PUPs & DAWGS, an Update PIC HEAVY

[SlowThought]

Lassie, Come Home, Episode... well, I've lost count.

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I forswear the upgrade (from 0.25, even) until all Kerbals come home.

Walter: This is Walter Kronkite (authentic K, love it), live from KASA control. We left Tomman and Doobald here, finally united on Eve, patiently awaiting the development of a vehicle that might get them to low Eve orbit, and within reach of the rescue vessel Redemption. Unfortunately, reality (work? family? really?) and Kerbal engineering skill has made the wait longer than expected. Docktor von Kermann, why has it taken so long?

Wernher: Vell, Valter, spaze iz an eazy ting nicht. Ve haf many vehicle konfigurations tried...

Wernher: Aber they nicht gut funktion. Now haben wir eine praktikable konfiguration!

Walter: The ascent capability has been verified with a quick jaunt to the Mun.

Wernher Zie next step, getting the vehicle to LKO intact... keeping zpent stages for refueling in orbit.

Walter: Now the vehicle is as it must be on the surface of Eve... fully fueled and akward as heck. A nuclear tug is to be dispatched to drag the heavy, but critical, load to Eve.

Wernher: Ja, the standard sized docking port vas a bit more flexible than is optimum!

Walter: The dedicated KPL controller crew persevered, however. The vehicle is on course for the desired landing spot.

Walter: The ascent vehicle has successfully landed on Eve! Wait. Wait. There appears to be a problem. I see the engineers coferring among themselves.

Walter: Doktor von Kerman, what is the situation?

Wernher: (zigh) It zeems dat zee landing test on Kerbin waz inadequate. Upon landing on Eve, strut compression allowed engine contact, engine (harumph) detonation.

Walter: Detonation? That sounds bad!

Wernher: Vell, zee vehicle as currently configured (with 1/3 of hitz engines knocked off) doez not haf zee thruzt for liftoff. If ve dizcard the fuel tanks mit-out engines, ve haf not the Delta V for orbit. Ja, wir sind screwed (ok, Tomman & Doobald sind screwed).

Walter: And there you have it, ladies and gentlemen, the mission to Eve (or at this point, the hoped for mission FROM Eve), is screwed, and the Universe is stuck at 0.25.

[Mister Dilsby]

Yep, that's not nearly enough leg for that little clearance. I have never had good results with landing gear on Eve, I always use aircraft wheels which are very tough and do not compress much.

[Geschosskopf]

Walter: And there you have it, ladies and gentlemen, the mission to Eve (or at this point, the hoped for mission FROM Eve), is screwed, and the Universe is stuck at 0.25.

Well, 0.25 was about my favorite version of KSP so count your blessings . I certainly liked it more than the current 1.whateveritisthisweek.

Yep, that's not nearly enough leg for that little clearance. I have never had good results with landing gear on Eve, I always use aircraft wheels which are very tough and do not compress much.

Or box girders, except for their worrisome tendency to slide on gentle slopes.