i´m going to make a recreation of the pioneer 5 mission

 

here it is:

http://imgur.com/Ggqatla

http://imgur.com/rw6BqTY

http://imgur.com/LYI6YtD

http://imgur.com/zggsv0t

http://imgur.com/X3LdGPP

check out the delta v

http://imgur.com/4emcdRA

all in one stage

http://imgur.com/0oRA5OX

that´s what i call overengineering

[sevenperforce]

I did everyone's favorite mission -- Apollo 11. Plot twist: it was my first-ever flight in full KSP.

And while this wasn't a historic launch, but rather a planned launch, here's X-37B on Falcon 9 FT, planned for August: