DoctorDavid

So with the imminent release of KSP 0.24, I decided to finish off my career save with an ambitious mission. I'd sent manned missions to Duna and Eve so I decided why not send one to Jool? I also decided to land on Laythe as it looked like a very interesting moon to land on. I began by assembling a ship in 200km Kerbin orbit. The crew was as follows: Wilkin Kerman - mission commander Doodman Kerman - pilot Obbles Kerman - co-pilot Sherhat Kerman - chief scientist Bartny - assistant scientist. A course to Jool was plotted and the burn began. Here's the crew waving goodbye to Kerbin. After a wait of over a year in game time, the Jool Expedition Cruiser arrived at Jool. I set up a burn to bring the ship in for a 119km or thereabouts aerobrake. Here was my first good view of Jool itself. Getting a better view of Jool's weather systems here. The aerobrake in its violent glory! The ship was captured into Jool's SOI albeit at an awkward angle. 2001 references FTW! I now maneuvered the ship into a Laythe intercept and aerobrake. Finally, Wilkin Kerman transferred to the lander module and the little remaining fuel was used to go down to Laythe. Unfortunately, I misjudged the burn and the lander was headed straight to the ocean. So I tried to reload the quicksave, but I pressed F5 instead of F9. Woops. Amazingly, the lander survived. I will leave you with a picture of Wilkin Kerman having a nice refreshing swim.

Lift-off! Early separation!? Oops. BOOM

Yeah, if you look closely you'll see I already lost my LV-909 engine because of the landing legs' lack of shock absorbtion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3u971JrTCw So I decided to check on how my Mun lander was doing, and it responded by committing suicide. Mr Kerman will not be returning from the Mun in the near future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXHRdNgvql0 Hi there, I'm DoctorDavid. I do a gaming channel on YouTube called DoctorDavidGaming. Since I got Kerbal Space Program, I've decided to devote an ongoing series to it as I enjoy playing it so much. The series is currently at Part 7. In this part, I put a weather satellite and my first space station into orbit. I try to commentate in an interesting and thoughtful style, and I try to put a good amount of effort into editing them. Any helpful feedback is appreciated!

After sending a large Saturn V replica to the Mun, I decided to see what the smallest rocket would be that I could get there and return to Kerbin. Jebediah was onboard, and all went well until the transfer. I used more fuel than was necessary on that stage, which would lead to problems later. I got in orbit around the Mun, and landed. Jebediah planted his flag, and I did some science 'experiments' using the stock science appliances. At this point, I had to quit KSP to do other things. Next time on KSP, and I found out why I shouldn't have landed on a hillside. The lander was bouncing around uncontrollably. Worse still, one of the landing legs broke off, which meant that I had no choice but to do my launch immediately. I got in a Munar orbit, and then found I had 10 units of fuel left; not quite enough to get on a return trajectory. Now I had to launch a rescue mission to save Jebediah. Bill and Bob were selected to rescue him, and this time I decided not to take any chances with the fuel. This time, I used my Saturn V replica, sans the lander module and with a spare seat in the command module. This mission was more uneventful, and after I rendezvoused with Jeb, I had a large surplus of fuel (my rescue mission's transfer stage not being used up). This was probably the first time that the transfer stage was used for both transfers, and the rocket very quickly was returned to Kerbin. I feel a bit sorry for Jebediah though. After being trapped in Munar orbit for a couple of hours, he might have been expecting a warm welcome from his colleagues. Instead of that, he got Bill staring at him in disbelief and Bob screaming so much that the oxygen was in danger of running out.

Very good work on recreating the launches! I'll be interested to see how you recreate the Apollo launches. Out of interest, will you be touching on the Soviet Moonshot? I know it never flew to the Moon, but I didn't know about whether it had test flights or not.