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[Rutabaga22]

Ad Astra-2: Launch a satellite to geosynchronous orbit.

Mission: Success!

5/10/63 (M/D/Y)

Rocket: Satyr IIB, Siren Liquid Upper Stage

Pre Mission Status report: Project Zeus has been leaked by someone within CSC. World governments rapidly begin talks with the government in order to prevent the militarization of outer space, these talks rapidly led to the drafting of a treaty banning open weaponry in space. One nation negotiated the allowing of weaponry inside of manned missions in case they need to defend themselves when they return, but that was the only exception. A group of diplomats from every country that signed was formed into the "Outer Space administration" a neutral world government entity to monitor spacecraft. The spacecraft branch has designed a second Ad Astra satellite designed for going to geosynchronous orbit.

The launch control facility buzzed with excitement, a second Ad Astra mission has been set up and it is launching today. Spacecraft engineer Arthur Simpson entered the password to his computer and began the countdown to launch. 50 minutes... 20... 10... 5... a shout came from comms "Avionics activated!" the countdown had 10 seconds left and the umbilicals attached to Satyr detached. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, the rocket bolted upward, a sooty cloud flying behind it. The first stage shot back toward the earth and the second stage shot onward toward space. Orbit achieved. The launch controllers got up and stretched their legs for the half-hour wait for the burn to GSO. The kick stage on Ad Astra 2 fired and the satellite entered it's final orbit.
 
Post mission Status Report: Ad-Astra 2 has opened the door to future GSO missions. CSP administration has halted all work on satellite development and has said it is important to accelerate manned spaceflight research. While announcing this change the CSP administrator said, "When that first man goes up there, it won't just be him going to space, he will being going to space with all of mankind."

Edited December 27, 2022 by Rutabaga22
New page!

[tajwo]

MR-AST / MR-1: Manned Research - Abort System Test.

5/22/63 (M/D/Y)

A second prototype of the crew capsule has been devised for this mission. Fitted on top of the capsule is an apparatus designed to protect the astronauts inside the spacecraft from certain death during launch. The second Crewed Re-Entry Module prototype is codenamed Callisto.

Crew: None. Spacecraft: CREM/Callisto.

Mission: SUCCESS !

 

The second CREM prototype to make it off the blueprint lies on a test stand somewhere in Nevada. All of the equipment is tediously tested, re-tested, and even replaced for good measure, before the launch. ....even the batteries...

At some point during the late night, it is decided that there are no more components to test. The Nevada farm space center requests permission from CSP to launch.... permission granted. The abort system fires, sending the capsule up into the sky. The meek solid-fuel canisters on the apparatus barely lasted two seconds. Shortly after the abort system ran out of fuel, it was detached from the capsule. The parachutes deploy successfully, and it lands in a field.

During post-launch inspection of the spacecraft, one engineer began a monologue about the uselessness of the mission, asking why there was a test stand when it would be much better to place it on top of an actual rocket and fire the abort system while the rocket was flying in the air to determine whether or not the device would be able to fulfill its intended purpose. His monologue was interrupted by a high-level CSP executive who fired him on the spot.

Edited December 27, 2022 by tajwo
Forgot a date. Thanks Kerbalsaurus

[Kerbalsaurus]

Recruitment Drive

Mission: SUCCESS!

Aircraft: N/A

5/24/63

With the success of the CREM launch, the CSP's astronaut recruiters have finally released a list of those who have been picked. Cosmonaut Basil Konovalov will be staying. The *NEW* recruits are as follows:

Female, Test Pilot, United States: Eileen Baker

Female, Test Pilot, USSR: Jasmine Bordina

Male, Scientist, United Kingdom: Brandon Coles

Male, Electrician, People's Republic of China: Yoon Bai

These brave explorers will pave the way for the CSP's manned space program, and for the rest mankind.

Edited December 27, 2022 by Kerbalsaurus
Nevermind, sorry Tajwo

[Rutabaga22]

Ad Astra-3: Full mission capsule test

Mission: Success!

