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    I thought they would be better due to low specific impulse loss at low altitudes.
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    I like the Mun due to its relatively easy accessibility from Kerbin (you don't have to wait many days for a transfer window).
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    Is it possible to reach solar escape velocity by doing a slingshot fly-by of Jool?
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    [edit: reuploaded to imgur] Mission 27 Payload: Wish-2 Description: Similar design to the Dawn-1 lander. Mass at launch: 0.388 t (with heat shield); 0.293 t (without heat shield) Launch Vehicle: Onion Stick Mk. 04 First stage: C7 Toroidal Aerospike Rocket Second stage: JKJSPC LV-909 liquid engine (w/ extended tank) Mission objective: Land on Duna. A first-time experimental use of the aerospike engines: About 60 days later: Parachute has been deployed: Fully deployed: Heat shield has been jettisoned: Touchdown on the surface of Duna: (Landing location) Mission successful
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    I would consider 6 asparagus cores surrounding the main core "aesthetically pleasing".
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    I second that statement. I also want the ability to add long turquoise pigtails to my Kerbal.
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    Normal KASDA flag: Mun landing: Minmus landing:
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    [edit: reuploaded to imgur] Mission 26 Payload: Kujita-7 (Mk. 02) Launch Vehicle: Onion Stick Mk. 03a-5C (5-core) Mission goal: Land on Minmus and return safely to Kerbin. Pilot: Jebediah Kerman Approaching Minmus: Initial orbit around Minmus: [image not found] Descending: Climbing down the ladder: Planted flag: Jumping 10 meters into the vacuum: Leaving Minmus: Flag location: Heading back home with about 900 m/s of delta-v (due to the lower d-v requirements for landing/taking off from Minmus compared to the Mun). I didn't want to test the 3-core Onion Stick and find out I didn't have enough fuel. (Half-way between Minmus and the Mun) (Re-entry) (Landing location) Mission successful
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    [edit: reuploaded to imgur] Mission 25 Payload: Kujita-6 (Mk. 02) Description: A version of the Kujita capsule designed for moon landings. (with the SAS replacing the ASAS) Mass at launch: 4.030 t Launch Vehicle: Onion Stick Mk. 03a-5C (5-core) Mission goal: Land on the Mun and return safely to Kerbin. Pilot: Jebediah Kerman The OS-03a-5C was the heaviest variant of the Onion Stick launch vehicle. The first pair of boosters cross-fed to the second. (In LKO before Trans-Munar Injection) (Leaving Kerbin) (Jeb performing the orbital insertion burn) (Kujita-6 into a low Munar orbit) Prior to de-orbiting: Powered descent: Kujita-6 has landed on the Munar surface. [image not found] Jeb climbing down the ladder: The flag has been planted on the Mun. Jumping in the low gravity: Launching from the surface: On its way back home: What was left behind: (Approaching Kerbin) (Capsule separation) (Re-entry) Jeb landed on the southwestern rim of Kerbin's crater. Mission successful
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    And what would that be?
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    Using hyperedit isn't much of an achievement.
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    But the first planet that a robotic probe landed on was Venus, so I picked Eve.
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    This was originally going to be mission 22, but as I was going to launch, Protractor told me that there was a launch window for Duna (the theta value was almost 0 degrees). Mission 24 Payload: Dawn-1 Description: A spacecraft equipped with a heat shield and a parachute in order to make a soft landing on Eve. Mass at launch: 0.373 t Launch Vehicle: Onion Stick Mk. 03a Mission goal: Land on Eve. (Trans-Eve injection) (Post-burn trajectory (image not found)) (After first course correction) After the encounter, another course correction was performed to lower the Eve periapsis to 60 kilometers. The second stage was jettisoned prior to atmospheric entry. Solar panels were retracted prior to the aerocapture. Dawn-1 would go once more around the planet before the actual landing. Final atmospheric entry with panels retracted and parachute deployed: (Parachute fully deployed) Landed on the surface of Eve: (Landing site) Mission successful
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    You should know about the beings responsible for these scenarios.
