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Purple Space Program A Big Celebration due to Gravity! AKA: What happens when you strand Jeb on Eve for too long Hullo! "Not Manley" here, back with a for-real-this-time attempt at mastering Eve. Last year I put together a joke play-through based on an old Scott Manley YouTube video where he made fun of its auto-transcriber. This resulted in a, "big celebration due to gravity." I know at least one person thought I was taking it seriously. A recent career change has left me with several days of paid vacation time, and since Alien Space Programs was fixed I thought I'd have a proper go at it. Only, let's have a proper goal: Develop a single-stage-to-orbit craft for use at Eve. No small task, considering it's nearly impossible to do in pure Stock. And while any number of add-ons can enable an Eve SSTO craft, let's try to keep it as close to Stock as possible. The Conditions: Career mode play-through, Normal difficulty Only Purple Space Centre as a ground station Signal required for probe control, terrain and plasma interference enabled Part pressure limits, part gee-force limits, kerbal gee-force limits enabled The Universe Changes: Eve as starting point OhioBob's Realistic Atmospheres (55 km ceiling at Eve, surface conditions unchanged), included with Alien Space Programs Ferram Aerospace Research aerodynamics, default settings for part failures and such The Part Add-Ons: OhioBob's Eve Optimized Engines My own Explodium Breathing Engines Kerbal Engineer Redux modules DMagic's EVA Struts, EVA Transfer Bon Voyage automated rover control Quality-Of-Play Add-Ons: TriggerAu's Transfer Window Planner and Kerbal Alarm Clock Kerbal Engineer Redux Stock Visual Enhancements Kronometer (22h 22m days) This closely mirrors my Agencia Espacial Kanada / Hosers In Space story environment. I'm up to four episodes so far. I'm curious about what other experienced Eve explorers have to say. Until then, I'm "Not Manley." Fly Safe. Parts 1-4 Milestones: First launches, part tests on land and in Explodium Sea. Managed to get to space unexpectedly, gets low space science. Aircraft! First explodium-breathing engines. And no one dying, oddly. Survey contracts, first reusable craft attempts.