I did some more testing of my Kraken V heavy-lift launch vehicle. I decided to see how far it could get in a straight-up launch. As the second stage burned through (5 Skiff engines) I got a polar encounter with the Mun completely by accident. I got to 300 km before I ran out of fuel. Screenshot below:
As I beat my record time up there (roughly 45 mins in-game time)the Mun gave me a nice little kick, pushing my solar apoapsis up to a whopping 11,000,000,000 metres. It'll reach there in roughly 11 (Kerbin) years.
I also did a little more work on my drone VTOL. As nice as it is to be able to travel at almost Mach 3, I decided to swap out the afterburning jet for a Wheesley as it has thrust-reversal, which is very useful for vertical landings!!!
Tomorrow I plan to continue the build of my LKO station in my 'serious business' save game.
@Angel-125 Your post cloned itself for some reason