GoldForest

I get bouncing with all my Apollo.

Might just be you. I have KJR and none of that happens. Might want to make sure KJR is updated (it was updated recently). Idk if KJR is causing it for you, but doesn't hurt to update.

Full Album: Imgur: The magic of the Internet Hmmm, think I forgot something... oh well, sure it wasn't important. Oh? The launch vehicle and launch pics? Nope. Purposely left those out. Kind of... off topic. If you want them, they are in the full album. But be warned! It's a cursed launch vehicle, at least for this payload.

Probably the fact that Columbia didn't get a happy ending. I thought about bringing her home in the story, but I felt like it would be a long shot. That and I didn't want to risk any crew during landing. (I'm bad and landing the shuttle. I usually end up in the water or in buck funk no where (Aka, in the mountains or no where close to a runway). I also have a bad habit of not managing my speed)

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Why the unsurety?

I just checked and I don't have this problem. I have no idea what could cause that other than a problem with Textures Unlimited.

That was really fast, wow. I wasn't expecting this for another month at least. You must have gotten a bit of free time huh?

Oh right, you messed up the sizing and didn't change it due to how far along you were right? Was it just S-IVB that you messed up the size on or was it S-IC and S-II as well, I'm curious?

2 and 3) You're using the wrong engine mount. And it's not too big, the S-IVB is 4.375 meters. See my editted post above.

1) The Apollo Engine plate has two nodes, make sure you're attaching to the right one. (Attaching the engine will help as the orange SPS plate should be on the outside and not buried inside the plate. 2) You're using the wrong engine mount. You want the S-IVB not the S-IV. (See image) 3) See 2.

Mars/Duna Lab

Full Album: Imgur: The magic of the Internet Following the disaster that unfolded on January 16th, 2003, the Apollos for Artemis 8 and 9 were pulled from the Artemis program and were retasked with rescue operations for STS-107 Columbia. Artemis 8A was rolled back into the VAB, the boosters were quickly detached, the cargo fairing and Artemis lander were removed, allowing Apollo and the SLA adapter to be installed instead. To save time, one of the boosters for Artemis 8A was repurposed as the core stage for the Saturn MB M02 that would launch Columbia Rescue 2, or CR2 for short. CR1 and CR2 were finished within a week of each other, the engineers working 24/7 to finish the rockets that would save the 7 stranded astronauts who were already stretching the limit of what the shuttle could handle. Finally, on February 6th, 2003, CR1 and CR2 rolled out to the pad together. The two rockets and towers were set down as quickly as possible and fueling commenced as soon as the lines were installed. One astronaut boarded each Apollo. They had trained to work Apollo all alone, since the seats would be needed for Columbia. It was considered that launching a third rocket would allow for two people in each Apollo, to lighten the load for the one-man teams, but a third rocket was ruled out, as they were limited on resources to launch a third rocket. There were only two towers and two crawlers after all, one would have to be rolled back, the rocket assembled, checked, double checked, then rolled out to the launch pad. The resource drain wasn't worth it, and the two Apollos going up would be waiting around for days, possibly past the mission duration. CR1 roared to life and launched off the pad. CR2 followed five minutes later. This had never been done before, but the NASA engineers came up with a flight profile that would result in the two rockets maintaining separation. CR2 would take a one-to-three-degree shallower pitch maneuver than CR1. This would ensure that CR1's booster would fall below CR2, and not have CR2 run into CR1's booster. The launch went off without a hitch, both CRs reaching 120km to ensure they would catch up to Columbia as soon as possible. Once rendezvous had been achieved, the two Apollo's docked with each other and the conjoined crafts were maneuvered to within 10 meters of Columbia's cargo bay, one of the Apollo's hatches lining up with the airlock of Columbia to make the spacewalk as short as possible for the crew. It took hours as the only shuttle 2 EVA suits had to be flown back to Columbia for crew use each time. Finally, all 7 crew members were aboard the two Apollos. CR1 and 2 backed away slowly from Columbia, swinging around to get a picture of the damaged heat shield on the leading edge of the wing. The shuttle was remote commanded to close the cargo doors to give a better look in the sunlight. The crews stared in shock and horror at the size, some of them wondering how the wing wasn't ripped off during ascent, thankful it held though. After examining the hole for a few minutes, the two pods drifted away before undocking with each other, starting the journey home and arriving safely. Rescue plans for Columbia were proposed and denied, none of them could rescue the shuttle, the damage to the wing too great to attempt an EVA repair. Even if the wing had been repaired, there was no way to guarantee a safe reentry for the pilots who would have to ride the shuttle home in order to land it. The Space Shuttle could be remotely/autonomously piloted, but not remotely/autonomously landed, unlike the Buran fleet. So, with just a few hours of battery life left, Columbia was ordered to burn retrograde and put itself into a back on orientation to the atmosphere. Columbia reentered and burned up on February 10th, 2003, a memorial held a few days later in the shuttles honor.

