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A new age of interplanetary travel is nearly at hand! KSC flight directors decided to see if the Falcon MkIII was Ike capable, and Bill was up to the challenge. This is pretty much exactly the same rocket and lander that was used to get to Mun Booster separation Up and away! Second booster separation Transitioning to orbital stage Burning for Duna The plan is to aero-capture with a periapses of 20km altitude, and then transfer to Ike.. should be a piece of cake Uh oh... things are looking a little hot.. Trajectory is sub-orbital.. Bill is going to have to improvise Bill deploys the chute at a speed of about 650m/s.. hopefully it holds The chute killed horizontal velocity, and drops vertical to about 20m/s, a short burn is required before touching down "This was the plan all along!" -Mission control Liftoff of the now named Red Dragon lander! Gravity turn External fuel tanks are dropped Burning for Kerbin Posing for the ladies Ike will be visited another day Duna is one of my favourite places This is the hottest re-entry yet! Bill thinks it's time to upgrade the insulation on the command pods An icy mountain landing

Quick question, Does anyone know of a mod that adds a claw for grabbing asteroids for small probe parts? I want to make a Rosetta replica but the 1.25 parts seem too big.

lajoswinkler seems to enjoy 30 minute plus burns while in physics warp.. this would make me want to punch through my monitor.

Preparing for touchdown Green Dragon has landed, turns out that Minmus surface samples really do taste like ice cream! Bill wonders if he could make a Minmus frozen treats business on the side.. side effects may apply. Liftoff of Green Dragon Bill burns for a Kerbin return trajectory After grabbing data from the instruments Bill detaches the pod from the lander and braces for atmospheric impact Bill glimpses the lander burning up through his viewport Bill decides to take his feet off the floor after his boots start melting A mountainous, but mostly safe landing, Bill only slid 50 feet

Slate requires a very similar lander to tylo, it just is harder to push something all the way out to sarnus I think I can do a landing much more efficiently now that I've had some experience with tylo landers, as at the time of this mission I had not yet landed there.

Cool ship!

Astronomers interstellar, distant object enhancement, realplume... and I think that is it Edit.. planetshine is in there

Batteries in the service bay, no solar on this one because i forgot to update it with new parts like the mun lander. I do have KER, I try to optimise my rockets so they have slightly more then the required t/w for their situation, and try to give them the exact amount of required fuel for a mission with each stage fulfilling a specific purpose if I can, with a cushion of about 1000 delta V. I fine tune each rocket and payload according to the mission. This leads to very efficient rockets The Mun rocket actually had significantly more delta V then required.. Enough to get me somewhere else I think..

Bill needed to land on another body in order to test parachute repacking in a low-g environment, and so it was decided he would be the first to step on Kerbins small moon Minmus. Although Bobs recent trip to Mun has cast some doubt on the solar food theory, it is postulated that Minmus could still be a food item even though Mun was not, therefore Bill also took a set of ice cream scoops. The Falcon MkII was one of Werhner Von Kermans earlier designs, it couldn't quite make it to Mun, but for Minmus it should be sufficient Booster separation After matching orbital inclination, a regular Hohmann transfer sends Bill on his way to the icy moon After ditching the orbital stage a small injection burn from the lander had Green Dragon in stable Minmus orbit Coming in for a landing! More pictures to come! (I have to go to work now )

Next up! Bill has his eye on Minmus!

Shooting for the Mun! After proving the concept of space travel with Jeb's orbital flight Werhner von Kerman was given the go ahead to begin construction of his Mun rocket. Bob drew the short straw and was selected to be the first Kerbal to set foot on another world. Launch of the Falcon MkIII lifter Dropping boosters The Orbital stage kicks in to finish up circularizing Bob is very excited to see if the Mun really is a wheel of cheese... it sure looks bigger then from Kerbin Bob is the very first Kerbal to ever witness a Kerbin-set Bob begins Munar maneuvering as Kerbin rises, dropping the orbital stage. The plan is to land in the large crater visible on the horizon Dropping down to a suborbital trajectory There seems to be a lot of hanging dust particles in this area, perhaps a recent meteorite strike kicked up some fine debris? (Is it technically correct to call a meteoroid that impacts a body other then the Earth a meteorite?) Bob hopes that doesn't happen during his visit Distance to surface is 4m, 3, 2, 1... We have touchdown of White Dragon! Bob can't wait to tell the world about his Munar cheese tasting adventure After gathering "scientific" data from the surface Bob begins the ascent to Munar orbit Jeb and Val made him promise to take a cool picture for the magazines, and now that he is it does seem kinda fun! The sight of Kerbin coming over the horizon brings a tear to his eye Bob gathers the data from the doomed instrumentation and places it in the command pod Lowering the Kerbin periapses to 45km and removing some orbital speed, external tanks are emptied and dropped Entering the atmosphere It took a few passes through the upper atmosphere before the orbit became suborbital The chute was just a little singed and deployed correctly We have splashdown!

Looks awesome so far

Thanks! I started a new thread for my new career save, I expect we will make a return to Moho http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/137222-New-Beginnings-A-Career-Playthrough

Thanks! More missions to come!

First orbital flight completed! Liftoff Booster separation, I hate these first few rockets, the fuel tanks are too short which needlessly increases part count and encourages wobbling An orbital trajectory of 73X84 is achieved! Jeb does a quick space walk to grab data from the mystery goo pods Final stage separation, Jeb prepares for re-entry Coming in hot Kerbin has pointy mountains Landed Safe a few km away from KSC

Since my last career was corrupted (probably because I have way too many mods), I added another mod and started a new game XD. Anyway this thread will be used for posting notable mission reports from this new career. Mission suggestions are welcome. Mod list: Active texture management The RTG, and LANTR engines from atomic age Astronomers Visual Pack Crowd sourced science Distant object enhancement Kerbal engineer Hyperedit (for fixing glitches, and running "simulation" tests) Community Tech Tree KerboKatz automatically adjusting landing legs KSPX MkIV SpacePlane Parts Mechjeb Modular Rocket Systems Multiports All of the near future packs Outer Planets Mod with EVE configs Realplume RLA stockalike Taurus HCV ScanSat Space Y and Space Y expanded Station Parts Expansion Trans-Keptunian Tweak Scale (I try not to use this one too much) Kerbal Alarm Clock

After completing tylo and moho return missions I think I can say I've mastered the stock solar system

Im gonna find out this week

Refined the efficiency of my Laythe lander and transfer system

This is the best thread in Mission Reports

When I have so many mods my career game gets corrupted periodically

I also get this problem It doesn't happen at first, but after I've done 20 missions it locks up

I did a full mission with the new lander, the lifter rocket and transit stages were pretty much at their operating limits and the mission was barely successful. The lifter had t/w issues getting LKO, and the transit stage had abysmal t/w and was very close for delta V requirements. The Thanatos launch system will be replaced for future laythe missions once I have better parts unlocked.

You monster

What did you say about never making as good Tylo mission as me? My ass you can't lol, I have yet to do a Jool 5