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W. Kerman

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SHUTTLE 1.A  MISSION

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^Here is the shuttle, the Shuttle1. It has a Rhino engine and no cargo to hinder it...

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^The booster is based on the Russian Proton booster. It 20,000 KiloNewtons of thrust.

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^Here I learned a valuable lesson! If a large amount of weight is on a Rhino engine without autostruct (Which is now stock!)... Well, it provides hinge-like function.

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^IN ORBIT!!!!

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^Orbital picture taking is fun!

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^Reentering the atmosphere at high speed.

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^I wanted to land on the runway. Also, someone really paying attention to this might be wondering why I'm going to the KSC in the opposite direction relative to my orbit... I overshot on reentry and went slightly past the islands, turned around, and used my remaining fuel in the Shuttle1 to get back the KSC's grassy fields, if not the runway.

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^Rolling along...

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^The OMS system blew up on reentry as seen here.

 

This was a fun mission! :) 

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SHUTTLE 1.B MISSION

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^I knew I needed a better booster if I was going to complete this mission, so I made the Electron booster.

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^I don't use KebalX, so I made a replica of the Fuel Pod. It weighs slightly more than 40 tons- I still have no idea why.

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^Ah, the Shuttle2 shuttle... Only until later would I discover it has horrible stability issues.

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^Here's the shuttle on its booster!

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^Even with autostruct, this thing fell apart many times on attempted ascents.

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^Getting into orbit using the booster.

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^...And the standard, "Yay orbit!" picture.

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^After 2 correction burns, I released the Fuel Pod from the cargo bay.

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^Still had a ton of fuel.

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^This was a tricky process, getting out the Fuel Pod and activating it without disturbing its orbit.

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^This was my favorite screenshot from this mission.

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^The one thing that really irked me was that I could not get the Pe and Ap screenshots normally, so I had to do this instead.

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^Fixing the name of the Shuttle

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^I ended up burning more retrograde to slow my fall to "The wings won't fall off" levels, landing in the waters between Africa and Turkey.

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^Unfortunately the Rhino engine blew up, but that was it. Otherwise this shuttle was ready to fly again!


Oh, just for the lolz, I wanted to know how much delta V I had in this Shuttle, so I landed it in the arctic in a different Quicksave-a-verse!

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