What madness is this!

[selfish_meme]

A cookie for the first correct answer about what is being built. I'm so meta.

[Technical Ben]

Shuttle inside a shuttle inside a shuttle. (It's been done)

Or SSTO inside a STTO inside a STTO. which may not have been done. Not sure about your single rocket stage there though.

[selfish_meme]

Shuttle inside a shuttle inside a shuttle. (It's been done)

Or SSTO inside a STTO inside a STTO. which may not have been done. Not sure about your single rocket stage there though.

Very close, there are two SSTO's inside an SSTO, but for what purpose?

[Mipe]

To me it looks like a shuttle and a lander inside a larger shuttle.

EVE mission? Atmospheric plane and a Gilly lander. Though EVE has no oxygen in the atmosphere, maybe Laythe?

Edited July 4, 2015 by Mipe

[selfish_meme]

To me it looks like a shuttle and a lander inside a larger shuttle.

EVE mission? Atmospheric lander and a Gilly lander. Though EVE has no oxygen in the atmosphere, maybe Laythe?

Doesn't the lander look a bit overpowered for gilly? and the rapier on the shuttle would not be any good for getting off Eve

[Mipe]

What, do people ever plan to get off Eve? Point taken, though. Since there's an intake on the smaller plane, I assume it's going to fly on a planet with oxygen in atmosphere. There are only two in stock, Kerbin and Laythe. Kerbin makes little sense, so I'll bet on Laythe.

And the lander seems overpowered for a Gilly, yes. Since the Terrier is useless in an atmosphere, I figure it's meant to land on a planet or moon without atmosphere. The abundance of fuel hints to a rather ambitious plan to conquer multiple moons - or at least biome hop on a low-G moon.

Planning to tour Jool?

[r4pt0r]

WHOA HOLD THE PHONE!

That terrier engine will suck fuel from the tank through the lander can?!?!

Why have I never tried that? That's brilliant!

[Commander Zoom]

Yyyyup.

I saw someone else do that, for an Eve Return final stage, and copied it for mine: small tank, (on top of) lander can, with engine(s) on the bottom.

[selfish_meme]

What, do people ever plan to get off Eve? Point taken, though. Since there's an intake on the smaller plane, I assume it's going to fly on a planet with oxygen in atmosphere. There are only two in stock, Kerbin and Laythe. Kerbin makes little sense, so I'll bet on Laythe.

And the lander seems overpowered for a Gilly, yes. Since the Terrier is useless in an atmosphere, I figure it's meant to land on a planet or moon without atmosphere. The abundance of fuel hints to a rather ambitious plan to conquer multiple moons - or at least biome hop on a low-G moon.

Planning to tour Jool?

Here's your Internet cookie, well there was 2 seconds of entertainment.

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WHOA HOLD THE PHONE!

That terrier engine will suck fuel from the tank through the lander can?!?!

Why have I never tried that? That's brilliant!

Yeah I discovered it during my mun speed run in my sig, I was surprised too.

[Mipe]

Here's your Internet cookie, well there was 2 seconds of entertainment.

Going to try that trick on Mun now. And Minmus. Maybe there's enough fuel for both!

[cantab]

Here's your Internet cookie, well there was 2 seconds of entertainment.

"JGT" ought to have been a clue. Although, does that stand for Jool Grand Tour, Jeb's Grand Tour, or even JGT Grand Tour?

[selfish_meme]

"JGT" ought to have been a clue. Although, does that stand for Jool Grand Tour, Jeb's Grand Tour, or even JGT Grand Tour?

Yeah, Jool Grand Tour, I tried to put a few clues in there

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I jut realised I used an old lander , it's got barely enough dV for Tylo, I changed the tank for a 2.5m 200 for about 5600m/s dV

[LtWhiskers]

I like your design. Compact and simple. Nice!

[Scotius]

http://i.giphy.com/EKUvB9uFnm2Xe.gif

Going to try that trick on Mun now. And Minmus. Maybe there's enough fuel for both!

It's going to be like landing a long pipe on 4 small legs A bit of a slope and...TIMBEERRRRR!

[Mipe]

I did find that out the hard way, yes. Why so slopey, Mun? Why?!

[Sharpy]

Yeah, feeling so smartass about my lander consisting of the command pod resting on a stack decoupler, to which *radially* three flat (shortest) Rockomax tanks were attached. And legs extending from these, attached so high there was barely any clearance for the engines.

For the launch, there were additional decouplers and nose cones filled with fuel on top of these three, but they were discarded, emptied, some 1000m above Mun surface.

While the decoupler was meant to free the command pod from the three tanks with their engines, legs and batteries for reentry, actually the lander legs more than made up for the extra mass which made the fall faster, so I recovered the lander whole (after a cautious quicksave before reentry...)

[Windspren]

Jool-5

[Guest]

Thanks for that cookie monster rules!

[NecroBones]

Just in case no one pointed it out (haven't read the whole thread):

The small lander has the pod mounted upside-down relative to the Terrier engine and landing legs.

[selfish_meme]

Just in case no one pointed it out (haven't read the whole thread):

The small lander has the pod mounted upside-down relative to the Terrier engine and landing legs.

It was just a mock-up of the cargo bay, getting the sizes right.