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Like many others i have a fondness for little craft. I'm fascinated by the liftingbody's the NASA developed (and flew in the past). A nice example in KSP is the WEKA craft by Lunniy Korabl. After watching a video from Billy Winn Jr. I wondered if it would be possible to create an even smaller and lighter craft than shown in the video. Hence this challenge for everyone: Build the lightest and smallest craft you can think of which can be used as a lifting body for the return journey from a stable orbit around Kerbin. There are three categories: Stock only, stock plus mods and "creative modding". Any craft with cfg modifications of parts (and/or "cheat"-parts) will be placed into the last category. To keep things simple, any addition to stock is considered a mod. If you need MechJeb or any other mod to fly your craft (even for just displaying data) the craft will fall into the stock plus mods category. The product of mass times length times width times height (as displayed by the Engineer's report in the VAB/SPH) will be used as indicator of size and mass but it is not the score of a craft! Rating a craft is a personal opinion as too many parameters are subjective, such as stability. To enter the challenge, submit a craftfile and a picture or a video of the craft. With this challenge you can show your creative abilities and give others new idea's on how they can build craft, so give it your best! Above a (recreation of a) craft from Billy Winn Jr.. It's fully stock, has a mass of 5.809 ton and it's dimensions are height 2.9 m, width 4.2 m and length 7.8 m. It's index is 552. The main disadvantage of this craft is that the cockpit is not heat resistent and usually blows up during reentry. Stock BWJr (552) LB2 (933) Stock plus mods Creative modding
