Captain Jeb

Some time ago I set a challenge for myself to finally do a Eve return mission and today I succeeded! I wanted to build something that could put down and return 3 kerbals and a rover. While building I discovered how much of a difference that 3 kerbal capsule makes! But I did it and decided to add a science station as well See the link below for the story. Warning! Picture heavy! Albums not working? btw...

Today Jebediah set foot on Laythe for the first time! After numerous test flights the new NX2 Dragonfly (Planetary Survey Vessel) was finally approved for take-off for it's surveying mission to Laythe. Mission objectives 1: Launch the Orbital Scanner around Laythe 2: Search for high ore mining sites for my planned Laythe colonisation mission. The mission was a big succes.... except that Bill, Bob and of course Jebediah are now stuck in Laythe lower orbit waiting to be refuelled. This was due to losing the Whiplash during their landing on Ike were they refuelled before continuing to Laythe. KSC take off! Getting hot you think?! Love my Minmus ore! Whoeps! You really think we need this part? Nahhhh! Jeb inspects the Orbital Scanner right before deployment. I hate night time re-entries! Wow! We actually made it boys! One of the many flight to find new un-prospected lands. Jool by night. 7%! This is the place guys! And were off again... Only to discover were stranded in orbit with a little over 500 d/v... *Some of the above pictures were taken during test flights but are just there to show you guys the plane. The NX2 Dragonfly PSV is my newest spaceplane specially developed for this mission. She can take off from Kerbin with about 1600 d/v left over in LKO. Can fly to and land on Minmus. Packs 2 mini drills and 1 mini ISRU. With an engineer on board she can totally refuel under 30 days by a given ore percentage of 6 %. She carries 4 Kerbals an 1 Orbital Scanner Satellite that has about 3000 d/v worth of monopropellant. All that at 40 t. (wet mass) with a total dv of about 4100 m/s (including the satellite with propellant). What's in the name? NX2 stands for 2 clipped nukes in front of the Rapiers. Not particularly proud of that but those nukes are just so ugly!