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I can’t wait to see the next post. I’m reading through again, and I had to like the posts because they’re all just so good! The screenshots look amazing, and it feels like you’re there with the crew, watching everything unfold! P.S. sorry to bombard you with like 50 notifications.

Please? Is such a shame to see this vibrant community full of so many bright people be torn apart by something as silly and mundane as two versions of a game.

I don't know, I wasn't there. How many roads must a man walk down?

Nice! The idea of Apollo Era technology merging into Constellation-Artemis Era technology is a really cool idea. I know it happened in real life, but this interpretation is much more exciting than, well, what actually happened. Also, you uploaded the same picture 3 times.

August 17TH, 2029 - Artemis 13 Today is the launch of a very special Artemis mission. The first inhabitants of Artemis Base Camp! For the past 2 years the base has been under construction. On board, the crew will have some food prepared ahead of time in small pouches, but also they will try something else: growing plants on the Moon! This would provide the crew with extremely fresh food, healthy options, and boost morale. After all, if I had to pick between eating gray mush and eating celery, I'd probably pick celery. As the Afternoon Sun beats down upon the Florida coast, the countdown reaches T- 1 minute. The crew for this mission are two American astronauts, Adrian Harrison and Callista Christianson, one Canadian astronaut, Grover Warwick, and one European astronaut, Alexis Lestrange. T- 10, 9, 8, 7, 6... ...ignition sequence start, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Liftoff! Artemis 13 continues high into the sky. After approximately 8 minutes in flight, the core stage is separated, and the Exploration Upper Stage (EUS) puts Artemis 13 into a parking orbit. The solar panels are deployed, comms systems are checked, propulsion systems are checked, gimbal is checked, and all other important systems. Everything is good, and the crew are given the all powerful words "Go for TLI!". The one RL10C-3 roars to life, and the crew begin the three day journey to the Moon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ August 20th, 2029 - Crew Arrival After 3 days in space, Artemis 13 finally arrive at their destination: the Moon. Once in orbit, Artemis 13 will prepare to arrive at the Lunar Gateway, where they will spend one month before heading down to the base. Just a few hours later, Artemis 13 makes it to the Lunar Gateway! However, the crew have another important job. While on board the station, the crew will begin preparations for the docking of the Mars transfer habitat. This is quite an important job. While they won't be here for the docking, it's important everything is set up so that when the docking team do finally arrive, they will have everything in place for them. We will now log off, and wish the crew the best of luck on their mission. The crew go for an EVA inspection of the station. Writer's note: I will be on vacation for the next week, so this thread will not be updated for a little while. Until next time everyone!

July 20th, 2029 For 7 years now, the Artemis Program has been going strong. Artemis Base Camp has been set up, the Lunar Gateway has grown considerably, and several more countries have joined the Artemis Program. Including China! This why today, on the 60th anniversary of the Moon Landing, NASA announced something ground breaking- the first mission to Mars. The media is unable to talk about anything else. The technology is proven, international relations are good, and the support is strong. It's time for humanity to make the next giant leap. Artemis 13 on the launchpad, a few weeks from launch. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- People have done recreations of humans on Mars in the 1980s, people have done recreations of the Constellation program. But I'm doing an idea of what could be. Provided the Artemis Program goes well with 2 launches per year, and the U.S. and China get over their pointless quarrels, this is a future that can be! Expect the first post either tomorrow or a couple days from now, I need to smooth out a couple bumps with the SLS. Inspired by these threads: One Giant Leap | An Alternate History of Space Exploration by @track The Hyperion Program: Kerbalkind's Return to Space - It's Back (Again)! by @Autochrome Kānāwai: Ares to Mars by @Jay The Amazing Toaster The Integrated Program Plan | A reconstruction of NASA's follow up to the Apollo program from 1969 by @Beccab

This is a mission report, not a challenge. Rules aren't needed.

At least there was still India.

How do Octopodes think? They clearly don’t think like us.

Yeah, never happened.

Rules?

I don’t know, I mean, I like the prospect of living in a city. Maybe not New York because you most likely will be caught dead if you leave central Manhattan, but the idea of being around many people is definitely one that stands out to a social person like me.

I’ve continued working in Cities: Skylines, but with a brand new city. I’m making a city that’s inspired, and kind of a parody of New York City, called New Yorkshire. The 5 burrows are called Womanhattan, Creeklyn, Kings, The Brynx, and Staten Isle. I’d show a screenshot but I don’t have any.

