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Thank you so much for the mentioning! Unfortunately I don´t have more pics...but I can clarify on the Laythe landing. I tried to land with the science lab attached but this failed as the lab turned out to be too unstable in order to provide the whole Lander from tipping over. Therefore I had to ditch the Lab on the approach to the landing spot and land on Laythe "just" with the lander. This worked as intended and allowed me to continue my Jool 5 Mission afterwards. Thanks again for the nice task!

Hi there, after roughly 950hrs of playime with KSP on my trusty Xbox I felt like a trip to Jool should be next and as there are 5 Bodies to land on I stumbled upon this great thread and inspiration for a way to do it... So I looked up the net for recreatable ships and landers and came up with this design. Please bare with me as the quality of pics a I did is not the best but I should be able to add more on the design at least. What you see here is my trusty deep space exploration ship arriving in the Joolian system. Besides some well timed Moon passes to brake the 2 remaining huge Tank/Mammoth Booster were used to insert the ship into a nice and stable orbit. For the launch I had 6 of these beasts on the ship and they were much needed although the Xbox was at the limit framewise... The Front was build as the command section and landing unit at the same time. The Lander itself was a replication that I saw online so it contained a heavier and more powerfull 4xVector driven section for Laythe Ascent &Descent and Tylo Descent. For the Ascent from Tylo and Vall, Bop and Poll landings the smaller, upper part was used. I had to skip my first try on this mission as I noticed that the original design I came up with was too instable to launch from Laythe. The Lab visible here was on the ship for a contract requiring me to have a full station on Laythe but I couldn`t land this configuration stable there and had to ditch this mission. Below you can see the fairing that I used to have an aerodynamic cover for the Launch. Below was the extra large tank to refuel the Lander. Here is another pic from behind. The yellow tanks had 7 NERV Engines each and fed the inside tanks as well. They were discarded througout my journey from Laythe to Tylo to Vall, Poll and Bop. Here is a shoot of the smaller Lander with the detached Cone that was needed for the ascent from Laythe. Since I never intended to document this journey the selection if pics is poor but I managed to return to Kerbin and even have a powered Landing near the KSC ( although this return vehicle carries 6 Chutes and a heat shield in case needed). But after all the tanks were dropped I still had around 6k of d/V left in order to return to Kerbin. What an epic ride this was and I can`t tell how my quicksaves exploded and how often I got lost...Thanks for the inspiration to do this!