Meltro

I finished my science tree. After my Mun landing and return, it seemed that an unmanned Jool mission was the next step. I needed approximately 4000 science to finish the tree, and it seemed that a manned Duna mission would be required to finish things off. I launched this guy: with hopes of a Jool flyby with a terminal orbit around one of the moons. What I didn't expect was the veritable science bonanza that appeared once I entered Jool SOI: That's Jool, Laythe, Tylo, and Vall encounters all lined up. 6 m/s delta V from RCS was all it took, I couldn't believe my luck. I was just a bit short of finishing the tree, so I chose to finish the mission with a terminal descent into Jool itself: I netted over 5000 science from this mission, RIP InterGalactor 1

SSTO. 0.22 Allowed me the luxury of controlled powered flight and the ability to land for once but my winged creations remain in the atmosphere.

This for ease. Heck, it might be as simple as sticking one single mainsail on the end of the station. The larger problem that I see is that stack will start to fall apart. You'll need to attach struts to the rocko-64 cause those batteries, RCS tanks, and hitchhiker pods are all weak attachment points. Alternatively, those docking ports are promising attachment points in and of themselves. You might consider simply duplicating the whole shebang (alt-click) and adding a copy at each docking port, add a strut or two, remove the ends of it so you just have the rocko-64, and throwing some engines on those external tanks. Then asparagus stage the lot.

picture of the station in question?

Featuring my creations over the last week, I present: A Study of Light and Shadow

It's been a bit, so I decided to jump back in and do something I'd never done before So I went to Eve ...then decided to try some flying around... ...figured now was as good a time as any for my first manned Mun mission... ...then flew around some more. That last picture is after four hours of successful airborne science, followed by a LANDING! <3 these new aerodynamics and computer controls!

The Mark I It isn't good to get to attached to something that will obviously be shortlived...

I'm tempted to start using large diameter tanks but...I just can't bring myself to. I'm not going for some massive lander, but at least a little crew capacity would be nice. I started from scratch on my munar launch platform but I'm thinking perhaps I'll be reusing my probe configuration (above). Also been thinking of Kerbin-Orbit rendevous and a dual lift/fueling setup

Just managed docking ports myself. I can probably manage a non-lunar-rendezvous landing but I'm too giddy with excitement...I haven't done a landing that didn't involve rocko-64s, atomic engines, and massively over-engineered craft in forever.

I learned how to build big with small parts

Science A thing of beauty

Almost up to first staging

0 21 2060 I was surprised by the screenshot number, figured a few hundred

Challenge Accepted

Final iteration of my trusty tug Looks nice too