SSTO Crew Transfer

[Scarecrow]

This was designed for transferring exchange crew to and from my stations in LKO.  It has a capacity of 8 Kerbals and can be used for servicing stations up to a 250km orbit.

 

Action group keys are :

1 - Toggle engine mode

3 - Toggle airbrakes

5 - Toggle the docking port and cargo bay doors

 

Download craft file from KerbalX 

 

[Geonovast]

This is driving me insane.  If that thing is pure stock, what makes the tail fin do that?

[qzgy]

22 minutes ago, Geonovast said:

This is driving me insane.  If that thing is pure stock, what makes the tail fin do that?

Putting two of them in the space of one using mirror symmetry. Then having them deploy different ways. 

[Scarecrow]

What @qzgy said.

[Geonovast]

That's both genius and disheartening at the same time.  So the parachute ones are, what, just offset radial chutes clipped in?

My whole world is a lie.

Thank you.

[Scarecrow]

On that SSTO there is a drag chute attached normally just below the tail fin.  On my Apollo style capsules, I tend to attach 3 radial chutes to a small girder or beam, which itself is attached to the top of the capsule.  I then use the offset tool to lower the girder so that it is out of sight, and allowing me to attach the escape tower to the top of the capsule.

[AeroGav]

Looks like a workable design !    I have a mk1 design that's a real fuel miser,  probably takes longer to reach space than yours,  though you can knock quite a few minutes off your time to orbit if you fly agressive

 

https://kerbalx.com/AeroGav/MK1-Griffon-Deep-Space-Crew-Shuttle