9/2/63 (M/D/Y)

Rocket: Satyr IIB, Siren Liquid Upper Stage, 4 strap on SRBs

After months of testing CSP has decided that it is ready for a full unmanned flight test. Launch control counts down to liftoff and the rocket blasted off the pad, the four SRBs belching out a bright gray gas beneath them. The boosters shoot off the side of the rocket and the engine throttles up to max power and flies out of the atmosphere. The Siren upper stage detaches and lifts the capsule to orbit. 5 hours later the capsule deorbits with a small solid motor mounted atop it's entry module. The capsule reenters flawlessly, the proven compressed gas thrusters pushing it toward it's targeted location in the southwest region Pacific. The next launch is planned to be a manned mission to orbit.
 

Spoiler

I'm too tired to do a detailed mission like I usually do.

[Kerbalsaurus]

Branding: Marketing & Such

Mission: SUCCESS!

Aircraft: New Flag!

9/10/63

With public interest extremely high right now, the CSP has decided to brand themselves by creating a flag!

Mars looms in the background, and the Moon is a necessary step on our way to Mars. The arrow isn't pointing at mars though. It's pointing beyond Mars, signifying that it will not be the end.

[Rutabaga22]

Astra Vincere: Manned mission to orbit.

Mission: Success!

12/12/63 (M/D/Y)

Pre mission status report: A candidate has been picked for the first manned flight, Brandon Coles will be seeing the stars moor clearly than anyone in history. Buzz has filled the world about Brandon's flight. Brandon has gone through weeks of training in an X-10 simulator with the cockpit of the capsule. Preparations are complete and humans will no longer be bound to the Earth.

Brandon walked out of the small car, he was at the launch pad. It was a cold day, he would be able to see his breath if his space suit wasn't 1000 degrees. He climbed up the large ladder to his capsule, a slight breeze making the metal of the tower groan, his thick gloves thumped on the bars as he climbed. He pulled himself over onto the platform and made his way to the spacecraft. He buckled up and plugged in the radio, he could immediately hear the chatter of mission control, he activated his microphone and said, "Control? I'm buckled in and ready to fly." Michel responded, "We hear you, Brandon, the flight controllers are initiating launch. Control will be granted after your psychological check on orbit, let's see what you can do." 5 minutes later a light flashed in the capsule, Brandon didn't have a countdown, but he knew that little red light meant he was going to takeoff. He felt a shake, then he heard a loud rumble from beneath him. he said into his microphone "you sons of- you're sending me up there." he saw the small 7-segment display on his capsule tick up rapidly as he shot into the sky. He heard a loud sound as the SRBs detached. Minutes later the lower stage detached and he finally fully comprehended the fact that he was going to space. Over the radio Michel exclaimed, "You've entered space, feel weightless yet?" Brandon Simply responded, "Nope." He finally entered orbit and the mental check began. He passed it, Brandon thought it was mostly pointless, why did they think space would make him crazy? He then unbuckled from his seatbelt, he shouted, "I'm floating! I'm floating! I'm floating!" His inspirational glee was view by millions. He then sat down, buckled, and began maneuvering. After a while he got hungry and tried some Gelatinous Bean Soup, it tasted better than it looked (or sounded) and Brandon made sure to tell the many people watching. He was finally told he had to come home soon and he buckled in. 10 minutes later he detached the maneuver module and deorbited. He used the small compressed gas thrusters to bring himself to the landing site and was recovered an hour later. 

Post Mission Status report: Brandon returned home and did hundreds of interviews across the world and had dinners with many world leaders. He has inspired hundreds of people and aircraft pilots across the planet have applied to the astronaut program. Many comments have been made about the future, but there are continued and unending rumblings about butting a man on the moon. CSP hasn't said anything about lunar flight and not even the highest members of the program don't know if there have been discussions by the administrators about lunar missions.

Spoiler

Can we please start putting indications of date formatting in our posts? It's hard telling what is day and month sometimes.

 

Edited December 28, 2022 by Rutabaga22

[ffx]

Sat-Lun-Flyby 1

Mission: Success!

