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A new computer and a new career save, this time in KSRSS. My first flight in this new game is a quick and dirty kitbash of the Viking sounding rocket, obviously made from the Vanguard first stage: Too bad Kerbal Konstructs is supposedly broken in 1.12, and KSC Switcher doesn't have a config for White Sands, NM. Also, I got tired of the ugly holdover IVA Mercury still has and replaced it with the one from FASA. Only problem I've seen so far is that the interior space is pushed too far forward in the spacecraft: At least it doesn't feel like I'm staring out of a storm drain now.

Idk if anyone has asked for this before, but it would be nice to have a version of this which includes all the TSC pads at the same site as KSC. Before I switched over to my new computer, I "rolled my own" Missile Row and CCAFS with the Tundra pads and Kerbal Konstructs' place feature, but it doesn't look like I can do that in 1.12 yet because of how the launch site system was changed.

Coatl Aerospace is dead, long live Bluedog Design Bureau!

I sense a Galileo kitbash in the near future.

Man I can’t wait for a proper Pegasus. This post made by Gang Saturn

I once met Bill MacArthur during a visit to Kennedy Space Center. It was really cool to hear him talk about this mission, as well as his visit to Mir when he helped install the Shuttle Docking Module.

Yeah, I have, and it’s just alright. The first season was pretty good, but the second season goes completely off the rails into the realm of fantasy.

Why does everyone and their mother go so crazy over Sea Dragon these days? Is it just because it was in a mediocre TV show? That abomination is nothing more than a napkin drawing, probably done after midnight in some musty break room in Huntsville, by engineers whose lucidity and sobriety were questionable at best. oh yeah, nice LEM, by the way.

I just…. I just miss her so much, fellas. Life ain’t the same without a shuttle launch to look forward to..

Where’d you get the info on which windows the boost protective cover blocked off during launch? I was under the impression that the setup was different for each mission.

ATLANTIS GANG ATLANTIS GANG

It’s just cursed.

I hate everything about this concept.

I don’t recognize that spacecraft; is it Solarmax or OSO?

Great, I guess I have yet another question for you... Where’d you get the Chandra?

Amogus

Been meaning to ask; what parts are you using for Hubble and the tool for carrying astronauts on the Canadarm?

What parts are being used to form that thin gold-foiled deck near the front of the payload bay, just behind the docking assembly? I know most of the other greebles are Near Future probe bus parts.

Damn you’re really just gonna one-up me like that, huh? Seriously though that looks pretty great; I can’t believe I didn’t think of using the Canopus star tracker or Apollo EVA lamp as greeble. Better add it to the list of modifications set to fly on Apollo 16...

That’s right; I kitbashed it out of various parts. The main chassis and wheels are from Making History, the antennas are from Near Future, the batteries, TV camera, and control console are from BDB (chalk up one more unique use of the Mariner 10 parts), and the hinges that allow the rover to unfold are from Breaking Ground. Yep, the rover was folded up and stored in the left-front quadrant of the LM descent stage. In real life the J-class LMs had that quadrant opened up so the rover could fit inside, but the BDB LM doesn’t have that option right now, so I had to clip the whole thing into the descent stage. I placed an extra cargo box opposite the rover on the right-rear quadrant and moved the ALSEP pieces there to balance the extra weight of the rover. Once on the surface the LRV deploys just like real life; it’s mounted on the gold-foiled panel which folds out from the LM, then the rear section unfolds and the wheels extend. The front section then unfolds as far as it can go without clipping back into the LM; it was at this point that the above picture was taken. After that the mission commander climbs into the driver’s seat, reverses out with the rear wheels, and fully unfolds the front section. It’s a pretty easy process, actually. You are technically correct.

It’s in the base game; 1.11 added the gold visors along with the orbital construction features. Usually they slide down when a Kerbal attaches a part with their welding torch, but you can also toggle them up or down. I’m surprised you had to add extra fuel to the LEM for it to carry a rover; even in JNSQ’s upscaled environment, with the rover, a cargo box for extra ALSEP components, and additional oxygen and water storage to allow a three-day surface stay, I still have a couple hundred m/s of DeltaV left at touchdown and the DPS can hover at like 20% throttle.

Screenshot Tax: Apollo 15 heads skyward on the start of its journey to Hadley You know, I don't really understand all the clamor for Cobalt to add the LRV; it's not that hard to kitbash your own, fellas. The descent into the lunar mountain ranges of JNSQ was a pretty tricky one, but the science and the views were definitely worth it. Here Svetlana and Bobnard stop at one of the stations on EVA 2, some 3,300 meters above the nearby lunar *maria*. Fun fact: Apollo 15 is the only lunar landing mission in which the American flag was not raised during the first EVA. I don't know why they chose to do it at the end of EVA 2, but if I had to guess the decision was influenced by the busy and tiring work schedule of the surface exploration period. By the way, has anyone managed to perform an Apollo landing in the lunar polar regions in JNSQ? I'd like to have one of my last lunar flights in this career save target the south pole, but I'm skeptical that Apollo even has the power to do that without trying something incredibly dangerous and unrealistic.

What extra capability did Centaur-G provide for Ulysses over the IUS again? I know Galileo would have been able to take a more direct trajectory to Jupiter with Centaur rather than the Venus-Earth-Earth flyby sequence it needed in real life, but even on IUS Ulysses didn’t need anything like that.

In the show Pathfinder was air-launched off the back of a C-5 Galaxy, which in my opinion is a monumentally stupid thing to have it do, NERVA or no. I think a Jupiter side-launch sounds way more plausible.

That’s the Gemini lander engine on top of one of the structural adapters for the Mercury lab (drained of all its monoprop so it’s basically a structural element) with fuel tanks clipped inside.