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Hmmm... Even without FAR, I can get going pretty fast, and accelerate quite quickly. Also, anything I make seems to have negative buoyancy and sinks at almost terminal velocity. Maybe my game is just broken?

I think that the cockpit has negative buoyancy, I don't know how it would work otherwise.

Here's my atempt: Not sure if exploding at the bottom counts, but the last one made it partially intact at 919 m.

Looks like a tank burst, there was a big plume of a gas coming out the side, then maybe the Range Safety Officer blew it up?

I think that was it going past mach 1, Frozen_Heart

We are Go for the countdown!

Weather looks clear so far

Step 3: Apollo Applications Program +30 points, now at 120 Edit: After going back, I found out that the game saved when the base was landed properly, and I was able to jettison the sky crane without any problems. Yay! Lunar Space Station is up! Lunar Base is crewed, +20, now at 140 Will continue adding to base

Here's my first attempt: 90 points Got more on the way soon!

No, because I don't know what mass the payload would be. As for the second statement, do you mean it will have fuel for the stage, or what?

Can you give us the rough outline? Although the challenge might have different objectives, it's still a good starting place - - - Updated - - - So, I did some quick math and came out with a Dv of 2790m/s for a Falcon 9 upper stage re-fitted with a NERVA with an isp of 850 seconds, the dry mass being 4,000kg and wet being 106,600kg. I couldn't find stats on the Falcon Heavy, I think it's still in development. Sources : Falcon 9 and NERVA

Hey guys, maybe we could try and do the challenge? It probably would be a good exercise in designing and planning a mission. Objectives of the Challenge: How does humanity facilitate, enable, and incentivize the establishment of a second home on Mars? How do we become and maintain Earth independence while living away from Earth? How do we shape NASA’s human exploration program to minimize what we must bring with us and maximize the value and utility of what we bring, and augment it with what is already there? What specific capabilities and operations need to be developed, and how can specific natural resources on Mars be used to achieve true Earth independence? What should be put in place so that this initial foothold can thrive, instead of just surviving? How do can we make sure that the sustainable systems/capabilities that we choose to implement will really provide the best holistic approach to Earth independence? What do you need to bring with you? What will be established once you get there? How does it operate and how can it be tested now? Why is it sustainable? Is there recycle, reuse? How long will it last? How is it intertwined with other systems/capabilities? How will it be maintained?

So is it still on the barge, or did it fall into the ocean?

Too bad... Always next time thought

Solar Panel Deployment

My first Duna landing!

My Bio teacher was awesome enough to let us watch the launch in class on the projector for the last few minutes, it was really awesome!

It totally was Micheal Collins, duh. EDIT: *Sarcasm*

I don't think you would need sentient AI's to do jobs, just non-sentient AI's that can do it. Anyway, we don't even know if you could make a sentient AI anyway.

Hey there! I'm just starting to attempt this challenge, and I will post the results soon.

Yeah, I was thinking the main jobs would be robot oversight, robot repair, and maybe robot construction/coding.

So, I just recently watched this video: . It's about how there will be a change from people doing jobs, to machines doing those jobs. When this eventually happens, what do you guys think will happen?

Could you of gotten out and pushed? Or is the monoprop you removed the eva fuel? Anyway, nice job. The farthest I got was landing the Kerbal X on the Mun.

Ahh, so Phase I will be like a mini forum? Nice!

Well, I mean were we can discuss all the parts and mission parameters in detail, without all the clutter of this thread.