RP-1 launch escape system

[Nich]

If you watch much RP-1/RP-0 on youtube you will see everyone loves making LES.  So out of solidarity I have continued to waste mass on them in my rockets.  Well yesterday I had a main engine cut out 128 seconds into flight.  It was supposed to be a 140s stage.  I had designed the the craft with 10,200 dv plus 800 dv for on orbit manouvors.  So I figured I could abort to orbit riding the verners until it was safe to stage.  After about 15 seconds the verners exciede their control authority and the rocket pitches up to 25 degrees and FAR starts to rip apart the vehicle.  You know how joints start to shimmy.  I panic and try to remember how to abort.  By the time I find the backspace key main tank had just exploded and just after I pulled way second stage blew up.  Honestly it was the most exciting thing to happen to me in a long time.  Kerbal survived but decided to take a 9 month vacation even though I had another rocket on standby to complete the contract.  Everyone else is training for the Mercury program so it looks like I will complete this contract just a month before the dead line but I can't take anymore contracts for 9 months until this is off my back log.  (I messed up and took 6 interplanetary contracts that will not complete for almost 8 months for the shortest to Mercury.)

[Snark]

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