12/21/63 (M/D/Y)

Rocket: Uprated Satyr IIB (with 12 kedstone tanks along with 12 engines), Modified Siren Liquid Upper Stage

Pre Mission Status report: While Ad Astra-3 was being developed, CSP decided to bash together a Satyr IIC with a Siren Liquid Upper Stage, nearly identical to Ad Astra-2. But the engineers responsible for the rocket realise that a Satyr IIB won't suffice in the delta v department and so they uprated it by adding 4 kedstone tanks along with 4 engines too. The new rocket was dubbed "Uprated Satyr IIB" because the engineers arn't being creative on that day.

The launch control facility, after the high of the last mission, is not excited for this project, as it seems to be a step backwards from the manned mission. But no matter, the countdown has been initiated. After what felt like hours, T-5 minutes was heard in the entire facility. Comms "shouted" in the most deadpan manner possible "Avionics activated.". Soon after, T-10 is heard, along with the umbilicals attached to uprated Satyr detached. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, the rocket screams upward, a sooty cloud following behind it. Only after that a intern says "Wait the rocket seems different". Soon after, the first stage returns back to earth, destroying the aberrant rocket and the modified Siren Liquid Upper Stage escapes the atmosphere of our homeworld. Orbit achieved. Launch control waits until the transfer window opens to the moon twiddeling their thumbs in the meantime. An hour later and the uprated kickstage fires up, kicking up the trajectory to fly-by the Moon. Pictures were taken, and insturments are used, collecting data from the moon for the somewhat short period of time that it has an effect. The probe soon after leaves the Earth-Moon system, making it the first man-made object to leave the hill sphere of Earth^{[citation needed]}

Post Mission Status report: do i really need to explain this, the mission kinda just happened lol and the public kinda just forgot it even exist after like, one week.

Edited December 28, 2022 by ffx

[Abel Military Services]

Selene lander - land on the Moon. (Part 1, launch to earth orbit)

Rocket: Daedalus-1

Mission Status: Success! 

64/4/1

After the success of the Sat-Lun-Flyby 1, we decided to land on the moon. The public thinks that it's a April Fool Joke, but we're taking this serious. We developed the new rocket Daedadus-1, for better performances. Now, the lander is on top of the rocket, and it's ready to go. 

The rocket soars into the sky quickly in the afternoon. After a few minutes, it entered Earth orbit. 

To be continued…

Edited December 28, 2022 by Abel Military Services

[Kerbalsaurus]

Selene Lander: Land on the Moon! (Part 2: Transfer and Landing)

Mission: SUCCESS!

Spacecraft: Daedalus I Rocket, Selene Lander

4/5/64 - 1/8/64

After 2 orbits of the Earth, checking systems and such, stage 2 of the Daedalus Rocket fires perfectly, putting Selene on a transfer to the Moon. For 4 days it floated about space, until it felt the pull of the Moon's gravity. It fired it's engines at periapsis, and put itself into a stable lunar orbit. The targeted landing site is Oceanus Procellarum, a very large and flat area on the surface. After 3 orbits of the Moon, the lander fires its engines, and descends to the surface. Several little puffs of the engine keep the vertical velocity in check, until at 5km, the suicide burn begins. The altimeter gets lower and lower. 500 meters. 100 meters. 50 meters. 10 meters. Silence. Mission control waits for a green light, indicating the landing was successful. It is! Mission control erupts into cheers. We have something sitting on the surface of the Moon! It's instruments bring back loads of data. The Moon is not made of cheese, but it is made of rocks that could be important for science. What if, maybe, we got those samples, and brought them back to Earth?

Edited December 28, 2022 by Kerbalsaurus
Wrong Date

[tajwo]

MSR-LT / MSR-2: Manned Spaceflight Research 2. Long-term endurance, and attempt at EVA.

During this mission, a cosmonaut will stay in orbit for longer periods of time than on previous missions. In this case, it's about 10 days, or a week and a half. But missions to our interplanetary neighbors may take even longer, up to several years in some cases.