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    1864: Tutankhamen, the emperor of Saudi Arabia, leads an epic battle against Thomas Jefferson, the king of Canada, in the Amazon Rainforest. Emperor Tut commands his horde of elephants while Jefferson uses an army of tigers. The year-long battle eventually ends in a draw.
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    We've got a KSP master over here!
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    [edit: reuploaded to imgur] Again, this is because of Kerbal Engineer. Mission 23 Payload: Kujita-5 (Mk. 01a) Launch Vehicle: Onion Stick Mk. 03a-3C (3-core) Mission goal: Establish an orbit around the Mun then safely return back to Kerbin. Pilot: Jebediah Kerman 3-core, as in three OS-03 first stages. Going from Kerbin to the Mun: Before the insertion burn: In Munar orbit: Jeb spent one full orbit around the Mun before beginning the trip back home. Leaving the Mun: Re-entry: Landing site: Mission successful
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    1975: French, British, and American astronauts land on Europa and establish a base there.
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    [edit: reuploaded to imgur] Mission 22 Payload: Wish-1 Description: Small Duna orbiter equipped with dish and wire antennae. Mass at launch: 0.299 t Launch Vehicle: Onion Stick Mk. 02 Mission goal: Establish an orbit around Duna. The spacecraft was launched into a low parking orbit as usual (panels and antennae were deployed while it was still suborbital), then about half-an-hour later, the second stage began the Trans-Duna Injection burn. This is the post-burn trajectory: After leaving Kerbin SOI: Several weeks into the mission, the spacecraft performed another course correction burn: Wish-1 has been captured by Duna's gravity well. About to cross periapsis: The upper stage began to burn its last drops of fuel. Then, Wish-1 separated to complete the insertion until it ran out of fuel. The final orbit around Duna: KASDA's first interplanetary mission (which had lasted almost 57 days) was complete. Mission successful
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    [edit: reuploaded to imgur] Mission 21 Payload: Moon Princess 6 Launch Vehicle: Onion Stick Mk. 03a-2L Mission goal: Land on Minmus and deploy the rover. A few course corrections had to be performed, the first of which made a Mun encounter that would take place in a year (and it kept flickering on and off, too). After the final course correction: Capture into Minmus's orbit: The initial descent burn: Falling towards the surface: Landed (antenna opened shortly afterward): The rover traversing the frozen lake: Mission successful (yet another invisible bump caused all but one solar panel to break)
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    [edit: reuploaded to imgur] Mission 20 Payload: Moon Princess 5 Launch Vehicle: Onion Stick Mk. 03a-2L (with fins for added control) Mission goal: Land on Minmus and deploy the rover. First use of fins (with control surfaces) After launch and Minmus injection, a correction burn was supposed to take place at the Mun's orbit. But the probe forgot to deploy the solar panels (basically I was too focused on the transfer burn)! And the panels on the rover faced away from the sun, so the spacecraft was essentially dead. [image not found] Sailing past Minmus with no way of burning retrograde. Mission failed
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    I remember Galaxiki from several years ago. It was weird that you could purchase stars for people to edit them. This system reminds me of cheap bootleg knockoff products.
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    Which is why my space program (KASDA) started off by launching a small satellite, and had no intended suborbital manned flights.
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    [edit: reuploaded to imgur] Thanks for the compliments! Mission 19 Payload: Moon Princess 4 Description: A moon lander which carries a small, lightweight rover. Mass at launch: 1.336 t (rover + lander); 0.311 t (rover only) Launch Vehicle: Onion Stick Mk. 03-2L Boosters: JKJSPC LV-T30 liquid engines (FL-T400 tank) First stage: JKJSPC LV-T30 liquid engine Second stage: JKJSPC LV-909 liquid engine (w/ extended tank) Mission goal: Land on the Mun and deploy the rover. The first use of liquid rocket boosters on a KASDA launcher: After trans-Munar injection: MP-4 separated from the upper stage after orbital insertion: De-orbit burn; landing struts Landed! The rover has separated from the landing vehicle and is now driving on the surface. Mission successful A closer look at the rover: (One thing that annoys me is that my rover keeps hitting invisible bumps on the ground that send me flipping into the air. All but two of the solar panels are broken now.)
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