Most historically accurate rocket or spaceplane!

[Singhnaut]

what is your most accurate rocket/spaceplane?

historically accurate to a real or even concept design.

[ugomuse]

Can it be planes too?

[Entropian]

I made a Horten Ho 229 sorta-replica today:

[Geonovast]

Moved to Spacecraft Exchange.

[borisperrons]

Lately I have built some replica crafts, especially for challenges. It's a new way of building for me, following a preexistend design, and is teaching me a lot about creative building.

 

Soviet N1-L3 Moon rocket

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Soviet Soyuz 7K-LOK lunar spacecraft and LK lunar lander

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Soviet Luna 17 lander + Lunokhod rover

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NASA MEM martian lander

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[jimmymcgoochie]

I made an almost real scale Black Arrow replica- nearly identical in size and even in performance in the first two stages compared to the original. This rocket turned out to be really similar in size to stock parts (2m first stage compared to 1.875m parts from Making history and 4’6”- 1.37m- second stage which closely matched the 1.25m stock parts) which made things much easier.

I also made a replica of the hypothetical ‘Black Prince’ rocket that used the first two stages of Black Arrow as its second and third stages, with a larger Blue Streak missile as the first stage for increased payload capacity.

The Black Arrow alone can do Mun or Minmus land and return missions using a small and lightweight probe, and the Black Prince with a much larger probe made it to Gilly’s surface and returned with fuel to spare.

Also on the theme of historical accuracy: all four Black Arrow rockets were launched from the Woomera test range in Australia; there’s an additional DLC launch site called Woomerang which is clearly named after Woomera (and boomerangs, also Australian) on Kerbin. It’s about as historically accurate as you can get in stock KSP to launch a Black Arrow from Woomerang!

[Singhnaut]

On 10/8/2020 at 6:49 PM, ugomuse said:

Can it be planes too?

yup

 

when I thought shuttle was the same as Saturn, I also thought was the same as

On 10/8/2020 at 9:25 PM, Entropian said:

I made a Horten Ho 229 sorta-replica today:

I CANT SEE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE AAAAAAGGGGGGGGOOOOOOOONNNNNNNYYYYYYYY

[Entropian]

3 hours ago, Singhnaut said:

I CANT SEE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE AAAAAAGGGGGGGGOOOOOOOONNNNNNNYYYYYYYY

What browser and OS are you using?  You can also just go to the original link and see them.

[Singhnaut]

I figured it out anyway. Great job!

[RoninFrog]

Here's a rocket/spaceplane combo:

In orbit:

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Read more here:

 

Edited November 4, 2020 by RoninFrog