During the long stay, to keep the cosmonaut occupied, two spacewalks will be performed at the beginning and end of the time spent in space. He will exit the spacecraft and play with children's toys perform important scientific work for the next few hours during each spacewalk. The data gathered from the spacewalks will be very useful for the missions to the Moon and beyond, in the near and distant future.

Mission: SUCCESS !

2/13/64 - 2/24/64 (Month/Day/Year)

Spacecraft: CREM-B, Siren-B liquid-fueled upper stage, on top of Satyr IIc rocket (Nice name choice)

Crew: 1 (Basil Konovalov) or should it be Vasil? I don't know...

 

6 hours till launch. Tests begin on every single component of the rocket and its payload. 3 hours till launch, Basil is woken up and escorted to another room. His vitals are checked in preperation for the launch. Various unnamed medical tests are performed on him. He is deemed fit for the mission. 1 hour until launch, he enters the CREM, which was sometimes jokingly referred to as the CRAMP by the CSP, in reference to its small size and being generally uncomfortable to sit in.

The timer counts down to 30 minutes. Then 20 minutes, 10 minutes... 5 minutes.... 2 minutes. At T-30sec Mission Control begins counting down. "30... 20... 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, begin ignition... 3, 2, 1.. all engines running at full throttle. Umbilical towers detached, and.. liftoff!" Basil's 10 day long journey begins.

The rest of the launch goes well. The boosters and core stage detach, the second stage continues the work of pushing Basil to space. At some point, the second stage cuts off its engine and coasts to apogee. At apogee, the second stage fires again, completing an orbit circularization burn. The second stage detaches from the CREM. As soon as the situation is confirmed to be nominal, Basil immediately requests permission to begin a spacewalk. Mission Control denies him permission to leave the capsule, as the spacewalk is scheduled a few hours into the mission...

A couple of hours later, Basil asks Mission Control again to allow him to leave the capsule. They grant him permission.

He puts on his helmet and seals his suit air-tight. He opens the hatch, and carefully climbs out, making sure not to poke any holes in his spacesuit. He is not free to roam anywhere he wants, he is still bound by a tether, but at least he doesn't have to spend time in a cramped capsule for the next few hours. He plays around with the science experiments, before getting bored after a couple dozen minutes. He decides to take a nap. He is rudely awoken an hour later by someone at Mission Control yelling at him to stop being lazy and get back inside the CREM.

He climbs back inside, seals the hatch, and depressurizes his suit. He takes off his helmet. He asks Mission Control in an exaggerated Russian accent "Why those robots can go to Moon but I can't??" - He receives no response. "It would be great if someone else was here to keep me compan--" - He is temporarily cut off from talking to Mission Control for the next hour, except in cases of emergency. "This is an emergency! I feel lonely!" -He receives no response, but his message is relayed to the CSP. They consider designing a version of the CREM that can carry two crewmembers. If that fails, 3 should be enough for everyone.

 

Basil spends the next 9 days of the mission bored. He finds a camera a few minutes after climbing back into the CREM and starts taking pictures of anything he finds remotely interesting. Mission Control catches on. "What are you taking pictures of? Stop wasting film! You should take that with you on your second spacewalk instead!"

He impatiently waits the next several days until he can ask for permission to leave the capsule for a second time. Mission Control grants him permission again. He grabs his camera, climbs out of the capsule and looks around. He spots an island that looks pretty funny to him. He takes a picture of it. For the next few hours he takes more pictures. He takes pictures of Cyprus, Crete, Taiwan, and some other islands I don't remember the name of... At night, Basil takes a picture of Europe. He remarks that he can tell West and East Germany apart by their city lights. Nobody on the ground believes him.

Mission Control tells him to get back inside. He complies. An hour after he gets back inside, they tell him to begin the de-orbit burn. All four retro-rockets fire simultaneously. After they run out of fuel, they are detached from the CREM. He secures the hatch with duct tape. Not long after, an uneventful re-entry ensues. The capsule's parachutes deploy, and he splashes down safely. He is recovered by a naval vessel close-by. A notable loss in bone density is recorded. Other than that, no ill effects have been observed yet from Basil's 10 day vacation in space.

