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I went as soon as I had Skippers and Poodles. -> http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/56729-Mission-to-Duna-Career-Mode

Thanks! I still should tweak the return vehicle a bit, I only managed to climb to a 50x60km orbit above Duna, and had to lower the automatic transfer vehicle to rendezvouz the fueless capsule. Also, I need to place the parachutes in a way I don't fall nose-first

This was my first 'Mission to Duna' (with crew return) performed under the Career Mode, meaning that I hadn't Mainsails or Jumbo Tanks for a heavy lifter, nor NERVAS to launch a reasonable interplanetary ship-lander-return vehicle. So I designed a mission architecture that would rely on unmanned automatic ATV-like vehicles, and a medium lifter made with Skippers that would be used to launch both the 'Kerbal Automatic Transfer Vehicles' and the interplanetary ship-lander-return vehicle dubbed "Three Space Sailors". The first 'KATV' is launched. Then a second 'KATV' towards orbit. Both KATVs dock in LKO. Afterwards, the tandem launches to a Kerbin-Duna transfer orbit. The first KATV will be discarded to crash on Duna while the second one, full with precious fuel, will aerobrake and keep on Duna orbit for about a year and a half. Then our heroes (Jeb, Bill and Bob) launch on the TSS interplanetary ship and dock in LKO with a third 'special' KATV, which carries a science pack (I preferred to send the science pack with the KATV since the interplanetary ship was rather heavy). Then the KATV sends the TSS to a gravity slingshot with the Mun. All remaining fuel is transferred to the TSS and the KATV is sent to a Mun crash. A dramatic farewell to the Kerbin system while flying above the Munar surface. With Jeb on the controls (Bill and Bob couldn't tie him up outside of the capsule) the TSS goes for an encounter with Duna... and lo! They will be flying close to Ike on their arrival! Lots of science are done while flying close to Ike. 'Jeb, you nuts, you almost slingshot us out of Duna's gravity! Bill, correct course to Duna atmosphere! We're going quite fast!' The TSS starts to dip on Duna's atmosphere... ...and the engines are started to kill off as much velocity as possible to prevent "spontaneous aerial dissasembly" (SAD). Parachutes fully open, and the ship is in one piece! They arrived!!! Jeb is untied from his chair. Everyone gets to walk around Duna, pick up samples, make some EVA reports, check the science equipment, repack the parachutes, etc. Our heroes spend some weeks on the Dunar surface, sending EVA reports and science data, until the ship launches back to Duna orbit and rendevouz with the KATV on orbit for 2 years. The service module is discarded on Duna orbit to lessen weight and the KATV throttles back to Kerbin. We're back to Kerbin, carrying precious samples and science data! Oh, right, Jeb was on the controls again, and the ship goes science pack-first through the atmosphere. 'Jeb, I just hope that the science pack doesn't shatters on impact with the sea, or Wehner von Kerman will send you up again by yourself' The whole mission got me about 1200 science points. Hope you enjoy!

Hope they add stock balloons!

Building an interplanetary ship + lander on orbit

I want more science parts, like radiation measurement, altimeter radar for probes, etc (I guess that chemical related science parts will come with resources, eventually)

Aqui otro argentino

Hola vecino, desde el otro lado del charco (Buenos Aires) aqui ya he metido a unos cuantos amigos al juego, empece a principios de año y por ahora estoy tratando de llevar una sonda a Eeloo, jaja!

Landed my Mun Shuttle about 200 m from my Munar Base without Mechjeb or any other mods

Now I wonder if Randall Munroe would drop by the forums to say hi and show us some of his experience on KSP

I need to try this...

I hope we get extended IVA soon, as being able to do science from inside a lab module on a spacecraft, transfer to other modules, etc.

I did this once, in a retrograde orbit! Had to make a few tries to get the best option to slow down from 7 km/s to orbital speed, I think it was about 16km over the surface

So Jeb was russian after all :/

I kind of got used to dock only by looking at the pink mark on the navball.

Building a ship to Jool and forgetting to deploy the solar panels after the interplanetary burn, thus having a piece of junk on solar orbit instead of an automated station around Laythe XD

"Slight nudge? What's a slight nudge? Full rudder to starboard! OMG OMG TOO MUCH FULL RUDDER TO PORT"

Now I realize that my dad thinks like a kerbal when trying to fix his car.

This is the most kerbal way I've seen for a rover to drive around XD

This is an awesome video, too bad it was removed :/ Luckly I could fetch a copy from Vimeo

Ney, at least on their specs torque is the same as the probes.

Aw, I also wanted to see the Hitchhiker IVA, the cupola module still compensates for that tho

Why this always happens when I'm near finals?

Twin ship return!

I've been able to send your lander to the Mun, but I got a lil short of Delta-V for a return trip (nothing that some SRBs at the launch stage can't solve ), had to turn on the lander Poodle's to be able to reach orbit. Also, added some RCS tanks and ports because it was going to be a hell to control.