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It is called "JS Ishimura V-H". One of my friends started to build battleships and I eventually started to copy aspects of his design and improve it. I don't know exactly what ÃŽâ€V this beast has but it should be enough to visit at least Jool and come back savely.

I have suggestion for a further challange: If you like the idea, I can create a scenario: Build a rover with a plane on top. With the rover, drive as near as possible to the south pole. Then: Launch your plane from the rover. This can either happen with the rover givng the initial speed to make the plane lift off, or you can build a VTOL. Fly to a specific point at the south pole and return to KSC. I may add some constraints such as maximal fuel or maximal parts for the plane. Cheers

For large interplanetary vessles, you should try in-orbit assembly. With the new big docking ports you just have to build a propulsion+command module with a sufficient ammount of fuel and dock a standard lander to it. Don't forget to use the atomic rocket engines for they have a very high specific impuls. If you are nit familiar with how docking works, check out some docking tutorials on youtube. Cheers

We are all stardust

Wow, you must be a waaay better pilot than I am. I barley made it to Eve and getting back from there proved to be impossible for me.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]34446[/ATTACH] Now there are 4 Landers on the moon. Only one of them has been moved closer after landing, the other ones landed where they can be seen on the picutre

Oh wow, this thing is huge! Are there no issues with the length of the first couple of stages? It looks kind of wobbly

The trick here is to build your ship in the fassion that the external boosters just miss the yellow thingy that extends from the launch pad.

Hi there, I would like to present my new, upgraded version of the Tatarus II ICOL: the Tartarus III, now with correct spelling and the ability to land on (most) celestial bodies in the system. It is outfitted with four landing parachutes for the descent to other planets than Kerbin and with luxury bonuses like RCS and AdvSAS. because its predecessor was designed to take pictures from inside the cockpit once in orbit around another planet, this version also comes with a cockpit with high visibility. It is designed for one man landings only and (in the hands of the right pilot) may be able to land on several celestial bodies with only one launch! Have some pictures: For pictures in orbit around Duna, see the thread about the old version Note: Please read the launch instructions before you actually launch [ATTACH]33637[/ATTACH][ATTACH]33638[/ATTACH] Test by HOC:

Oi, thank you. My head was in the clouds when I wrote this -.-

I guess that I want to build landers right so my Kerbonauts can return to their home and that I'm a little bit scared that if I make it a lander I screw things up and they never get home again. Feel free to modify the design by yourself. Maybe I'll redesign the craft today.

Yeah I hate leaving Kerbonauts at the surface too. Thats why it is an circumfly ship

I proudly present the first interplanetary single-crewed planet obeservatory. Due to its unique glass cockpit, the Kerbonaut never will miss interesting features on the planets surface. It is guaranteed* that this craft will bring your Kerbonaut to the inner planets of our solar system and maybe even to Jool. Keep in mind that this vehicle is not build to land on any celestial bodies than Kerbin (though our PM Agent thought it would look cool if we would show you a picture of how you are not intended to use our product) The ship has enough power though to upgrade it into a lander. The only reason I did not return to Kerbin and went for a landing was that I screwed up my orbtial maneuvers to get to Duna in the first place. *WARNING: this guarantee only holds if you are a skilled pilot Tell me what you think about this beast in the comments and feel free to modiefy the craft and make it into a lander or something. Just make sure to post your results in this thread [ATTACH]33260[/ATTACH]

Interesting. Could you uploade some screenshots of the craft so the people that don't want to downlaod the .craft file can give their evaluation too?

Actually, it was one spacecraft and I just sepperated the Soyuz from the Station. Sorry for the order of the images to imply that the Soyuz docked. And thanks for the Spoiler-code

Hi there, The first space stations to orbit our planet were the so called Almaz or Salyut Space Stations launched by the Russians between 1971 and 1986. By combining the Kosmos Mod and the Noyuz Mod, I tired to recreat an Almaz Space Station to orbit Kerbin. See the results below Let me know whatz you think about it in the comments Also: how to make spoiler posts? These images are huge!

Actually, most of the rocket parts are recovered by rocket part hunters. They then sell the metals to chinese businessmen that then recicle them for other parts. One of the tanks in the first stage is shaped like a cooking pot. It is tradition under the scrap hunters to cut out the tank first and then make their first meal after the beginning of the cutting of the rocket stage in this tank. Interestingly they bring a cooking top from a regular pot and it fits perfectly on the tank.

I'd say both. Sometimes I want to have a nice looking spacecraft that also fullfils its duties and other times I just want to get into orbit for example if I want to try rendevous and docking with a target satellite

Here is the Link to the pack. I haven't tried the lander pack yet, but the Angara pack and the Space Station Pack are really mfun to use

There is actually a nice documentary about it called "Space Tourists" it caputers the fascination for space and manned space flight very well and gives a detailed view on the (post) soviet space programs.

Is there a mod for original Soyuz parts? I only use the Kosmos Almaz, TKS and Mir parts so far.

I just did a circumluna flyby with a modified version of the TKS. You can find some pics below. I really like the Kosmos mod especially the space station parts. I wonder how Excalibur Almaz will do its deep space exploartion with the restored Almaz

I use the Kosmos mod and the Angara rocket mod.