BrainiacBlue

Its not landing on Eve that's the problem, pack a chute and off you go. With FAR I managed to get an orbital proble to land with a little gliding and planned lithobraking (AKA: eyeballing the ground and going 'there looks flat!). Getting back from Eve, I have never done it - not even with a probe.

I am impressed by your entry, I almost gave up after the mothership kept snapping after I sent the spaceship on its way. I am now inclined to give it another go. More struts! All of the struts are needed!

The challenge has been modified, a landing of the mothership and spacecraft in the same mission is no longer required. However the mothership must be capable of landing without payload from >25,000m to show the craft would work if KSP let it. Just from my attempts so far the difficulty is not the spacecraft, but the mothership being capable of getting it to 25,000m. The highest I have gotten before releasing the spacecraft is 12,000m. This may be because designs are taken from a working SSTO bolted beneath a modified Albertross stock aircraft. This challenge is tricky.

Own attempt coming soon. Unsuprisingly space exploration is difficult. Most of us on the forums will probably know about Richard Branson and his desire to make a craft capable of taking people to space without the mind numbing price tag. People with far more knowledge of how space works than us have been trying to make a craft that does a number of things to achieve this, which will be our criteria for the challenge: 1. Two craft, a mothership which carries the spaceship 2. The mothership must carry the spaceship to some altitude (>25,000m) and drop it 3. The spaceship uses SOLID FUEL, so SRB powered spacecraft only here 4. The spaceship must get into space and then land at a runway, any runway will do 5. The mothership must be manned but does not have to land (because KSP reasons) 6. The spacecraft must have space for 12 passangers and have at least 1 pilot 7. No mods apart from KAC, FAR, and any non-part/aerodynamics/mechjeb mods 8. The mothership must be capable of a landing from >25,000m to show it can land Required screenshots: 1.The craft (spacecraft attatched) in flight 2.The spacecraft being dropped (both mothership and spaceship in shot but detatched) 3.The spacecraft in space 4.The mothership, landed, with flight results 5.The spacecraft, landed, with flight results If you do all that then you win the Branson Challenge! If someone could create a fancy badge to put in signatures that would be great. Two catagories of winner: Stock winners - Kerbal Pilots FAR winners - Galactic Kerbal Pilots Any better names at all would be appreciated.

I present my first ever successful SSTO:'The Precarious' http://i.imgur.com/8DgPQ3o.png http://i.imgur.com/ANfw626.png http://i.imgur.com/BSqGmTR.png http://i.imgur.com/q87WghI.png It can take a light payload to a 70km orbit and then land back at the runway. Just. I had 2 units of fuel at the end becuase I descended half a continent too soon and had to fly the rest of the way - but this design has promise for an LKO SSTO.

The Philea mission is very Kerbal Space Program. The descent mechanism was literally just point it at the landing site and hope for the best, very kerbal. Then there was the solution to landing, screws, retrothrusters etc. but they just couldn't say no to harpoons - Jeb would be proud. Then the landing, the landing (and most Kerbal landings) can be summed up as: Systems Nominal...ish. This needs to be a scenario in KSP ASAP. The custom asteroid mod can do the shape of 67P right?

Is that an Apollo lander replica? Try not to break anything.

Excellent, all important systems seem to be working but checks are ongoing - wierd to think that as I was driving home from school the most sought after radio signal of the year was hurling past Mars' orbit.

Landing has been confirmed, the lander is firmly harpooned to the comet with landing gear now retracted and ice screws deployed - now we wait for science to happen!

The difficulty is the rover, I chose the mountain platau west of the KSC for location but i can't get a rover there without it rolling slowly off the mountain, shoud have it done by end of tomorrow though.

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, Kerbals of all ages.. I present my entry for the challenge. I call it the Winged Aircraft of Non-Groundness or WANG for short http://i.imgur.com/KrGhWpC.png - Results http://i.imgur.com/4LeAAaZ.png - About to land http://i.imgur.com/WNLBId1.png - Jornie Kerman standing proud and slightly concerned that the craft is rolling forwards I claim my place on the roll of honour!

You spelt virgin wrong in the title

That is the best boat I have seen in KSP. HOWEVER!!! You need to set a new challenge for the game to continue

Disregard this post.

Please put up your own attempt so we know that Hard mode is possible

The tower was destroyed by an SRB. http://i.imgur.com/9NOeb12.png http://i.imgur.com/js3eBYz.png The Spaceplane division is interested in what else can be done with SRBs. Make an SRB only powered aircraft that takes off at the KSC and lands on the island runway.

I'll call it the Plywood Pellican

I present the battery free Plywood Glider! The craft in flight: http://i.imgur.com/D4zhEqv.png We'll call this issue "A": http://i.imgur.com/lKiP6SI.png Flight Statistics: http://i.imgur.com/POKjIPS.png I claim my rightful place on the leaderboard for unmanned craft.

Question: Are we allowed to drop the craft to avoid the use of landing gear?

Ok but it won't count, you'll have to do the Ion probe to Minmus challenge to set the next one as per the rules.

I participated in THE KSP GAME - find it in challenges

They build the community that get it more sales than their own PR (of which they do very little) - I think that is why they do it. More community --> more sales --> more money --> more KSP

http://i.imgur.com/jTgEJWW.png One bridge completed. Next challenge: Land an ion probe on Minmus

If I did this perfectly and then my engine blew up on landing does that void the entire attempt?

Tried several times - no success, so I am giving up on this particular challenge