[Abel Military Services]

Recruitment Drive

Mission : Success 

64/4/25

A list of new members: 

Jebediah Kerman, male, test pilot, Mexico(He said he's from another planet)

Kirk Newton, male, test pilot and engineer, U. S. 

Alexandero Asiimov, male, USSR, chemist(who can make alcohol everywhere)

Catherine Brooks, female, U.S., test pilot

[tajwo]

MSR-D / MSR-3: Manned Spaceflight Research 3, Carry two people in the same capsule.

Two astronauts will be spending time in space for about 20 days, two times the mission time on MSR-2. Both astronauts will perform spacewalks at the beginning and end of the time spent in space.

Mission: SUCCESS !

64/5/18 - 64/6/08 (Year/Month/Day)

Spacecraft: CREM-C, Siren-C upper stage, on top of Satyr III.

Crew: 2 (Василий Коновалов, Kirk Newton)

 

Usual pre-launch procedures. Both crewmembers were woken up 6 hours before the launch, and had a variety of seemingly nonsensical medical tests performed on them. 2 hours before launch, they are placed in the new capsule. It is bigger than before, so the rest of the rocket has to compensate. During the remaining days of April, the CSP was trying to figure out what rocket to use for the mission. Should it be a new Satyr rocket? Daedalus-I? Entirely new line of rockets?

One of the... dumber people in the team of engineers suggested to "just make it bigger." To everyone's surprise his suggestion was taken seriously. Satyr III is somewhat bigger than the Satyr II, to hold the crew module. The Siren-B was also "just made bigger," being developed into the Siren-C.

The timer counted down as usual. As it was counting down, various other nonsensical tests were performed on the rocket and its payload. As all the tests were eventually completed, the timer counted down to T-0. The core stage and the two boosters on the rocket fired up. Umbilical towers were seperated from the rocket and crew module as it lifted off without any problems, to the surprise of everyone there.

"Rocket is now traveling at Mach 1.... Boosters are now dead weight, jettisoning them."

Eventually the core stage ran out of fuel, too

"Core stage has gone out as well. Jettisoning core stage and firing up Siren-C..." The Siren-C upper stage fired up and did the rest.

"Siren-C cut off, coasting to orbital insertion burn...." "Firing up Siren-C for a second time to perform orbital insertion.... complete !"

After the Siren-C outlives its usefulness, it is jettisoned.

 

In orbit, Kirk and Basil are given the go-ahead to leave the spacecraft for about 5 hours. They both seal and pressurize their space suits, and crawl out of their respective hatches. They do plenty of SCIENCE! including taking pictures of various islands and continents...and each other, producing a somewhat iconic photo of Basil being reflected on Kirk's visor. At night, Kirk decides to attempt to prove Basil wrong. He squints his eyes as hard as he can, trying to draw the borders of West and East Germany in his head. He fails to see anything out of the ordinary. Just boring old lights. He thinks to himself "maybe that Russian guy has time traveling powers..."

Eventually they are ordered to go back inside. They crawl inside their hatches and seal them shut. They depressurize their space suits and carry on with their even longer stay in space. To pass the time, CSP occasionally brings in friends and family of the crewmembers to speak to them through Mission Control.

Approaching the end of their time in space, Mission Control tells them to leave the capsule for the second and final time. More SCIENCE! is done outside. Of course, more pictures are taken too. Kirk has a brilliant idea and takes a picture of the Moon. "We'll go there one day..."

At the end of their last spacewalk, they get back inside and close the hatches for the final time. As Basil searches for the duct tape inside one of the many unnamed or even mislabeled compartments, a guy at Mission Control tells him the following:

"You're reaching for the duct tape, aren't you? I know you are. We've ran the hatches through zillions of tests, you do not need to patch them up with duct tape. Our poor engineers would kill for even a few centimeters of duct tape! Don't you know how lucky you are?"