NORTH EAST CORRIDOR I know this meme is like a million years old, but I've spent a lot of time working on this. I will take one major city from each state and rank it. Most of the cities are state capitals, but that's only because there aren't many big cities up in New England. The chart is rated by economy, diversity, industry, and the general quality of living in that city. Sorry if this thread comes across as mean to anyone, it's simply more based upon opinion and is supposed to be harmless fun. S TIER None A TIER New York City, Boston, Philadelhia, Hartford B TIER Providence, Concord, Augusta, Montpelier C TIER Concord (it was kinda in between B and C) D TIER None E TIER Atlantic City F TIER None

YEAR 3, DAY 111 - K-1 TERROR BIRD INCIDENT REPORT After looking at the plane's design, it was figured out that the K-1 crashed onto the beach because its mass was off center. The two terrier engines on the wings made the plane too back heavy. It's been decided that, before designing a plane capable of reaching space, it'd be better to develop hypersonic technologies. This would revolutionize the aerospace industry, and meet the demands of some of our commercial partners. Thank you for listening to this statement.

The Space Shuttle also had a capacity of about 27 tons to LEO, and the regular Apollo CSM had a dry mass of about 12 tons. Once again, the Apollo Block III would most likely weigh less so the Space Shuttle’s definitely more than capable of carrying it to space. However, the dimensions of @TruthfulGnome’s mods may not be 1:1 with real life, but who knows. Maybe he will include it.

YEAR 3, DAY 105 - K-1 TERROR BIRD (2) Crew: Stamon To kick off the three years in development K-Plane program, Beyond is pulling out and old classic- with a twist. The first goal of the K-Plane program is too put a plane on a suborbital trajectory. The Terror Bird is obviously not capable of suborbital flight by itself, so 2 terrier engines were added to the wings. Let's start the program! The plane takes off and... ...immediately backflips and crashes onto the beach. This is going to be a long program...

Well, the Shuttle's cargo bay was about 18m (60ft) long and about 4.6m (15ft) wide. The Apollo CSM was about 11m (36.2ft) long and had a diameter of about 3.9m (12.8 ft). The Apollo Block III is half as long I think. Yeah, a lot of cargo space is taken up by scientific instruments and such, but it's safe to say that the Block III would fit quite well inside of the Space Shuttle's cargo bay.

January 4th, 2033 - 'Tor' Airlock Module Germany has so kindly built an airlock for CSS, which will be flying to the Moon today. While no damages were done to Concord during Aurora 8, repairs definitely have to be done this mission. The station needs to be maintained after all. The module was done being built in November, and was shipped to Korou and put on an Ariane 7 stack. It was actually quite a streamlined process, all things considered. See, I'd get formulaic here, but I feel these posts are getting repetitive. TLI burn Orbital insertion burn With the airlock module attached, one more launch is needed before we're ready to send crew back to the space station.

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DANG sweet setup. If the computer isn’t the issue, maybe you could launch truss segments along with cargo bays full of hella struts, and strut the station to the truss? That’s what I want to do with my space station. Maybe even build the truss first and then add the crew segments, like @BechMeister did with K.G.01.

October 17th, 2032 - 'Joueuse' Module Ah, 2032. So far it's been the ESA's busiest year. It would be more busy if France would hurry up the development of their module. CNES sort of dragged their feet in building this addition to the space station, but they have it done before the end of 2032, which was the deadline, so they're off the hook. As for the module itself, it's a small habitation module that will go directly opposite of UK's Logistics Module. An Ariane 7 is rolled out to the launchpad, and the Joueuse module begins its journey to the Moon Once in orbit, engineers discover that there's actually quite a bit of fuel left in the Ariane 7's second stage. Enough to preform the TLI burn in fact. Mission control gives this a go, and the TLI burn is done with a slightly different engine than usual. Afterwords, the AAUS is separated, carrying the Joueuse Module the rest of the way to the Moon. Lunar circularization burn Joueuse has successfully connected with the CSS. However, on might notice a small issue with the space station. There's no airlock! The module to be launched will be Germany's module, which, thankfully, will also be an airlock module.

May 10th, 2032 - Aurora 8 Returns After 3 months aboard the CSS, Aurora 8 prepares to make it back to Earth. The crew board the ACTS, undocks from Concord, and begins the journey home. Rather ironically, I forgot to get a picture of them actually burning to get home. Aurora 8 ends with a perfect splashdown into the Atlantic Ocean, not far off the coast of French Guiana. Europe celebrates the safe return of their pioneers!

I’m sorry this keeps happening to your space stations. Maybe you might have to invest in a better computer? Granted, it’s dumb to dump thousands of dollars into a computer for one video game, but if there are other games you want to play or projects you want to do a better computer might be the way to go.

So I've been thinking about the lander for the space station recently, and I;m wondering what I should do for it. Should I make an ELLV-2 or use an ESA crewed spacecraft proposal called the Smart Upper Stage for Innovative Exploration (SUSIE). This is a planned crewed spacecraft by the ESA as Arianespace's competitor to Starship. Maybe it could be used as a test on the Moon or something. Article about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Smart_Upper_Stage_for_Innovative_Exploration&useskin=vector