evader

Many attempts were made during my march towards advancing my tech tree in science sandbox mode.  Finally after discovering the Mammoth engine was I able to make my tallest yet most slender rocket.  It had to be held together in a suspension bridge fashion with struts connected to the radial booster rockets.  This meant they could not be jettisoned until all lower MK3 stages were used up and even then the top boosters had to wait for all MK 2.5 stages to jettison lest the rocket snap like a twig.  It did not make it back on the return trip but luckily Kaette survived the fall back down to Moho with a well timed ejection.  This was a bare bones design but I still managed to transmit a soil sample and other reports that only a Kerbal can do in place of a robot.