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Part IV 5 June 1967: Apollo 2 sits on the mobile launcher, with a few notable upgrades. The 8 H1 engines have been replaced with a singular F1 engine and fins from the Saturn V. This is the first ever flight of a block II command and service module, complete with a docking probe and docking target on the SIVB. The crew board their block II command module atop a modified Saturn IB Max-Q Stage separation. The modified Saturn IB hosts a SIVB-500 series. The CSM separates from their SIVB Lining up with the docking target. At T+2 days, 5 hours, 36 minutes and 42 seconds, there is an explosion heard throughout the command module, Commander Schirra notices dropping oxygen levels and observes a gas venting out of the service module. The crew and mission control scramble to deorbit the CSM and the nearest possible window. "Houston, we have a problem!" After deorbiting the crew observe their damaged service module prior to reentry. Due to miscalculations on the part of mission control, the crew land in northern China, about 250km from the border with Mongolia. The Apollo spacecraft has been grounded. The failure of the program has brought doubts in the minds of congress, both NASA and all its contractors are worried that they will not be able to achieve Kennedy's goal of landing a man on the moon before 1970.

I never planned to kill the crew of Apollo 1, I wanted to make everyone think I would, but used a launch abort instead. Not gonna say anything about future crews though

Part III 21 April 1967: Apollo 1, with its crew of Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee walk down the gantry and into the white room where their Apollo spacecraft waits. After AS-501, several changes have been made to the spacecraft to correct defects observed on the first flight of the Saturn V, most notably an outward opening hatch and an early Block II service module. The crew take one last photo in front of their spacecraft, not knowing that about the ill fate of their mission. Ignition Due to combustion instability, one of the outer H1 engines shut down. Due to propellant in the fuel lines, the FCC assumes that everything is nominal and the launch continues The Saturn IB starts to veer off course and Commander Grissom pulls the abort handle inside the capsule. The LES burns out and canards deploy The LES is jettisoned The drogue parachutes deploy The main chutes deploy The capsule lands on the beach and the crew jolt forward, winding the them and knocking out a few teeth. Apollo 2 is slated to launch in four months with Walter M. Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham onboard. 29 April 1967: A Soviet LK lander is undergoing testing in Star City, USSR. This places the Soviet program far ahead of the Americans as LM-01 is far from ready.

Working on the next one now!

Part II 28 February 1967: Gemini XIII sits atop a Saturn I Centaur on LC-34. Its goal, to test a hypergolic Orbital Maneuvering Engine and single piece Gemini Service Module. The crew boards their Gemini capsule on LC-34, in a month's time, an Apollo capsule will be atop a Saturn IB on this very launch pad. The crew configure their craft for flight as the access arm is retracted. Ignition of the 8 H1 engines. Liftoff Stage separation The six RL10s shut down and Gemini XIII is inserted into a 76 by 72km orbit. The centaur is separated from the SIV A view of the Atlantic Ocean taken from the capsule, nicknamed Freedom. Ignition of the centaur, propelling Freedom into a 72 by 99km orbit. Freedom is separated from the centaur upper stage. Deorbit using the OMS engine. The service module is separated Reentry viewed through Freedom's forward windows Splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico. 18 March 1967: An orbital test of the Soviet N1 moon rocket takes place at the Baikanour Cosmodrome. It is successful and the Soyuz 7K-LOK spacecraft is inserted into Earth orbit. I enjoyed making this part despite the BDB Saturn I's instability. If you have any spacecraft name ideas or mission ideas, please reply and I will probably do it.

If you have a historical vehicle made with BDB, post it here! I remade SA-500F, a fit test of the Saturn V!

Thanks! I’ll post the next one later today. (Hint: Gemini)

I started a KSRSS alternate history series! Its on the forums here

Part I: The Timeline Splits 14 January 1966: Soviet Chief Designer Sergei Korolev survives an operation for haemorrhoids. 2 October 1966: The first Saturn V, AS-501, stands on LC-39A, ready to ride a pillar of flame into the heavens. The first ever flight-ready Saturn V, AS-501, sits atop LC39A, vapour spewing out of the LUT. Damper and Hammerhead, retract. T - 15 seconds, SIC arms retract. Ignition Sequence Start "Liftoff and we have cleared the tower!" Max-Q with a view of Florida. Inboard cut-off. MECO and staging SECO! SIVB separation and ignition! SLA panels jettisoned. The Block I Apollo Spacecraft is separated from the Saturn V launch vehicle. At T+2:34:56, engineers lost contact with the unmanned Block I spacecraft, It was later confirmed that onboard equipment was destroyed in a flash fire caused by faulty wiring. 15 minutes after loss of contact, telemetry from the dormant SIVB indicated a breach in the capsule's hull. Several changes are being developed, but the Block II will only be available in 1968. Manned Block I missions, Apollo 1 and 2 are still slated for launch in 1967.

I've been wanting for a while to send Gemini to the moon in a realistic way and the time has come, what if the issues plaguing the early Apollo spacecraft went unnoticed and Apollo failed, we begin in 1966, for the launch of AS-501, the first Saturn V. MISSION LIST: MODLIST:

I’ve been able to cobble together an LSAM and Jamestown module using the LMDE and procedural parts, for the LSAM, I covered the forward hatch of the BDB LM and clipped a mk1 lander can in the back

I love this mod. Combined with the Kermantech IVA, It is one of the best shuttle mod out there in terms of the orbiter, combine with restock ET and Shadowworks SRBs, and you have a masterpiece.

Help! Scatterer breaks my game. When I am on Kerbin with the mod installed, there are odd effects, almost like the ocean texture floating in the sky, also when looking straight up, the sky has a number of black circles in an almost lattice pattern.

When will we get restock for the Aircraft and Spaceplane parts?

This mod is awesome! I’ve been using it for nearly six months now. A question, are you going to make some of the Apollo Jamestown stuff from for all mankind? Like the LSAM, original Jamestown module and maybe an openable door in the Saturn Instrument ring for all those Apollo 24 recreations.

I have a question. I’ve been wondering why this incredible mod (and ReDirect) aren’t on CKAN. I’ve tried installing both SOCK and ReDirect manually and removing duplicate mods like Waterfall and Module Manager, but it just doesn’t work. I’ve gotten one part from ReDirect and it’s the KS25B. Anyway, thanks for making such an awesome mod