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Gives the term 'Sugar high' a completely new meaning!

Hello every one and Merry Christmas! Here's a Christmas Special for all of you! Act 1: The tales of Liberty Christmas Special: Gaseous Gifts! While on Liberty, Kerlorff noticed that the oxygens tanks were low all of a sudden. By generous estimates, this would most probably last 30 days more. Thus, a resupply mission was planned. While KSC had other projects to consider, this mission was of paramount importance. It would also give them an opportunity to check a new vacuum engine. Unusual? What do you mean? This color scheme is completely normal! KSC is totally not banking on Kristmas to boost its popularity! A few minutes after ignition, the CRB(Candy Rocket Booster) ran out of fuel and was jettisoned, and the second stage engaged. This was a new, yet unnamed Vacuum engine. It performed beautifully and burnt till an orbit of 100X 30 km was reached. After a small burn, the second stage circularised. After a couple of burns, the cargo finally rendezvoused with the station. Come to think of it, we really need to invest in some lights... As with other modules, this was also remote controlled by Val and docked to the station. And thus, Liberty had more than enough oxygen for an year worth of operations, and enough nitrogen for five years!

Well... vehicles inside the magnetopause should not really be affected by the Solar Storm anyways.. so no need to worry...

I got you covered bro! Despite what the general populace may think, hurling rocks after a couple of beer is certainly entertaining! 9/10 would totally hurl rocks again. NCR=2 edit: NCR = number of cans required.

I believe Kerbalism calculates radiation damage as a function of "total habitable area" and "shielding". So ,for instance, having a large habitable space, but only one hitchhiker fully shielded(Like some sort of storm shelter) will not work out as you would think.. In that case you need to disable the habitats of the unshielded crew compartments. (I know I am almost right.. But I could still be wrong) Also, what's the altitude of your space station?

Thank you for your consideration and compliments! However, be warned! This is not going to be a literary masterpiece

Here's the next update. This was an easy mission, I did it ages ago. But an irritating mission held me back.I will be posting the next chapter tomorrow or maybe day after tomorrow. Act 1: The tales of Liberty Episode 3: At the Liberty Station, the daily operations continued as usual. To be frank there was not much to be done. While Val would occasionally do course correction and Kerlorff would run maintenance on all mission critical elements, it was Sheiling who was bored the most. All he had done was float around get some EVA reports, and even they were not worth much! However, his boredom would soon be alleviated. KSC had been instructed to launch a Science module to milk out all available science. A big tank of monopropellant will also be included because apparently, the new suit designs demanded monoprop for propulsion instead of the much more convinient "EVA Fuel" On a bright morning, the payload,Liberty Modue -2 had been integrated with the launch vehicle and was ready to be launched. The payload will rendezvous with the space station and then authority will be relinquished to the crew aboard liberty. The powerful thrust of the Mainsail engine on the launch vehicle led to it achieving achieving apoapsis very quickly, thus resulting in a long coast time and gravity losses The payload rendezvoused with the Liberty Station without any incident, however. Researchers at KSC still had some work to do before automated docking became a thing, so this time, Val will be controlling the payload once it gets within the range of their antennas. “Ground control, this is Liberty. Taking over the controls of the package now.” “You are a GO, Liberty” Soon, Val slowly nudged the Science Module and docked it to the Station. "Do you see all of this??" Sheiling floated around the Mobile processing Lab like a kid in a Minmus Icecream store."They even have a paper AND a pencil!" Indeed, the Mobile Processing Lab was equipped with State of Art research facilities. Because no matter how much computers advance, they can never truly replace the might of paper AND pencil! Soon Shieling was having the time of his life! The only thing which bummed him out was that the experiments were attached OUTSIDE the module. It was a little extra work(Ugh!) but at least he might clock the necessary EVA hours needed for being eligible for the Duna mission. However, despite the happy atmosphere, Kerlorff was having some trouble with the HG-5 high gain antenna on the core module. While it was not necessary in LKO, the failure of such an important component within a few weeks raised some red flags for the manufacturer, Ionic Symphonic Protonic Electronics. Thankfully, Kerlorff had informed the Ground control of a potential failure of the antenna and a spare also sent up with the Science module. Thus, an issue was avoided, at least until the next part failure.

And now it begins....

Well ,it seems the game does not want me to update the next part... sometimes I forget to record.. Well dont worry, the next installment of the Space Exploration Initiative: The Tales of Liberty will be online day after tomorrow!

Yay!

Well done! How did you map out the excursions though?

I'm Okay! I'm okay! Just bawled my eyes out in a crowded bus but I'm OK now. Thanks BTW.. and keep writing!

Is it bad that i pictured my long lost lady love, smiling at me? Damn it.. this is going to be a night full of tears and self loathing for me again... Although i must congratulate you @UnusualAttitude, your writings invoke all sorts of emotions..

Naah...that's too much work...

Also, is their texture in the game folder somewhere? in .dds format?

Hmm.. has Mort appeared in any of the trailers? I can rip a picture from that...

Hello, I am in need of high resolution pics of the supporting cast of Kerbal Space program (Mortimer,Gene, Werhner etc) Can someone point me in the right direction?

We are nowhere near the original topic anymore

The ship is separates into 2 parts, the Mars Transfer Vehicle and the Mars Excursion Vehicle MEV separates from MTV and gets a 500m/s 'kick' This lets it reach Mars 20 days earlier. The MEV aerocaptures into orbit first and then descends as a single unit. After surface mission is over in 20 days, MTV is now overhead, in a hyperbolic orbit. The crew gets in the ascent stage and kicks to orbit. It then accelerates to match MTV velocity, they dock and then after a 800m/s of boost, they are on their way to a Venus Swingby. Using the Venus Swingby, they will sheat off their orbital velocity and fall to Earth's SOI. @DAL59

Oh.. But in Kerbin's SOI, even if you rendezvous with the asteroid on hyperbolic trajectory, you know that by burning retrograde you will fall back in Kerbin's orbit. But once my ascent module docks with my spaceship moving at escape velocity in Duna's SOI, how do I make sure that it will fall back in Kerbin's SOI after departure? Congratulation on the new attraction!

When I set a maneuver node, I can at most see 3(?) SOI changes. Any way to increase that?

@Nuke Your 5 stars are testament to your achievement! Congrats! But have you attempted the 'Crocco' trajectory? (Burn only once at Kerbin and set a Kerbin- Duna- Kerbin free return orbit...)

Tsiolkovsky is literally my display pic...... Dont need to remind me of that one... No I meant, how do you think a mission whose major component will just flyby be more massive than a mission whose entire spacecraft will burn for insertion and then again for ejection? Maybe there is a communication gap here..

Umm, please elaborate? I mean English is not my first language..

But we are only accelerating a relatively small Ascent module to hyperbolic trajectory. Far less fuel required than accelerating the entire vehicle to that velocity. Also, they wont be doing any capture burn so propellant saved there too! The descent stage is given a 500 m/s boost when it separated, so theres a 20 day time gap. Although yes, if you missed once, there might be another chance....