AmateurAstronaut1969

Yeah, I was gonna do Minotaur, but the parts don’t really exist. There was one guy who had a mod for it, but he hasn’t responded to my DM’s. Next up is Expedition 7, P2 Truss, Expedition 8 and then the Centrifuge Gravity Laboratory. I’m currently taking a short break to work on other things tho

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Expedition 3’s Return to Earth A few Days after the docking of Nova, the crew of Expedition 3 prepare to board their CSM, Pilgrim, and return to Earth. Undocking Confirmed The Crew of Pilgrim now coast In Orbit for a couple of days. To lower their orbit away from Freedom, they preform a few Phasing burns. After the coast, the crew prepare to ditch the mission module before they deorbit. Mission Module Separation Pilgrim Preforming it’s deorbit burn The Crew are strapped to their chairs and in their launch and entry suits, this one’s gonna be a wild ride! Plasma builds up on the blunt bottom of the CM, the crew begin to experience a communications blackout “Pilgrim, this is Houston, do you read me?” “Houston, Pilgrim, we copy you loud and clear!” Prepare for Drogue deployment Drogues Drawn Prepare for Main parachute deployment We have successful deployment of the mains Brace for Touchdown- We have Touchdown Welcome home Pilgrim!

Ah Very Good! I’m pleased to hear Also, since everyone seems to be posting their interesting creations with the new Saturn parts, let me tease what I’m working on alongside Freedom right now: Space Station Independence - The S-II Wetlab I also believe this has some historical basis too, as before Skylab, Von Braun really wanted to make an S-II Wetlab, before that got Scrapped as they only had a certain amount of Saturn V’s in the first and only order I believe. (Ignore the missing engines, that was a design for having a rear docking port, where the J-2’s separate from the mount, but that doesn’t look too good) Also it’s gonna have a small Multinode module in the fairing that docks to the crew tunnel in the S-II conical Interstage. It’ll provide docking for the airlock, large crews and possibly a power module if needed. One last thing to the people who know lots about rockets here, was the Saturn 2 suppose to be cheaper than the Saturn 1B, as if it is, I’ll probably use it as the crew launcher for Independence when the parts come out

Firstly, Amazing! I love what you did with the Altair. I might have to do something like that when I come to the ETS Artemis Missions as that lander isn’t particularly good looking also... Does it actually give performance benefits?! I’ve been playing this whole time with so much lag around Freedom because it was at the time around 400 parts. I have reduced the parts now, but is the performance significantly better?

A compilation of best Screenshots from the ETS Saturn Multibody rockets (some of these are from a while ago, so don’t be bothered by the old parts) The Current state of Freedom in Orbit (It’s about halfway complete!)

Thanks so much man! It means a lot to me to have people who are genuinely interested and excited for my missions, I guess putting these people on the missions is the least I can do

Freedom Expedition 5 January 1990: Less than a week after the Successful docking of Harmony, Freedom Expedition 5 sits on the pad and is cleared for launch the next day It’s now been over a year since Challenger was launched in November 1988, and the 4 previous crews have worn in the station well. However, the events of the crew’s mission will be a bit underwhelming, as no major expansions to the Station will take place over their six month trip to Freedom The Crew consists of... - Commander Kuiper Kerman - Pilot Calvin Kerman - Mission Specialist Misguided Kerman - Mission Specialist Jack Kerman - ESA Mission Specialist Heinrich Kerman ...who will ride to Freedom abort their Block IV CSM, Nova. However, their mission isn’t as underwhelming as it seems, as the Service module of Nova holds one of the crew’s main mission objectives; to test out the physical behaviour of some old heat tile design from a long abandoned reusable spaceplane program... Attached to the aft side of Nova’s SM is three clusters of the “High-temperature reusable surface insulation tiles” (HRSI tiles) made from LI-900 silica, designed specifically for this abandoned project, but also a few Reenforced Carbon-Carbon tiles, along with the thermal monitoring systems for all three clusters. Leading the in-orbit research of these tiles are Commander Kuiper Kerman and Mission Specialist Heinrich Kerman. Their job throughout the mission is to: A- Test how the tiles preformed on launch, seeing how well they hold by going on an EVA soon after reaching Freedom to monitor the state of the tiles B- Test them in multiple conditions such as being directly next to the Spacecrafts Reaction Control System during repeated short bursts, or one long burn. C- Monitor the state of the tiles during reentry and landing via communications with (What’s left of) the service module. Launch Phase Late January 1990, Mid Morning. T-5:30:00, the crew begins to suit up in their Launch and Entry Suits. T-3:00:00, The crew board Nova and are seated in the capsule. T-00:30:00, Fuelling continues, Comms checks with mission control in Houston T-00:00:27, S-IF fuelling arm Retraction T-00:00:11...10...9...Ignition sequence start ...3...2...1...release, release! Liftoff! Tower Cleared! Rolling to flight Azimuth...Pitch program commence “Hey only 5 tiles have fallen off so far!” ”Nova, this is Houston, how have 5 already fallen off?” “Eh they probably didn’t use the right brand of glue; these things never hold” Pitch Program progressing nominally “Nova, Houston, you are halfway to burnout, Over” ”She sure is a wild ride!” “Begin the G-Limiting program” ”Copy that, F-1A throttling is commencing” J-2S Chilldown has started T-20 seconds until cutout Engine cutoff “Nova, Houston, we have Successful Stage Separation” J-S2 Ignition! LES is clear! “Huh, I guess that glue wasn’t as bad as we thought” J-2S has nominal performance...Abort point Delta has been passed, moving to abort to Orbit 2 minutes of burn time remaining. Prepare for Cutoff Nominal Orbital Insertion Spacecraft systems are go SLA separation S-IVB approach Successful docking, Nova, you are go for Extraction Docking phase Nova spends the next two days coating closer to Freedom... Nova preforms it’s Phasing burns Nova Approaching Freedom at 600m away 400m 200m, Nova deploys it’s soft capture ring and targets the forward port on Harmony Nova is now moving at less than a m/s towards Harmony Soft Capture confirmed Successful Hard capture to Harmony! Thanks for reading - The return of Expedition 3 will come sometime tomorrow because I’m tired and have to wake up in 5 hours

