Duna Direct tutorial.

[Cloakedwand72]

Does anyone know how to do a Mars Direct style mission to Duna? I'm just not into doing all in one Lander on bottom of craft like the Apollo style way of doing Interplanetary missions like YouTubers do. And I figured the Mars direct approach is the most minimalist way of doing it. So any good tutorials on how to do such missions? Also pics are for examples.

 

 

 

[herbal space program]

Not sure what you mean by "minimalist", nor exactly what aspect of the Mars Direct concept you mean to emulate, but this is the smallest Duna return capable vehicle I was able to come up with a while back:

 

 

 

It has a mass of only 5.7t at launch, and uses a Rapier ascent stage and Ion propulsion to get as much dV as possible. If anybody has a smaller one, I'd like to see it! But maybe that's not what you meant...

[N_Danger]

This is doable.  An Apollo style orbiter and Duna optimized lander would work.

Moar boosters as needed to make it in one lift.