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    Well how else are you supposed to destroy the KSC? Alt+f12 object thrower armed? I don't think so.
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    JEBINI 1: YEAR 1, DAY 278 Two peas in a pod. Crew: Jebediah, Valentina With the Munar Program ended, Beyond can shift its focus to a new age of crewed exploration. The Jebini Program's goal is to test long term Kerbal habitability in space, with the end goal being a 3 month stay on a space station. Jebini 1 will be a 6 day, or 1 week, mission. The rocket will be the Kitten II, as it has proved to us to be quite a capable vehicle. It's launched several robotic explorers off to the Mun and Minmus. The Jebini capsule itself is fairly large, able to hold 2 Kerbals inside. While it'd still be cramped, it could just barely support the crew for a week. As the mid-day sun beats down upon the coasts of the Affini Region, Jebini is rolled out to the launch pad and prepared for launch. Liftoff! Successful Orbit! With Jebini in orbit, Valentina prepares for her EVA. I apologize for the missing atmosphere. I installed BoulderCo for the city lights and more clouds for Kerbin and other planets, but it conflicted with SciFi Visual Enhancements, and it took a little while to fix. I don't know why. It's always worked with other configs, like when I had Spectra installed. Point is, I screwed up. It'll be fixed in a few posts, though. Low orbit EVA. The crew now sit tight in the capsule, and wait for a week orbit before their return. With no science to do, and only 3 board games packed for the journey, the crew find it a little boring. But rather than face the issues of spaceflight, we're just going to time skip a week from now, when the crew are returning home. Splashdown! With the Jebini crew vehicle proven worthy of spaceflight, Beyond prepares for the next milestone: orbital rendezvous.
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    I said that. "Much like on Earth, Kerbals can shift around days, making months longer or shorter." It's phrased pretty weirdly, but yeah they can just make months longer or shorter.
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    How would Kerbals structure calendars? In Earth, we have days, weeks, months, and years. And, from what we see in the game, Kerbals have a very similar way of telling time. Except, we only get days and years, and nothing in between. However, this is still a lot of information to start with. Let’s start with structuring weeks. On Earth, a week is 7 days. On Kerbin, a week could also be 7 days. If we do the math, 6x7, which is 42, a Kerbin day can fit perfectly into a 7 week period. This doesn’t translate very well when compared to a year, though. If we do 426/7, we get 60.8571429, which is a really odd decimal. But if we do 426/6, we get a round 71. It’s be easier to structure a calendar like this, so a Kerbin week is most likely 6 days. Now, what about a month? On Earth, a month is averagely 30 days. If we do the math, 30 days fits well into a year. 426/30=14.2. Much like on Earth, Kerbals can shift around days, making months longer or shorter. Therefore, Day = 6 Hours Week = 6 Days Month = 30 Days Year = 14 Months I hope you enjoyed my Ted Talk.
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    MINMIN 2: YEAR 1, DAY 267 After the successful orbit of Minmun 1, the Minmus task group immediately gets to work on Minmin 2. Minmin 2 will be a lander mission, and will be the next step towards crewed Minmus exploration. From several scans of Minmus's surface, our scientists think that Minmus is not in fact made of delicious mint ice cream, but instead made of just ice. But how is a ball of ice floating in the harsh environment of space without melting? Our little robotic scout will head out, and figure out why Minmus is and how it is. If it, of course, doesn't blow up. Our glorious payload. During Minmin 2's orbit, it will preform an inclination change. This will put it on Minmus's orbital plane, and make a transfer more efficient. Inclination change. TMI burn. De-orbit burn. Suicide burn begins. Huzzah! Minmin 2 is standing on the surface of Minmus! Our instruments are saying that the the ice in the air are able to keep the moon and its ice at around 0oC, and our cameras pick up a very strange phenomena. Snow. Or, something like it. Ice from the ice clouds on the surface seem to be collecting into bigger crystals, and fall back down to the surface. Minmus, despite not having an atmosphere, has weather patterns! This excites scientists all across Kerbin. Instead of waiting for a crewed mission though, what if we brought back science from Minmus? Surface samples, ice clouds, and various other experiment results. While that design goes into the works, Beyond prepares for the launch of the next crewed program: Jebini.
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    I have Kerbals named Asus Kerman and Suspond Kerman.