Little did he know, Basil was laser-focused on sealing the hatches with duct tape, and barely heard half of what was being said to him until after he had finished the job.

"Too late, already finished."

"Okay, whatever, just... fly safe, have a nice re-entry."

The retro-thrusters on the bottom of the capsule fire, slowing down the capsule to a perigee inside a lower layer of the atmosphere. Usual re-entry ensues. Mission Control notes that Kirk had almost gone unconscious due to the harsh gee forces on re-entry. On recovery, it is also noted that both crew members' bone density significantly decreased.

 

(Happy new year!!)

[Kerbalsaurus]

Tranquility Lander: Land on the Moon, and return with samples!

Mission: FAILURE!

Spacecraft: Tranquility Lander, Daedalus I Rocket

8/24/64

With the success of the Selene Lander, the CSP builds a 2 stage lander that will pick up surface samples from the lunar surface, and bring them back to Earth. As the Moon rises above the waters of the Hawaiian coast, the Daedalus I Rocket fires up its engines and flies high into the night sky. around 20km up, a warning light appears, warning that there's a pressure build up in the fuel lines. Flight engineers think it's fine though, and the flight continues. As the rocket flies further and further, the pressure seems to get worse and worse. That is, until a vast silence falls upon the signals. Naval vessels report debris falling around the area of communication loss. The pressure became so high in the fuel lines, that the rocket blew up.

Edited January 3, 2023 by Kerbalsaurus

[Abel Military Services]

The Space Snack Bar - sell snacks

Mission: failure

Spacecraft: snack pushcart

64/9/1

Due to the failure of the Tranquility lander, we lost all funds. But, we still have enough money to buy a pushcart and some snacks. 

But, when we're selling the snacks, a passing truck lost control and crashed our pushcart. Luckily, no one is harmed. 

Edited January 5, 2023 by Abel Military Services

[Deddly]

Mission: fundraiser

Craft: legs

64/9/1

SUCCESS

 

All staff are asked to sit on the side of the road and beg people walking by for handouts. People seem to be in a happy mood today and the CSP manages to scrape together just enough to buy another snack cart and some hotdogs for the next mission.

[tajwo]

Mission: Fundraiser-II
Craft: Hot dog stand, what else would it be?
64/9/3 - 64/9/8 (Year, Month, Day). Success !

The CSP are forced to sell hot dogs on the side of the road, again. It goes relatively well for the first few hours until...

A guy notices the stand. "Why would a space program sell hot dogs? Aren't you supposed to be firing rockets? I'll buy one, but you owe me a trip to space later!" he says. He hands one of the staff a piece of paper with his phone number on it. He buys a hot dog and walks off.

The staff laugh it off at first, but then they start to think about it more. "Should we do tourist missions when we have the money?" One worker says to another. A (soon-to-be former) executive overhears the conversation. He interrupts both of them.

"ONE failed probe reduced us to selling hot dogs! It's already bad enough if we kill an astronaut. What do you think would happen if we killed a random tourist?! All of us would go homeless!" Most of the others argue with each other for a bit before someone notices that they're scaring off potential customers. The executive is dragged out of the stand and fired. A few other people are also forcibly removed. Opinions about space tourism become slightly more negative among the public. They manage to raise enough money, despite the occurrence of what should have been a PR disaster.

[Abel Military Services]

The invasion! 

64/10/15

Incident report: 

At 7: 00 three unidentified objects entered the atmosphere. Spectrometer analysis shows that they're made of titanium, iridium and [REDACTED]. After entering the atmosphere, they ejected several escape pod-like objects. When these objects hit the ground, they caused big nuclear explosions. The government has been destroyed. CSP members were called together to fight back. 

Edited January 8, 2023 by Abel Military Services

[Kerbalsaurus]

Stoping the Invasion

10/16/64

Craft: Big Nuke

Mission: SUCCESS!

With the mysterious objects destroying… some government, the CSP has vowed to launch a weapon to destroy. The Soviet Union has supplied them with the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever made. They launched it at the craft, and boom! The craft fell into the Pacific Ocean. When life forms were recovered and interviewed for why they’d done this, they simply said: “We do a little trolling”.