I mean when I was making the S-II Wetlab that I posted on Twitter earlier, I wanted to have the top LH2 dome exposed so I can build on that. However when attaching the fairing, it completely converted the dome with a Truss. I tried to get rid of it by clipping the fairing in, but then half of it was in the fuel tank. Other people may have reasons too, but that’s a main one for me.

Uhhh hey @Zorg The new S-II fairings look really nice, however can I ask one small request? Would you be able to add a B9 switch to remove this truss from the middle of the 4.25m and the 6.25m fairings? It’s nice and it works well in lots of situations, however I think quite a lot of situations would benefit from just having the outside ring and the fairing.

Freedom Expedition 5 should be coming tomorrow. I would post it tonight but I’m quite tired to type it up, seeming it’s like twice the size of my normal missions too

Sounds like a plan to me, Commander! Note: I’ll probably get a proper flag to mockup the Shuttle tiles properly. Right now they are at 100% opacity so they don’t make the very opaque patch when they cross over, but it stands out a bit Also Double Note: I’ll explain in the post, but they are mounted on the SM in order to test regality during launch and the mission, and then their performance during reentry.

I mean, Pappystein just knows everything doesn’t he

Nope, I don’t know why it would

Thank you everyone for 6 Amazing years of BDB! You’ve completed hanged KSP mods forever and set the new standard for modding. Keep up the good work! Saturn SA-1 SA-1 was the first launch of a Saturn I, and the first launch of a vehicle from the Saturn family - so certainly a historic launch! Back in 1961, NASA didn’t use all up testing like was done for the Saturn V, and basically every rocket nowadays. Instead, only the S-I was active, with the S-IV being a dummy stage with a Jupiter nosecone topping it off. The Flight Objectives of SA-1 were simply to test the structure of the launch vehicle during a suborbital flight I think this is one of the best replicas I’ve made - It’s come out so good! I also have a video of the launch that I’ll post soon, but I want to sync it up with the actual launch Audio, the one where all the engineers scream “GO!”

You'll have to ask him for it

Cheers dude

Uhh truthful made a Config for it. It’s not in BDB sorry

Hey everyone, here’s a bit of an update on Freedom Since Sunday, I’ve been busy, and My computer hasn’t been too cooperative either. I haven’t had the time to launch the next Mission to Freedom, and when I did, KSP auto updated and corrupted the save. Luckily I had a backup. I’m also getting my new computer very soon, so that will be a delay to Freedom. Also, I’ve started learning Blender with the end goal of possibly/maybe starting KSP modding with another person. All of this is to say that Freedom will be delayed and it might be a small while until the next launch, but I’m not quitting. I’m committed to this and I’m gonna try and get the missions done when I can and as quick as possible. Thanks

I decided to make good use of the new Saturn 1B parts... Skylab Wetlab concept By the way, there’s a really weird Shadow glitch that appeared about a week ago. I don’t know what has caused it, but it might be BDB, so don’t mind the shadows lol Launch Array Deployment

Well I’ve taken what Zorg said seriously, and I think I’m gonna try my hand at modelling and texturing. Someone else I know can model well, and I think we are gonna try and make the Pegasus, and design it to interface with the BDB RL-10’s. I have no clue how it will go, but I hope it goes well lol

Yeah it’s a rabbithole - you’ve just got to say no and stop somewhere No there are quite a lot of differences, enough to be noticeable

Cheers man!

Have you got any tips on how to start out or what to do? I feel I put myself and my abilities down a bit and I want to have a go at it

Maybe, I could try. Though, I’ve never been an artsy person In my life, neither have I ever made textures / designed something like that. No time like the present though