I meant intermediate S-II arm (the one above the interstage), sorry. I had no room for the aft one.

I thought about doing that, but found I like the drop down umbilical better. And I do use swing arms for the upper stages only, but I guess I need to omit the S-II aft one, or stage it before vehicle release, is what I did the second time.

Ah, didn't see those. Sorry. Looks like the 100kW one uses 4 solar panels instead of 2. Now do it will MOL.

The entire ISS Truss Segment launched in one go on board the Saturn MLV-V-23(L). The 100kW solar array is a different design altogether from the 25kW design. It had two separate designs, both made to be extremely compact.

I wonder what Skylab could do/be built out to if it had the 100KW solar array: 19790009716.pdf (nasa.gov) 19840022460.pdf (nasa.gov)

Less radioactive engines will definitely be needed for rendezvousing. I forgot about the radiation cone on engines. I wonder how big those comes will be though. Like could you use the Daedalus shield on craft 1 to protect you from the thrust from craft 2? If so, hydrogen engines wouldn't be needed, if you're a madman. Of course, that's if the docking ports even allow for two gigacrafts to be docked at all. Will the docking ports be weight restricted? Like if 120 ton craft B trying to connect to Craft A's 100 ton rated docking port, that the docking port won't engage at all.

Full Album: Imgur: The magic of the Internet Laggy and a bit wobbly, but it launched fine... the second time. Yeah... first time didn't go so well. For those wondering how the MS-IC-1 is fueled, same way as the SSET head canonically, a pass-through pipe going through the booster closest to the tower into the core stage. You can see I added an extra pipe on the fore and interstage sections of the booster to help with fueling. Bonus image from the first launch: The swing arm above the booster didn't get out of the way in time, got hit and destroyed. This caused the tower to start oscillating, causing the booster to continue to hit swing arms. Finally, it made contact with the tower and the two got into a power struggle. The tower won as you can see in the image. @AlphaMensae Might want to remove the Jello from your towers in the next update. And teaser image, not for space stations, but for a rescue mission coming up. And yes, both of these Apollos are on rescue duty. Who are they rescuing? You'll have to wait and see. Feel free to guess, but I won't be giving any hints.

@Zorg Do you know if the "free flyer" is the ESA Columbus Free Flyer station that became the ISS Columbus module?

The one with the model switching is the right one.

I've been wondering about this for a few days. How well will KSP 2 deal with docking supersized ships such as two Daedalus ships docking together, kind of like in the movie Sunshine where Icarus II docked with Icarus I. I'd like to hear your thoughts on this subject.

If you go to their profile, you'll see they haven't been here in quite a while. You can essentially call this mod 'dead' since there's no active development. The mod still works in 1.12.3 though, just need to make sure to update your dependencies. The only way this will get updated now is if Pak comes back or if someone adopts it, though I don't think anyone can adopt it due to its license. If you're looking for shuttle mods:

See you in another year.