[What did you do in KSP1 today?]

It was time for another trip to the Mun.

Val plants her flag

And she EVA's for the science

Time for a sun tan after we land

 

[What did you do in KSP1 today?]

I sent a probe to Eve

Arrival at Eve

[What did you do in KSP1 today?]

Time to go to Duna

On station gathering science

 

[What did you do in KSP1 today?]

Time for a Minmus mission

Jeb at one of his 2 landing sites

Of course we went RCSing about

And we return in a ball of fire

[What did you do in KSP1 today?]

A mission to orbit Minmus was dispatched 

Bill chills between observations

And a safe return is had

[What did you do in KSP1 today?]

New rocket engines means new rockets to test

Upgraded to a poodle for the SM

And returned home , which gave Bob his first star

[What did you do in KSP1 today?]

Jeb lands on the Mun

Jeb plants the flag

Take off

Jeb likes this stuff

On the way back

and a happy landing is had

 

[What did you do in KSP1 today?]

Time for a Mun shot

The lander is sent off first.

Waiting for the crew.

Next the crew is sent off

And the crew meets up with the lander. After a rest period Jeb will conduct the landing.

 

[What did you do in KSP1 today?]

Time for a test flight of the new 2 Kerbal capsule

Spoiler

Jeb "Lets listen to some tunes"

Lener: Oh no, he's playing another Grateful Dead concert tape

 

 

Separation from the 2nd stage

And a successful test is concluded

 

[What did you do in KSP1 today?]

Spent the day training kerbals

And went on a trip to the Mun

Coming back we had to use a lot of the RCS propellent after using up all the fuel. 

 

 

[What did you do in KSP1 today?]

After discovering that my campaign did not have the correct DNS setting (it was too low). I restarted

So lots of satellites to launch for maps and communications

 

 

[What did you do in KSP1 today?]

Sent Val off to land on Minmus

Trans- Minmus burn

And Val at Minmus

She flies off to get more science.

And she brings it all back home

[What did you do in KSP1 today?]

The Minmus lander was sent off.

The first landing was successful so plans were made for a short hop to a new biome.

Which did not go well due to losing comms 100-200 meters above the surface.

Mission accomplished, all objectives were achieved.

 

[Should I get KSP 1 or KSP 2?]

I say go for KSP 1 . KSP 2 is an early access game and is not feature complete. I do not think they developed  the interstellar part yet.

[What did you do in KSP1 today?]

Minmus Orbiter 1, carrying Jeb, conducts the injection burn

Jeb hangs out

And then has a fiery return home

[What did you do in KSP1 today?]

Mun lander launch

8 meters from touch down

View of Kerbin from landing zone

 

[What did you do in KSP1 today?]

The Munner orbiter 1 Mission is launched

And Val takes pictures 

[What did you do in KSP1 today?]

The Minmus orbiter on station

The test flight of the Munner orbiter

During which Val performs the first EVA by a kerbal in this campaign 

[What did you do in KSP1 today?]

I started up a new JNSQ install. 

First satellite

Jeb does Jeb things

And mapping the Mun

[What did you do in KSP1 today?]

We sent a probe to Nero

And 23 years later!

We are there

[What did you do in KSP1 today?]

It was time for a Kerbaled Gartian Mission

Spoiler

Booster separation and LED jettison.

 

Second stage start.

Fairing separation

Trans-Gartian burn

The Kerbals  arrive and Bob gets the high orbit science

A fly by of Geminus is conducted and Bob gets more science.

Spoiler

On the return home it was noted that this is the fastest re-entry speed ever attempted with Kerbals

And 2 out of 3 kerbals are squished at this speed (almost 3 of them. Peak G force was 15+) and Poody is not smiling for the first time in the mission. 

 

But they make it back alive and have a happy landing.

[What did you do in KSP1 today?]

 Morning time for the Augustus rover

 

First stop is the sky crane.

 

Then we go on a road trip. The rover is very far away from the sun. 

Spoiler

Driving involves

1 . Once it is day light , Discharge a capacitor to fill the dead batteries

2.  Drive for 30-40 minutes doing stuff

3. Stop and charge batteries for the rest of the day with each solar panel in sunlight getting .03 EC per second at full exposure.

4. Charge capacitor for the night. 

rinse and repeat.

Some sights 

A transit

A night time transit of Augustus across Otho

 

 

[What did you do in KSP1 today?]

I tested a rover

Then set it off to Augustus

Arrival at Otho 

I get an encounter with Augustus about 10 days later with almost dry tanks

Entry

Parachute separation did not work but landing was made. (attached the chute to the fuel tank instead of the decoupler)

And waiting for daylight

 

 

[What did you do in KSP1 today?]

Off to the last unharvested biome on Ceti

Spoiler

After starting the trans Ceti burn on the second stage. We take a break to detach the lander and dock to it.

We then finish the burn up.

It looked a lot flatter on the map.

After some adjustments, we find a flat spot.

Landed at the Pole.

Bob gets science done.

Spoiler

Time to go

Docking in the dark

Bob grabs the science.

 

 The crew de-orbited the lander to get impact science before leaving for Gael

We have explosions on reentry. Always a good omen.

And nothing like good chutes all around.

 

[Predicting What Δv is Enough]

The D/V calculator in the VAB can be set to different altitudes.

Click on the button that says Altitude and below that there will be a slider. You can move it to adjust the altitude.

So if you always stage at certain altitude you can set the slider to that height (say 15 KM) to see the effects on DV at that moment on the current stage.