Gremillion

Thank you sir.

Hey I looked for like an hour and am too dumb to figure out how to install those wicked cool fairings, can someone point me at the post that explains it? As penance, here's a cooperationverse TKS-Barbarian with RD-275s:

These fairings have got me so flippin excited!

I mean I basically wanted an R-7 with H-1 engines, and thought the GE Apollo was a great fit since it has a similar layout to Soyuz, the AU is basically just an excuse Although the AU I imagined was one in which Cordell Hull dies in the late 1930s and is replaced by someone with a rather different temperament, which results in a massive rise of tensions almost leading to a nuclear conflict with the USSR in the 1940s and a joint space program emerges as not only a way to step back from the brink but also keep an eye on each other's critical strategic capabilities.

What if the US and USSR cooperated, instead of competing?

Before I was mostly working on the booster and not the payload, which coincidentally helped hide the sheer size of the Hercules-Pegasus rocket. This should give you a better idea: That little thing at the top is the Apollo LAS.

What a coincidence, I was just binging drewexmachinas' Mercury articles over break at work today!

It's the real Bossartverse hours, boys: That may look like your garden variety Fatlas at first glance, but then you notice the [titan booster for scale], and... wait, those aren't LR-89s!

Booster recovery tests of the central core of the Tunguska booster system, which will eventually launch the Kosmo-Gruzovik spacecraft to trans-lunar orbit.

Glorious Nyancat loading screen day

Was thinking about orbital vehicles that could be as capable as Shuttle, which led me to this contraption: I did not realize the Tantares LES did not come with its own separator, so it remained attached. After building this thing, the thought occurred to me that if the Russians were going to build an equivalent to Starship, maybe it would look like this. Reentry is... Not currently a feature. So I hope you like being in orbit.

Completely fresh install, today we're sending up NASA's version of the Hermes spaceplane with the ETS-inspired SDLV:

Someone said I couldn't make an ETS-consistent SDLV, so I built this: Payload is about 14.7 t (adjusted to IRL metric tonnes) to GTO.

Saturn I derived storable propellant super-heavy ICBM:

I pass Chaffee Blvd every day on my way to work (which is on Armstrong). There's not much more to the alt than what I wrote, but it takes some cues from KS for sure. I'll point out that a very close reading of that blurb would imply that Kennedy (described as "president", i.e., still in office) was never assassinated in that AU. Inspiration was mostly from the nutso Super Jupiter/Juno V/early Saturn proposals, which I've been reading a lot about during my breaks at work, but you'll note the boosters are straight off a KS Minerva. Speaking of Minerva, here's a Kolyma's Shadow splinter-AU mission: "Gus Grissom's X-20 Betty Lavonne and transtage detach from M1 core stage in preparation for the burn that will send him around the Moon as part of Operation Blackwing" I'm generally just fascinated by "Barbarian" rockets (i.e., big boosters made out of effectively spare parts, e.g. Saturn I, MM Barbarian, Douglas Barbarian, etc).