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Background: Before the history of space exploration, an error of a copyist working for dictionnary books editing happended at the word "space". He put by mystake instead the definition of the word "water". The error was unoticed, and then all the Kerbals thought that "space"... was water. Then, hundreds of years later, in the new Kalendar, the "Space" exploration began, at year 0. We sent a lot of sounding rockets, grinding a bunch of science and money, and fulfilling contracts. But then, Mission Control decided to send a Kerbal in Space. So, the great engineer, Serguei Korolevitch Kerman designed a new rocket, the R-0, with 4 "huge" boosters attached to the core stage that can carry the brand new Kostov spacecraft. The Kostov can support huge pressure, and also equipped with a basic system to manage his water ballast ( check great MOIST mod). It can hold hardly one Kerbal. This Kerbal is Valentina Tereshkovitska (Jebediah and Yuri Gagarinov were to afraid to go). Now let's launch, launch date: Year 61, april 12. When the boosters are jetisoned, there's a nice effect that Korolevitch imagined, well, just to impress all Kerbals watching the launch. We're doing a pretty fast gravity turn, we just wan't to reach almost the Karman line, to have the time to manage our landing. Then the fairing are opened to let the great Mushni Booster separate the spacecraft from the rocket. Fire! Pretty brutal yes. Just overshooted the Karman line a bit, no matter. Here's the Kostov! Let's splash this. Chute armed, and airbags to stabilize the thing. Jetisoned the aribags, and ready to dive, just open a bit the water intake to fill the ballast tank. The thing here is to manage our vertical velocity. We've a gently descent at about 1.5 m/s. -1000 meter! It's pretty dark here.. Just before landing, we exhaust a bit of ballast to touch as smooth as possible. Landed! As we're here, let's go EVA. Airlock view. Valentina has some ballast inside her "space" suit, I've to managed water intake/exhaust to increase or deacrease vertical velocity, well the same way as before. Now, let's get out of here before the Kraken eat us. We've jetisoned all our ballast by error, we're going at 22 m/s to the surface, that's way to fast, we have to quickly fill the tank to slow our "reentry profile" let's say :) We come at the surface at 10 m/s, just a little jump over water, and now safe again! And wev'e return just at our initial position, let's call the recovery team, the trismark should not be far from us.. First Milestones, great