[KASA- All of NASA's flights recreated in KSP (WIP)]

4 hours ago, LetsGoToMars! said:

Politix! 

Tru.

1 hour ago, Dfthu said:

From wikipedia "Since 1946, NACA (NASA's predecessor) and, since 1958, NASA have conducted the X-Plane Program." It does seem some planes are for the air force or boeing but some are from NASA.

Ugh more work, I will look into it. Building old rockets  and planes are a pain in the butt as they do not have many diagrams of them.

EDIT: Looked into it... I might just do the ones NASA did, as they did not do all of them, even after it was founded.

Explorer was made before NASA existed and NASA did EVEY one after it. So all explorer missions will be put in.

[KASA- All of NASA's flights recreated in KSP (WIP)]

2 hours ago, Dfthu said:

Wow, are you going to do flights like the X flights (X-15)? Also I counted like 321 missions (most likely more) from Wikipedia so be prepared for a ride. Will go up if you include the plane flights. One more thing, how will you handle the ISS and Souyz-Apollo mission? Will you make rockets for the Russia part of the ISS?

Oh boy... 321 thanks for the estimate xD

I do not think I will do the X flights... I actually had no idea what they were until now  Correct me if I am wrong, but they were handled by the airforce specifically, not NASA. The only flights I am including from the airforce are ones that were running a space program that were taken over once NASA was founded. I could add them later as bonuses if they are a popular request though.

For Souyz-Apollo... er... I could make the soviet flights already in orbit...

Or just both...

I dunno.

Time will tell!

[KASA- All of NASA's flights recreated in KSP (WIP)]

2 hours ago, pTrevTrevs said:

Pray for help, you will need it.

 

32 minutes ago, LetsGoToMars! said:

STS will Take forever.

Honestly the hardest part is MAKING the shuttle...

Then I can just copy and paste it 9999999999 and make a "payload" (Hubble telescope should be fun...)

I already have the Apollo rocket design as I did it in my main save, but I have yet to integrate it.

Why does the WORST spacecraft have to have the MOST launches...

1 hour ago, Ourworldalpha1 said:

May the booster gods and Jeb have mercy on your free time

17 minutes ago, Mad Rocket Scientist said:

Subscribed, looking forward to seeing this.

35 minutes ago, LetsGoToMars! said:

I wanted to do something like this with stock parts and Remake 60's rockets, never got around to it. Glad you are!

Thanks for the support! I will release pictures of the Explorer rocket (hopefully) this weekend.

 

Oh and Jeb will not have mercy on me...

I put him in a space prison in solar orbit further out than Eeloo.

He is gonna hate me after he gets out

 

 

 

 

[KASA- All of NASA's flights recreated in KSP (WIP)]

 

I am recreating all of NASA's Flights (And a few important ones that came before) in one save game. You will be able to fly any chosen craft, and complete the mission like it was meant to.

This is gonna take forever...

This will be all stock, no mods required (As much as it pains me... I will not use tweak scale). Starting from the Explorer 1, the first US satellite to orbit the earth, all the way to the present.

Oh crap I am going to have to do 100+ space shuttle missions

This is still heavily a work in progress. I will release a save to the public when I feel as I have enough content. Probably around 20-30 rockets. Until then I will post pictures of the next few rockets I finish. I would recommending subscribing to this forum to find out when it is updated...

However, some crafts will not be exactly the same, due to KSP restrictions. For example, the Apollo missions (I have a prototype on my main save that I made months ago) will only carry one passenger because of size limits.

Work Schedule

Spoiler

Underline = Currently Being worked on.

Explorer Program 1-5

Pioneer Program 0-2

Project Mercury

Project Gemini

Apollo Program

Space Shuttle program *Shivers*

Project Constellation...?

Explorer 1:

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Pioneer 1:

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The Thor-Able Rocket used to carry Pioneer 0-2. I did not take pics of the flights as they are all different. It is however possible to get into lunar orbit, even though they are designed to fail.

Little Joe:

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This is a general Little Joe flight. It has a boilerplate capsule and was for testing the launch escape system. In this flight however, it was not used.

NEWS:

While planning ahead for my work schedule, I came across project constellation, the cancelled return to the moon, and then onto mars. Do you want that, and other cancelled programs put into the save?

Back from break... I got Subnautica. That explains it all.

Pioneer 0-2 Are finished. Little Joe 1 is also finished. Pictures are here now. Next I am working on Explorer 7x. finishing project Mercury.

 

[Low cost way to LKO, and aerodynamic heat shields.]

10 hours ago, He_162 said:

Pictures really help. Imagination isn't the extent to which this game can go, it goes much further.

Anyway, I like the idea, I made a vehicle that used only sepratrons to get things into orbit, and I believe the last 3 stages on the satellite could fit in your bay, and bring it to orbit quite easily.

https://kerbalx.com/He_162/STO

Actually, I got the idea from Explorer 1 The first us satellite to get into orbit...

I was recreating it, as I am making a NASA save with all of it's missions (And the few missions that came before, but there program was taken over by NASA, like Explorer 1"

Now they used solid fuel in the orbiter stage. It had a burn time of 6 seconds... in clusters in 11, 3 and 1.

Seperatrons burn for 5 seconds...

The Americans did it first... xD Just not a very well known concept.

I am hoping to get the NASA save on here eventually, but I still have a lot of work to do.

I will add pictures later then too.

[Low cost way to LKO, and aerodynamic heat shields.]

No pictures, sorry. Use your imagination dangit.

 

So forever ago I made a plane that could go 1400 m/s. It was mk2 part size and had 4 ramjet engines. It has to have a heat shield on it because it goes so fast...
Later I slapped a mk2 cargo bay in there thinking... "If I could get this into a suborbital flight, then if I just release a small probe with a lot of speratrons then I could get it into orbit."

So I did.

I got to about 52,000 meters, the majority of the atmosphere gone, and released the probe.

Albeit The Evil Kraken attacked the original probe design, so I couldn't get a perfect orbit but it was an amazing achievement.

The plane then re-enters near another large landmass... and you can turn the engines back on to control you landing...

or crash like I did.

Anyways, it only took about 250 units of liquid only fuel to get up there, and then maybe 12 seperatrons to get the probe into orbit.

That is pretty cheap in my opinion. Getting the entire plane into orbit is a little tedious and fuel intensive.

Finally, the heat shield on the front of my plane is NOT aerodynamic... it would be nice to have aerodynamic ones so you can make a fast plane, and still be protected.