The Shuttle Challenge

[Sbowyer28]

As You May Or May Not Know I Am Sbowyer28 Owner Of The Diskovery Shuttle And I Have A Challenge For Anyone In the KSP Forums. You Must Land A Shuttle/ Space Plane After Accumulating Atleast One Hour Of Flying Time On Your Mission Timer Then Land Your Plane/ Shuttle At The KSC (It Doesnt Have To Be On The Runway To Make It Easier It Just Has To Be Within 100m Of The Runway And It Has To Be In Your Pic/ Vid). Here Is The Diskovery. Dont Copy Designs Too Please.

[Tim_Barrett]

Your Pinky Must Really Love Left Shift!

Shuttle on the top of a rocket? KERBAL! 8)

[Sbowyer28]

Actually Thats How NASA Was Going To Send Shuttles Up At First Thats Where I Got The Idea =P.

[Redneck]

[mod]The topic is "The Shuttle Challenge" Not grammar. Keep it on topic![/mod]

[MC3craze]

The topic is 'The Shuttle Challenge' Not grammar. Keep it on topic!

I could fly for an hour, easily.

Brb abusing glide bug.

[Sbowyer28]

I could fly for an hour, easily.

Brb abusing glide bug.

How bout fly for an hour on your clock and land at KSC runway.

[MC3craze]

How bout fly for an hour on your clock and land at KSC runway.

Easy, just hover over the runway for an hour and parachute down.

[Sbowyer28]

Get into orbit then land i have to see those pics in orbit.

[comradephil]

I have planes capable of orbiting, landing, orbiting and then landing again with fuel left over, that\'s not a huge challenge

[Herra Tohtori]

I think, technically, my space shuttle should be capable of this. As long as the ship doesn\'t need to be quite intact at the end.

Problem would be timing the re-entry so that gliding to KSC would be possible. There\'s not much margin of error, as my shuttle typically uses its remaining fuel for re-entry burn and does the descent with empty tanks.

Would just have to do it through repeatedly adjusting the orbit height over KSC and try to find a good glide slope that puts the shuttle in a feasible approach for landing... and maybe I\'ll put on some landing gear, too, so the landing isn\'t so embarrassingly amusingly explosive every time.

[Sbowyer28]

I had to use my engines to get back its impossible to get back without engines well I cant.

[MC3craze]

I had to use my engines to get back its impossible to get back without engines well I cant.

Not necessarily, you can aerobrake.

[Sbowyer28]

Well like I said its just me.

[Sbowyer28]

Anyone else have a shuttle 8)