aaron75

I landed Bill and Bob Kerman on Ike with two mission priorities: 1) Mine ore for fuel. 2) Fix a broken rover. My best landing spot for ore was 200+km away from the rover. So they landed and started to mine, with the idea that once they refueled, they could just take off and land by the rover. Well, mining/refueling was taking forever. So I got this idea that because Ike's gravity was so low, that I could just get a running start with Bill, have him jet-pack his way into a low orbit, and land at the rover site. Sounds easy, right? Well, I used up just about half of Bill's EVA propellant to get to a partial orbit (about 12km up), and realized that A) I needed the other half of the fuel to land, and B) he wasn't even going to be close to the rover. I managed to land Bill without killing him. Amazingly. He was 83km from the rover, so I started walking him in the direction of the rover. Well, I spent a long time just walking a single kilometer, so I resolved to leave Bill there and go pick him up when Bob's lander was refueled. He was out there in the wastes of Ike for 1 year and 372 days...Mark Watney style. But at least Watney had a HAB unit. Anyway, I was able to rescue him, but he was out there for the better part of 2 years before I could get to him.

Wow, I'm really impressed with some of the intricate naming conventions discussed here. I name my ships after songs by Rush. There certainly are enough of them, so I shouldn't ever run out. "Red Barchetta" was my original rocket built to get into orbit around Kerbin. "Cygnus X-1" (deep space probe) "Tom Sawyer," "Spirit of the Radio," and "Counterparts" are all drilling platforms. "Nobody's Hero" is my rescue ship (currently on its way to help some kerbels who ran out of fuel on an injection orbit between Eve and Moho. Sometimes I'll add an acronym for the vessel's function, if I have a few of them: "Bastille Day SM" (service module, does not have a lander) "Far Cry RF" (refueler)

Mostly I listen to Rush. But occasionally I'll listen to Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac, and lately the soundtrack to "The Martian."

I present the refueling station "Killian's Red," currently playing host to the docked spaceplane "Wash 7" and the Mun/Minimus command module "Bastille Day" (behind a fuel module).