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I have lost several times since my last post. I'm the biggest loser here. So does that mean I win?....

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Me too. Just lost again

I LOST AGAIN!

I wouldn't say anything. I would just lie on the ground and play dead until Mission Control catches on. or they actually think I'm dead and abandon the mission...

Baby-sat? Baby satellite I already posted this before but that was only the panel in the middle, this is the full strip ^

I lost about 3 times, I did not post anything here, I will make up for it. I lost, I lost, I lost, I lost This game seems weirdly familiar like I already played it....but i can't recall much

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MSR-LT / MSR-2: Manned Spaceflight Research 2. Long-term endurance, and attempt at EVA. During this mission, a cosmonaut will stay in orbit for longer periods of time than on previous missions. In this case, it's about 10 days, or a week and a half. But missions to our interplanetary neighbors may take even longer, up to several years in some cases. During the long stay, to keep the cosmonaut occupied, two spacewalks will be performed at the beginning and end of the time spent in space. He will exit the spacecraft and play with children's toys perform important scientific work for the next few hours during each spacewalk. The data gathered from the spacewalks will be very useful for the missions to the Moon and beyond, in the near and distant future. Mission: SUCCESS ! 2/13/64 - 2/24/64 (Month/Day/Year) Spacecraft: CREM-B, Siren-B liquid-fueled upper stage, on top of Satyr IIc rocket (Nice name choice) Crew: 1 (Basil Konovalov) or should it be Vasil? I don't know... 6 hours till launch. Tests begin on every single component of the rocket and its payload. 3 hours till launch, Basil is woken up and escorted to another room. His vitals are checked in preperation for the launch. Various unnamed medical tests are performed on him. He is deemed fit for the mission. 1 hour until launch, he enters the CREM, which was sometimes jokingly referred to as the CRAMP by the CSP, in reference to its small size and being generally uncomfortable to sit in. The timer counts down to 30 minutes. Then 20 minutes, 10 minutes... 5 minutes.... 2 minutes. At T-30sec Mission Control begins counting down. "30... 20... 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, begin ignition... 3, 2, 1.. all engines running at full throttle. Umbilical towers detached, and.. liftoff!" Basil's 10 day long journey begins. The rest of the launch goes well. The boosters and core stage detach, the second stage continues the work of pushing Basil to space. At some point, the second stage cuts off its engine and coasts to apogee. At apogee, the second stage fires again, completing an orbit circularization burn. The second stage detaches from the CREM. As soon as the situation is confirmed to be nominal, Basil immediately requests permission to begin a spacewalk. Mission Control denies him permission to leave the capsule, as the spacewalk is scheduled a few hours into the mission... A couple of hours later, Basil asks Mission Control again to allow him to leave the capsule. They grant him permission. He puts on his helmet and seals his suit air-tight. He opens the hatch, and carefully climbs out, making sure not to poke any holes in his spacesuit. He is not free to roam anywhere he wants, he is still bound by a tether, but at least he doesn't have to spend time in a cramped capsule for the next few hours. He plays around with the science experiments, before getting bored after a couple dozen minutes. He decides to take a nap. He is rudely awoken an hour later by someone at Mission Control yelling at him to stop being lazy and get back inside the CREM. He climbs back inside, seals the hatch, and depressurizes his suit. He takes off his helmet. He asks Mission Control in an exaggerated Russian accent "Why those robots can go to Moon but I can't??" - He receives no response. "It would be great if someone else was here to keep me compan--" - He is temporarily cut off from talking to Mission Control for the next hour, except in cases of emergency. "This is an emergency! I feel lonely!" -He receives no response, but his message is relayed to the CSP. They consider designing a version of the CREM that can carry two crewmembers. If that fails, 3 should be enough for everyone. Basil spends the next 9 days of the mission bored. He finds a camera a few minutes after climbing back into the CREM and starts taking pictures of anything he finds remotely interesting. Mission Control catches on. "What are you taking pictures of? Stop wasting film! You should take that with you on your second spacewalk instead!" He impatiently waits the next several days until he can ask for permission to leave the capsule for a second time. Mission Control grants him permission again. He grabs his camera, climbs out of the capsule and looks around. He spots an island that looks pretty funny to him. He takes a picture of it. For the next few hours he takes more pictures. He takes pictures of Cyprus, Crete, Taiwan, and some other islands I don't remember the name of... At night, Basil takes a picture of Europe. He remarks that he can tell West and East Germany apart by their city lights. Nobody on the ground believes him. Mission Control tells him to get back inside. He complies. An hour after he gets back inside, they tell him to begin the de-orbit burn. All four retro-rockets fire simultaneously. After they run out of fuel, they are detached from the CREM. He secures the hatch with duct tape. Not long after, an uneventful re-entry ensues. The capsule's parachutes deploy, and he splashes down safely. He is recovered by a naval vessel close-by. A notable loss in bone density is recorded. Other than that, no ill effects have been observed yet from Basil's 10 day vacation in space.