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    MUNAR 6: YEAR 1, DAY 261 Goodbye Mun Crew: Maugan, Jully, Genenie And so we reach the end of the Munar program. It was a very successful... tens of days of munar exploration, but we've ended the program out on a high note. Just go to the Mun, and return. The Tendagerensis Rocket lifts off for possibly the last time, and the crew make their way to the Mun. The crew orbit Kerbin once, before heading off to the Mun for one last time. De-orbit burn. Successful touchdown. Non-serial killer stare. Space golf with Kerbin in the background. If we're lucky, it might get to Kerbin and hit someone in the head... And with that, the Munar program comes to an end. But while munar exploration will cease, we new things to look forward too. Jebini, space stations, and Minmus. We haven't ended our exploration of space, no. We've only just begun.
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    I have started a new organization: the Monke Space Program! Our goal is to broaden the reach of space monkeys everywhere, based off one philosophy: monkey brain like number go up. With our snack cupboards filled to the brim with bananas, we launched our first vessel into orbit: Le Monke! Jebediah's patriotic display of our glorious flag. Next stop: the Mun.
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    N -6 Let's show them how it's done, Abel!
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    For some reason the tracking station song won't play. Only the tracking station.
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    Selene Lander: Land on the Moon! (Part 2: Transfer and Landing) Mission: SUCCESS! Spacecraft: Daedalus I Rocket, Selene Lander 4/5/64 - 1/8/64 After 2 orbits of the Earth, checking systems and such, stage 2 of the Daedalus Rocket fires perfectly, putting Selene on a transfer to the Moon. For 4 days it floated about space, until it felt the pull of the Moon's gravity. It fired it's engines at periapsis, and put itself into a stable lunar orbit. The targeted landing site is Oceanus Procellarum, a very large and flat area on the surface. After 3 orbits of the Moon, the lander fires its engines, and descends to the surface. Several little puffs of the engine keep the vertical velocity in check, until at 5km, the suicide burn begins. The altimeter gets lower and lower. 500 meters. 100 meters. 50 meters. 10 meters. Silence. Mission control waits for a green light, indicating the landing was successful. It is! Mission control erupts into cheers. We have something sitting on the surface of the Moon! It's instruments bring back loads of data. The Moon is not made of cheese, but it is made of rocks that could be important for science. What if, maybe, we got those samples, and brought them back to Earth?
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    I apologize to those whole follow this thread. I haven't been in much of Kerbal mood recently. First off, I lost my mouse so I couldn't get my mediocre cinematic shots, and also I got Mars Horizon for Christmas so I've been playing a lot of that recently (and I've done quite well too). But I have found my mouse, and I AM in Kerbal mood now, so expect the next post tomorrow. Jebini will fly! Well, that's a few posts away, but something will fly!
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    Branding: Marketing & Such Mission: SUCCESS! Aircraft: New Flag! 9/10/63 With public interest extremely high right now, the CSP has decided to brand themselves by creating a flag! Mars looms in the background, and the Moon is a necessary step on our way to Mars. The arrow isn't pointing at mars though. It's pointing beyond Mars, signifying that it will not be the end.
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    Recruitment Drive Mission: SUCCESS! Aircraft: N/A 5/24/63 With the success of the CREM launch, the CSP's astronaut recruiters have finally released a list of those who have been picked. Cosmonaut Basil Konovalov will be staying. The *NEW* recruits are as follows: Female, Test Pilot, United States: Eileen Baker Female, Test Pilot, USSR: Jasmine Bordina Male, Scientist, United Kingdom: Brandon Coles Male, Electrician, People's Republic of China: Yoon Bai These brave explorers will pave the way for the CSP's manned space program, and for the rest mankind.
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    SAT-ORB 2: Biologicals and Whatnot Mission: SUCCESS Spacecraft: Satyr Rocket, Babylon Orbital Return Module 2/16/63 With the success of the Icarus satellite, and the goal of putting a man in space, the CSP has to step up their game. Now, we want to put a person in space, but the issue is, we don’t know if people can survive in space, let alone get back. So this mission will send up a dog, named “Kitty” (don’t ask). As the sun rises over the crystal clear Hawaiian coast, the Satyr fires its engines, and flies high into the air. First stage cutoff. Second stage cutoff. Orbit achieved! Kitty’s vital signs rose during launch, and continue to be a bit odd as they float about zero-g. Apparently, fluids, with no gravity, kinda just fly about, making a living thing dizzy. Now, can a creature survive re-entry? Yes! They can! Th heat shield preformed flawlessly, and our little space dog returns back to Earth unharmed. Well, disoriented, but still unharmed.
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