Early dual tourist contracts

[Oddible]

How do you deal with early 2 or 3 person tourist contacts before you've opened up large gear or hab module or a large pod? I've been using a second pod for the 1 person ones and 2 inline cockpits + a pod for the 3s but it is a tough stack to get aloft. And pretty bad to land too. I have to burn hard on the way down.

[Tex_NL]

Nowhere does it say you need to bring all tourists along at the same time. Simply take them one by one in multiple launches.

[Superfluous J]

I just stack Mk1 capsules. 2 capsules, 2 radial parachutes on one of them. If they want a pilot (Or is that the tourism mod?) then just stack 3 of them and use 3 radial chutes.

3 Mk1 capsules is about 2 tons, which is pretty small by KSP standards. If you can get a science vessel landed on Mun you can cart 3 guys up to LKO.

Here's a vid of my mission with a pretty simple (and low tech) ship that got 2 people into space and even brought a satellite to complete some of those contracts.

Edited May 25, 2015 by 5thHorseman

[monophonic]

You don't have to take them all on the same flight. Multiple launches really grows your losses on those early contracts though. Then again the rep is necessary for getting better contracts.