DeinorKH

Hi all. I wanted to make the Val level mission with all in one mothership style spacecraft. Kraken tried its it's best to prevent me from succeeding but I won this time! (My sanity took a hit). Take off. Eight kerbals one mission. Getting to orbit took couple of tries. Spontaneous disintegration on launchpad after loading was quite a problem. Decoupling around orbit of Kerbin. Finally on orbit around Duna. All looks good. Now it's time to decouple a lander. Jeb is eager to get down on Duna. His target a edge of north polar cap. (He wanted to drive the rower but he draw the short straw.) Descent and landing. Rower does not have any engines to deorbit. Plan is to use mother ship to get a rower on course to landing site. Quickly decouple rower, turn around and accelerate to safe orbit. Bill and Bob will wait around Duna and enjoy the view. Val and Tim are free falling to a surface of Duna. Chutes deployed and rower is safely on ground. Mischievous humor of Jebs, Val and Tim have more than a hundred kilometers drive in front of them. Drive to the lander, quite a fun, couple of flips. Normal couple of days for Kerbals. Finally arriving to lander. Hop on and head to the mothership. Tim seams lucky to get on! Coupling was surprisingly uneventful. Kraken showing the tentacles. Around orbit the mothership broke. When changing directions ship did not want to turn. As if some force prevented that. After a while ship begun to oscillate cockpit most. Kerbals had to evacuate from cockpit. Luckily only part that broke or was cockpit. Kerbals had to pilot from landers cabin. (Behind the scenes come changes to safe file to turn off struts strengthening cockpit to ships body so only cockpit would broke off. For kerbals it must have looked like some miracle from above... ;-) ) Arriving to Kebin. After almost three years Kerbals finally gets to see home planet. Lander is going to land on its own but only with Valentina and Bob on board. The rest will take home newly designed SSTO. First to land is a lander. Decouple and descend to KSP Perfect landing almost spot on. 200 meters and Val would on landing pad. Still good job! In the meantime STO approaching the runway. Without a fuel extremely rear heavy and unstable. Better testing in future will be needed. Plane spotters around runway are ready to capture this historical moment. Crew of the longest space flight landing back home! Crew safe home. Kraken lost this time?!