[tajwo]

After the CSP was rudely interrupted by aliens casually trying to destroy humanity, they resumed their activity in space.

 

Lemur I: Test flight, for hardware to be used on future manned lunar flyby and orbiter missions.

Spacecraft: CREM-D, LNM (Lunar Navigation Module), Siren-C2 upper stage.
Rocket: Daedalus Ib
Crew: 2 (Eileen Baker, Brandon Coles)

01/14/65 (Month/Day/Year)

 

Same pre-launch procedures, as always. 6 hours before launch, both crew members are woken up. 2 hours, they are placed in the 4th iteration of the Crewed Re-Entry Module. Below them is the Lunar Navigation Module, for performing orbital maneuvers and the like around the Moon. The intended flight path for future missions will be as follows: Daedalus Ib rocket will send the payload to sub-orbital trajectory, Siren-C2 will circularize its orbit and perform Trans Lunar Injection. Then the Siren-C2 will be decoupled from the rest of the payload. In the Moon's SOI, the (second generation) LNM will capture into the Moon's orbit. For now, on the next mission, the LNM is only intended for Lunar flyby missions. But this mission will not do any of that. It's just a basic hardware test flight in Earth's orbit. Enough talk, let's see this thing go to space! or not....

The rocket's components pass every single test, and are deemed fit for launch. Mission Control begins counting down. At T+ 1 second, the rocket lifts off from the launchpad. About 6.5km up the atmosphere, one of the engines on the Daedalus Ib fizzles out, before the rest of them follow suit shortly after. Abort procedures begin, the CREM-D is decoupled from the rest of the rocket and the abort thrusters fire. The crew is safely shot out of the vicinity of the rocket. Their capsule parachutes down to the water, and they are safely recovered. Meanwhile, Mission Control watches as the Daedalus Ib behemoth falls lower and lower, and crashes into the ocean. It is also being broadcast on television. Probably not a good look...

"Well that sucks. At least we have money for a second attempt... Maybe we should call that guy at the hot-dog stand instead, and ask him if he still wants to go to space." Brandon tells CSP over the radio. This is the first time the public hears about the "guy at the hot-dog stand", definitely not the last either. Eileen approves of Brandon's idea.

 

Mission failed. Post-mission report:

The CSP still does not take the proposal for a tourist mission very seriously, but they do notify the aforementioned unnamed "guy at the hot-dog stand" that he may or may not be going to space in 5 to 7 months, if all the stars are aligned just right. Not right now, CSP has better things to do. They also tell him not to brag about his future trip to space to any of his family, friends or acquaintances. The CSP begins preparation for the opening of Community Spacelines. Fly first class right next to the pilot, for the low price of $25,000!!! The first few flights will be completely free of charge for anyone who wishes to fly to space.

Edited January 24, 2023 by tajwo
I seem to always kill this game every time I post for some reason..

[Kerbalsaurus]

Lemur II: Prove technology for future lunar missions.

Mission: SUCCESS!

2/6/65 (MO/D/Y)

Spacecraft: CREM-D LNM Variant, Daedalus IB with Siren-C2 Upper Stage

Crew: Eileen Baker, Brandon Coles

After the failure of the CSP's last attempt of a lunar proving grounds test, the CSP prepares the backup vehicle in case the last mission failed. The mid-day sun beats down upon the humid islands of the Philippines, but Eileen and Brandon are soon inside the cool, air-conditioned capsule. The countdown starts: 10, 9, 8, 7, and so on. The Mighty engines of the Daedalus rocket thunder to life as the rocket lifts off the ground. After 8 minutes, the spacecraft arrives into orbit unharmed. Eileen puts on her EVA suit, and steps out of the capsule to preform experiments and practice activities that will be done over the Moon. After around  hour on EVA, she gets back inside the capsule. and the crew wait for around 7 days before returning safely back to Earth. This was perhaps the CSP's most successful flight, as everything went according to plan. A flood of funding goes into the CSP, and they start to think about perhaps going beyond the Moon, to those little dots beyond Earth.

