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Yay! I need to go to bed but yes Dual stage to Orbit (DTSO) I wanted to do reusable rockets because that seems to be the most realistic solution with spacex actually showing a real ship that might possibly do what the space shuttle could not. Either way I got this little beauty done. called the DH3 since the DH2 was rather.... unsuccessful as a rocket. you can see the two hitchhiker containers as dummy loads which gives this 5 tons carrying capacity. However I will say that is it's absolute limit this was the first stage landing no safety features like parachutes so if I had burned even a second longer this thing would have been dead. I think I will put a small bit more fuel in the "kicker" mainsail rocket. However both lower and upper stage returned to Kerbin safely. I think I can call this little bit a success.

Thanks Crusha! so here we are The DH1 it's not much. This is first polished design which I tried to make as small and simple as possible. I'm Pulling a lot of Wisdom from the Rocket Company http://www.amazon.com/The-Rocket-Company-Library-Flight/dp/1563476967 It has actually almost no cargo capacity since it only has 5-600 delta V for the second stage by touch down. However it has a small and regular docking port and carries one crew member. The bottom half does take 7 tons with change to a height of 120km with breathing room which would make it good from probe launches. The whole thing is completely reusable, but with no extra safety features which has killed a few of my kerbals along the way in testing. I also need to create a infrastructure for refueling at KSC. actually in testing my DH2 I found that a low altitude "kicker" engine like the Rockomax series makes the whole DTSO (sounds cooler) more efficient by giving the high efficiency low thrust engine much less to push with a already high velocity to work off. So I might revise this little thing to carry more.

This is my first post and can't send a picture. I built a fully reusable two stage to orbit rocket. Just wondering if anyone else has. I will send a picture latter once I get home and figure out how to post a picture on the forum