Goodn_plenty

Floor 4499: A disembodied head sits in an empty room, he asks you to pick him up and give him to his body which is on floor 4999.

Of all the mission reports I have read here, this one is no doubt the best, thank you for this story

Are there any improvements I could make for the future?

The First ICBMs Once the World's other two superpowers Copernia and Sunda got their hands on the plans for Kiwet's Icarus V rocket, they quickly founded their own ICBM programs. Throughout the next 6 years, Sunda slowly progressed towards a functional ICBM. Their first rockets were almost directly copies of the Icarus V, but as the rockets got bigger and better, their design drifted from the Icarus V, they achieved their first sucess in 1951, when they developed the C-5 ICBM. The C-5, weighing about 250 t, was designed to deliver a 5t nuclear warhead to Copernia from the edges of Sunda's territory. With it's range being around 7000 km, it became the first ICBM. However, the ICBM had limitations, as its other enemy, Kiwet was out of reach of the C-5. For this reason an even bigger series of rockets, the D-series, started development in late 1951. ~~~ The first D-series rocket was the D1, weighing 340t and could deliver a payload of ~6t to a location on the other side of the Earth. The first flight-ready one was delivered to launchpad in Wenchang on February 7, 1953. First Test of the D-1 Due to the damage done to the Wenchang Launch Facility by the D-1's first flight test, it would not be until May that they next D-1 could be launched from there. Second Test of the D-1 After the success of the second D-1 test, the go-ahead is given for production. In the following year, over a hundred would be made. ~~~ The leader of Sunda's space program, Wernon, had even bigger plans for the D-1 rocket, he was very enthusiastic about the concept of space travel, it was what had led him into the field of rocketry in the first place. He proposed the Mun Program, which aimed to put artificial moons(satellites) in low earth orbit. Despite his adamance, it would not be until 1953, after many years in limbo, that his program would finally be given the go-ahead after the second D-1 Test. Immediantly work started on converting the D-1s given into launch vehicles for the Mun Program, with the first mission, Mun-2, planned to launch before 1955.

Those are actually very great names! I will use these, thank you very much, the only modification I might make it shortening Kiwetenwi.

Thank you ! I can see how the names of the nations leave room for improvement, I have been thinking of changing the names but any names I could come up with aren't good enough to be worth changing the names. If you can come up with better ones I'd be happy to hear them

Yes, but different countries and Kerbals not humans

I have seen mission reports here that detail the histories of space programs, and so I have been inspired by them to put my own scenario to paper, or keyboard I guess... introducing... The History of a Three-Way Space Race ~~~The Beginning~~~ This Earth in 1940 is split between 3 Superpowers; Kiwet, Copernia, and Sunda. The world has entered a "cold war," driven by the recent invention of Nuclear Weapons, which if used in a full-scale war would cause untold damage. In 1942, Kiwet started a secret program to develop rocket technology that could enable the delivery of nuclear bombs to locations halfway around the world faster than any other method. This program to develop ICBMs would reach a big milestone in 1945 with the maiden flight of the Icarus V rocket. The Icarus V sits on the pad in White Sands awaiting launch Icarus V launchs, the launch clamps unclamp The Icarus V crosses the Karman Line, becoming the first artificial object to enter space The flight of the Icarus V would last less than an hour, ending with it re-entering the atmosphere burning and crashing about 100 km downrange, However, Kiwet's ICBM program isn't as secret as they would hope, as it is infiltrated by spies from both Copernia and Sunda, through espionage, the plans for the Icarus V and other rockets make it way to the other Superpowers, sparking their own rocket programs, and seeding the space race. After many years, the first succesful ICBM would be assembled onto the launch pad in 1951