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MR-AST / MR-1: Manned Research - Abort System Test. 5/22/63 (M/D/Y) A second prototype of the crew capsule has been devised for this mission. Fitted on top of the capsule is an apparatus designed to protect the astronauts inside the spacecraft from certain death during launch. The second Crewed Re-Entry Module prototype is codenamed Callisto. Crew: None. Spacecraft: CREM/Callisto. Mission: SUCCESS ! The second CREM prototype to make it off the blueprint lies on a test stand somewhere in Nevada. All of the equipment is tediously tested, re-tested, and even replaced for good measure, before the launch. ....even the batteries... At some point during the late night, it is decided that there are no more components to test. The Nevada farm space center requests permission from CSP to launch.... permission granted. The abort system fires, sending the capsule up into the sky. The meek solid-fuel canisters on the apparatus barely lasted two seconds. Shortly after the abort system ran out of fuel, it was detached from the capsule. The parachutes deploy successfully, and it lands in a field. During post-launch inspection of the spacecraft, one engineer began a monologue about the uselessness of the mission, asking why there was a test stand when it would be much better to place it on top of an actual rocket and fire the abort system while the rocket was flying in the air to determine whether or not the device would be able to fulfill its intended purpose. His monologue was interrupted by a high-level CSP executive who fired him on the spot.

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SAT-ORB 3: Funky Monkey Friday!! Send a chimpanzee to orbit, in a prototype crew capsule for the future crewed flights to be expected in the years 1964 and 1965. Other tech will also be tested for the upcoming crewed rocket program, such as retro-thrusters and abort systems. Mission: Success! Spacecraft: CREM/Mimas (Crewed Re-Entry Module, codename Mimas) on top of the Satyr-B rocket. Year 1963, Month 3, Day 29. The Satyr-B rocket lifts off the launch pad with no issues. MECO, SECO... everything looking good. The Satyr-B reaches a suborbital trajectory, and completes the orbit circularization burn flawlessly. The chimp named "Kitty No. II" spends about 6 hours in orbit, before the de-orbit procedure begins. Retro-thruster 1 fires. Then 2... 3... and 4. The retro-thrusters detach from the CREM. The de-orbit procedure is complete. The chimp splashes down in the water safely. The rescue team finds the chimp as they left it, in mostly good condition aside from Kitty No. II being tired, scared, hungry and dehydrated. With the success of this mission and the last mission, the CSP begins to consider skipping crewed suborbital flights entirely.

After the failure of the launch of the Icarus satellite which somehow didn't lead to nuclear war, the CSP planned to launch a second orbital satellite for scientific data gathering. After their final launch for 1962, they plan to begin a crewed suborbital program. There is no official name yet, although there is rumor going around the public that it will be named after one of Saturn or Jupiter's moons. The source or validity of these rumors is yet to be determined, with the CSP making no statement about it. I seem to be somewhat creatively bankrupt at this time of day Mission: Icarus-2, success! Year 1962, Month 12, Day 9. (62/12/9) Spacecraft: Icarus scientific satellite, on top of Satyr II rocket The launch goes as usual. The rocket manages to enter a suborbital trajectory, and after that successfully completes its orbit burn. It is in a 215km orbit. It runs all of the experiments available to it. The CSP monitors the data it transmits for the rest of the satellite's lifetime. The satellite will operate for about 3 years and 10 months until the batteries inside kick the bucket. It will continue to stay in its orbit for some time after that, before it burns up in Earth's atmosphere. More money is thrown at the CSP. A deadline for the first crewed suborbital rocket launch attempt is set at early 1964. Failing that, another deadline will be set at mid 1965.

We're in space? That early?? Ok... XR-2: Just to prove that it wasn't a fluke, the CSP attempts to send another rocket to suborbital trajectory. Mission : FAILURE ! 7/16/61 (Month/Day/Year, right?) The rocket lifts off the pad with no issues. Mostly.... It reaches altitudes 1km, 5km, 10km, 15km. Everything was going just as planned. ...for a whole 51 seconds. The rocket's connection begins to weaken somewhere around the beginning of the upper atmosphere before it is completely cut off from the Space Center. Due to the complete loss of communication with the spacecraft, no significant scientific data could be received. The rocket fails to complete most of the mission's objectives. It still reaches space. An investigation begins, and the CSP suspects that the cause of their abrupt loss of contact with XR-2 was 'a single engineer forgetting to recharge the batteries it used.' Search teams are still looking for XR-2s carcass as of 1 week after its launch.