[Abel Military Services]

We found this broken launch log in a computer from the old CSC launch complex. It seems not very good…

[DATA LOST] - Protect humankind using [DATA LOST]

Status: L.O.S

Vehicle: Satyr II and [REDACTED]

62/12/[DATA LOST] 

After receiving direct order from [REDACTED],  the CSC and [DATA LOST] and [DATA LOST] started building a satellite that uses [DATA LOST] technologies to protect humankind from [REDACTED]. 

After launch, the powerful satyr II booster soars into the sky, carrying [DATA LOST]. A few minutes later, the payload was successfully delivered into the target orbit. 

A few days later, the communication with the payload was lost. The presumed reason was [REDACTED] attacked the payload and it [REDACTED]. 

Comments: 

It seems like the situation was very bad, huh? 

                                     ----Dr. [DATA LOST] 

 

 

Edited March 16, 2023 by Abel Military Services

[tajwo]

Lemur III: Crewed mission to Lunar orbit + spacewalk.
5/18/65 - 5/29/65 (Month/Day/Year)
Spacecraft: CREM-D/LNM, Siren-C2 upper stage, Daedalus Ib
Crew: 2 (Василий Коновалов, Kirk Newton)

After the successful Lemur II mission, the CSP decides to skip a crewed Lunar flyby mission entirely and shoot for the Moon... its orbit, not the surface just yet. A couple probe and satellite missions are planned to be launched before that. "Community Spacelines" has been quietly shelved for the time being, with the CSP becoming laser-focused on the Lemur program. A Lunar landing is planned to be attempted no earlier than mid-1966.

The usual pre-launch stuff. Lots of testing, lots of counting... down... Eventually, the Daedalus Ib lifts off and soars into the atmosphere. Within 15 minutes, the CREM-D and the Lunar Navigation Module are in a stable parking orbit. The trans-lunar injection burn is performed by the Siren-C2 before it is jettisoned too, and the spacecraft begins coasting to the Moon's SOI. The Lunar Navigation Module fires its thrusters to capture into a Lunar orbit. After all parts of the spacecraft are confirmed operational, Kirk and Basil pressurize their spacesuits. Kirk opens the hatch, retrieves a camera from one of the mislabeled storage compartments, and leaves the capsule. He marks certain points of interest on and around the Moon, and takes pictures of them. After using up all of his scientific instruments and film, he gets bored and climbs back into the capsule. They spend the next several days talking with each other and with their families through Mission Control until they are finally cleared to depart from Lunar orbit and return to Earth. The LNM fires up for the final time to leave the Moon's SOI and place the crew on a trajectory to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere, and then it decouples from the capsule shortly after.

The usual re-entry begins after a couple of days of getting closer and closer to the Earth. The CREM-D splashes down, and is later recovered by a nearby naval vessel.

Success! Even more money is poured into the space program, which is always good. Future cosmonauts from the wider Eastern Bloc flood into the CSP's recruitment offices. The discovery at the former CSC launch site is suspected to be either related to the Zeus mission, or an elaborate hoax orchestrated by a former employee.

[Kerbalsaurus]

Huygens 1: Preform the first flyby of Mars.

Mission: FAILURE!

7/19/66

Spacecraft: Huygens Probe Bus, Daedalus II Rocket, Siren-C2 upper stage, Huygens transfer stage.

Yes, the day had come. Humanity was finally going to leave their little home planet and go beyond! The brand new Daedalus II lifts off from the CSC, high into the sky! The Siren-C3 puts Huygens 1 successfully into LEO. Computers reported an issue with antenna deployment, but Mission Control was going to try their chances. The Huygens Transfer Stage (HTS) puts Huygens 1 on a flyby course to Mars. However, at about the distance of the Moon, communications is lost with the probe. While it will still most likely flyby Mars, it will not return any data. Thus, the mission is deemed a failure. Maybe we have a backup in storage…