deadmeat1471

The goal: Land on the Mun. Make it back alive. Beat the Koviets from placing their evil flag on the Mun! A little experiment for me, I'm going to give myself a budget and cost calculate each mission, I will give myself a budget for every ?mission and it will rise or fall based on the amount of fail/success. To gauge this I will be ripping off 'Race into Space' the old dos game for the success value for various missions. *I'm sure this has been done before, and will be done again. This is purely for my own entertainment and for anyone who wants to help me get to the Mun! Some notes for me: Budget: [To be decided] Rules: -Kerbalnaut families get $1000 for every death for compensation. -Test missions are cost calculated too. -Budget will increase/decrease by 10%/20/40 based on performance of missions. -If someone gives me a full idea in this thread for a component(landing stage maybe) I must pay double the cost to add it to my rocket(To purchase the part). -Satellite missions are using the 1 crew command module, it is assumed that it is empty! The 'prestige value' of unmanned missions is correspondingly lowered. *Additional ideas welcome! Current components to be worked on: -Orbital Satellite -Suborbital capable rocket -Budget price!

Yeah orbit was easy[Errorrrrr] *are you suggesting my genius design could be faulty in anyway? Note: The large main engine assisted by the SRB's are more than enough to achieve orbit.[Wait, I have miscalculated somehow. I think I added weight. It is no longer easy to achieve orbit!] **I did have one issue before, the struts were linked to the SRB's, so when the SRB's detached, they took the top part of the craft with it. True Kerbin engineering. I'm working on another Orbital rocket stage, come up against some stability problems, will fix them and continue!

*Note to self. LEM engines must fire before CSM engines. Or else my poor kerbalnauts will be using the puny LEM rockets to get back from the Mun.

I've been playing this for a while, but I'm far from an expert. Here is my latest simple design for a 'Mun rocket'. It will near definitely need more fuel tanks for the Trans Mun Injection trip, and the TKI(K=Kerbin) trip back. I will test it properly and see how far it gets as it is though! More pics will be incoming. *Edit I need to work out how to make the engines fire so that the LEM rockets are used mostly for the munar landing.