The Great Kerbal Space Race

[TinyPirate]

The Great Kerbal Space Race is a community challenge to play a campaign of Kerbal Space Program 1.0 together. Each week I will set a challenge and players compete to finish the challenge first (by the game's clock). I will be awarding points to those who compete, those who are stylish, and those who are fastest!

~~This Week's Challenge~~

.Get at least one Kerbal to the surface of the Mun and back in one piece.

To join the race simply prove you completed the challenge by emailing me (peter (at) tinypirate.com) screenshots with the game time (not the mission time) on them and your nickname and I'll add you to the leaderboard I'm going to keep running. If you're new to KSP, check out Scott Manley's excellent

- it should give you some pointers.

Feel free to come discuss the challenge here, share your ideas, successes and failure.

Edited May 1, 2015 by TinyPirate

[TinyPirate]

Placeholder for keeping the Leaderboard and other notes.

[Daliuxas200]

will you be playing with stock and no mods?

[TinyPirate]

Kerbal Alarm Clock, Engineer Redux and any visual or audio mods only.

Edited May 2, 2015 by TinyPirate

[PilotTroll]

wait on the mun? do you need to EVA your kerbal? because that would require a space complex upgrade.

[TinyPirate]

good question - let's go with "no" - there and back safely is enough!

[cramtenahc]

Did Science Alert allowed ? and mods who are ressource display or other things like that (Ksp Alternate Ressource Panel)

[_Augustus_]

I'm joining. Are mods allowed?

[cramtenahc]

Some Mods are allowed.

Kerbal Alarm Clock, Engineer Redux and any visual or audio mods only.

And i'm joigning too.

[Death Engineering]

Did I see you de-select allowing quicksave and revert on your vid? I can see why that would be a requirement, but KSP is a wee bit crashy.. unless that is part of the challenge (re-doing missions when say a kerb poofs into smoke or a kraken eats a lander).

[TinyPirate]

Yeah, disallowing do-overs, but it is an honesty system (I can't check, after all!). KSP is very stable for me, but if that isn't the case for you then work something out for yourself in the spirit of the challenge!

[EladDv]

i am willing to join too but how do we get money and tech and better stuff? what stops me from completing the tree and upgrades and going to mun with a huge rocket?

[cramtenahc]

I did It !!! (18 days 0 hours 50 minutes)

[TinyPirate]

ElaDV: you can do that, but in-game months or years will have passed. The challenge is to play career and do things promptly (at least, this challenge).

[kookoo_gr]

Landed on the Mun at 7 days 3h29m32sec, back to Kerbin at day 8 3h17m47

[TinyPirate]

Yay, thanks for the entry

[EladDv]

there and back under a week!

5th launch (one failed launch) first one was basic flea 2nd one was a lot of SRBs 3rd one was a failure 4th one was kerbin high and low orbit 5th one was mun landing.

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Edited May 6, 2015 by EladDv
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[TinyPirate]

Hey, good job! We are now into the last 8 hours of this challenge. It is gusting 130kmph here, which makes recording sound pretty hard, so I won't get a video on the challenge our tonight, but I will before the weekend (ideally, if we aren't blown off this hill).

[ticalc2014]

Sadly, Jeb just met his demise on the surface of Mun after a little over 2 days, in my attempts to rush this after getting home from work.

[ticalc2014]

I know that it won't count as I am past the deadline, but I wanted to share anyway. Got to the Mun nearly 5 hours into Day 2, after a few launchpad science missions, a couple of part tests, a launch to space, and finally an orbital mission. Unlocked just what I felt was needed in the tech tree. As you can see, my landing on the Mun was somewhat of a .... failure. Despite my best efforts, slowing to about 1m/s before landing, I managed to tip over my top heavy design. Unsure of what would ensue, I even attempted to record my efforts to take off, but sadly, the video decided it wanted to end up corrupted. I extended my landing legs, and tried rolling down the hill. After burning through about 1/3 of my remaining charge, I managed to get the nose far enough up in the air that I was able to throttle up the engine, and take off. Never again Jebidiah, never again! After all that, I nearly ran out of fuel on my return trip, getting the appropriate periapsis as to allow reentry.

While it won't count towards the first mission, I was hoping that by posting, I will at least establish a completion time for the first stage, to get a more accurate measure from here on out.

EDIT: I do have RemoteTech installed at the moment for my other saves, but if unmanned probes come up, will be sure to uninstall it.

[TinyPirate]

Thanks for all the awesome entries. It's still too damn windy here for me to record so if anyone wants to get an entry in a bit late you are welcome to do so. Very frustrating but it's blowing a gale and I can't record with all that background noise!

[EladDv]

can i start a new career to do it faster?

[TinyPirate]

That's the general idea - a new career just for this space race.

[EladDv]

That's the general idea - a new career just for this space race.

i might have been misunderstood. i did the challenge and i want to improve my run can i do that with a brand new save?

[TinyPirate]

If you want to have another go, feel free to start over and try again. I will try and film tonight, so you have about 12 hours to get your entry in. Weather has FINALLY eased off so I can record!