CatastrophicFailure

Speaking of which... how are you on water & such?

You live in hurricane country but don't have a gennie?

Interesting... I only see a single pair of fins on the bottom of the lower stage... or in other words... wings...

I spent ENTIRELY too much time with that title and din't want the forum to derp and lose it beofer I could post it (then spent another hour on the rest of it anyway. )

Year 7, Day 166... Hungry MundaneBoringYou spelled "excellent" wrong High SChool Reunion Stop messing with the title cards, Vlad! HAYLOTTE & JENCINE'S EXCELENT ADVENTURE Bogus JourneyCUT IT OUT!!! AwesomeTerrifying Dusty Hi mom! Seriously, I mean it! Go to White Castle Now that the crew has settled in and made reasonably sure nothing's about to spontaneously explode, it's time to get down to business! This mission's got wheels! a sick ride! CUT THAT OUT VLAD! They'll be just fine. I'm sure. Perfectly fine. Cut the feed, cut the feed!

Ooooo what mod pack for the bomber parts?

This! ZOMG, so much this! I used to live outside of Phoenix, where the weather is generally pretty boring and there's nary a proper sized tree to be found, yet all the power lines were underground. But up here near Seattle, where we have trees to spare and plenty of wind, all the lines are on poles that inevitably have trees fall on them every, well, fall. One would think in a place prone to hurricanes, someone at some point in the last hundred years would have figured this out! Ok /rant off. @Just Jim sounds like the worst it over at least, save your battery for important stuff. Now comes the hard part.

I like the simplicity of what you've penciled in. It looks like a similar overall concept to my current orbital ferry but far more elegant. ...and possibly less explosion-prone.

You, sir, make entirely too many cool things! I so need this!

Bigger question: do ya hafta go into work in the morning on no sleep?

I've never met the guy, I swear, I wasn't even in the county!

This. It wasn't the LES that caused the explosion, if anything it was the bad igniter. Or switching to internal power. Or the severed coolant lines. Or the fully-fueled third stage. One link in a chain of failures.

Which was whom?

The shuttles lack of ANY kind of abort procedure in the first two-ish minutes of flight directly resulted in the death of 7 people, yo. I'm not sure where you're getting that "3" number, Soyuz 10a (crew of 2) was directly saved by their LES. Soyuz 1 and 10 did not lose their crews during launch but landing. And Apollo 12 almost needed it after getting struck by lightning. Every crewed vehicle except the shuttle and Voskhod has had some sort of launch escape system And back to the earlier discussion, that big thick heat shield should add a lot of protection during a pad or other low-altitude abort. Once you get above 50k feet or so, an actual explosion (with its shock wave and debris flying past the capsule) is no longer a concern, there's not enough oxygen to support one. A catastrophic failure would result in a breakup instead, IF they don't simply shut the engines down, THEN fire the abort motors, which is the likely procedure.

Year 7, Day 166... CETI-OTHO III JENCINE - HAYLOTTE - LODVIN One of these days we'll get our naming conventions standardized. Busy busy busy! With half the engineering team just coming down from their excitement over finally receiving the last data from Thalia express, the other half is just getting ramped up for a return to Ceti... dropping off, not picking up, this time. It's a beautiful day when Ceti-Otho III takes to the sky! And Lodvin's gone back to mumbling about sand and "we're all gonna die." Maybe they should have left him in orbit. Is it just me or does the lander look like it's... looking at them...?

Which would require a complete redesign of the capsule, more delays, etc, etc. I don't think they've giving up on powered landing entirely, they're shelving it because of the regs involved in getting it past NASA. Presumably, they might look at it again in the future, like for non-NASA flights, once the rest of the D2 system is verified and operational. No, they've designed the whole thing from the get-go to tolerate a failed engine, even during an abort. For comparison, Boeing's Starliner only has 4 liquid-fueled abort motors, so if one of those fails, they're really boned. Just for comparison, if I'm mathing right (and I rarely am), 2 Superdracos @ 20% (minimum) throttle = 28.4 kN, and the Space Shuttle OMS engine (being used for Orion's maneuvering engine) is 26.7 kN.

It's been done. Just back in July, IIRC, I forget the sat names but there was a launch from Vandy like 24-48hrs after one at the Cape. We hope. @Ultimate Steve heh, my bad, I thought the Dracos were separate from the RCS thrusters.

Y'all sure about that? The thing's already got 8 engines, another four would be a lot of extra weight. Seems more reasonable to just use one pair of the SuperDrakes, maybe throttled down, for orbital meanuevers...

So just combine it with a cold fusion engine and problem solved.

What you're seeing in the vid is Kerbalism's science system along with AutomatedScienceSampler, which is exactly what it says on the tin. It'll automatically run all your experiments when you pass into a new biome/situation, which as you guessed is pretty indispensable with these fast flybys. If I ever get down to Icarus, I'd probably be in and out of low space long before I could run everything by hand.

Paging @Just Jim... 24-hour checkin... you good?

Me: "I should try making a planet some time." *gratuitous artsy stuff completely over my head* Me: "Nope."

Your work continues to boggle my mind. My mind is boggled. It's all very... boggley.

What @adsii1970 said. @Just Jim, bruh, please, take care of yourself. Hope for the best but assume the worst kinda thing.

I'm guessing that's a shot of the booster being prepped for display outside their headquarters. Probably has lots more up top.