"We choose to go to the Mun" Apollo-style in 1.0

[FlyingPete]

I was experimenting with the stock fairings in 1.0, and, since I've never found a need for the 3.75m parts before now either, decided to have a go at an Apollo-style mission. The Munar Module is a little bit over-fuelled, plus I forgot to add RCS (these will be fixed for future missions) but I got the craft to work. Next job is a Skylab analogue launched on the same booster.

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[GehringGame]

Your launcher bears a nice clean resemblance to the Saturn V, nice work.

[FlyingPete]

It was more a case of design convergence (apart from the engine cluster on the 2nd stage- that was intentional) and finding what worked to launch the payload. The size of the Munar Module meant a 3.75m launcher was needed. With the revised aero model in 1.0, I'll probably be making more use of these parts- in previous versions I tended to just mount several 2.5m stacks side by side.