Old-style Rocket Program

[Whirligig Girl]

This is written as a possible Reddit Weekly Challenge, but as it's probably not going to be put into service, why not post it to the forum?

Introduction

Jeb found a time machine hiding on top of the VAB, and has found himself in the past! The only other time machine is on the Mun (or if you're impressive enough some other harder-to-reach planet)! Problem is, Jeb is stuck before the invention of the liquid-fueled rocket, in the age of steam, cogs, and gunpowder rockets!

The Challenge

Normal Mode: Create a rocket using only SRBs, with no Solar Panels, and fly it to the surface of the Mun near some kind of easter egg or monument.

Hard Mode: Create a rocket using only SRBs, with no Solar Panels, and fly it to the surface of the Mun near some kind of easter egg or monument, without using RCS.

Harder Mode: Don't use map view.

Super Mode: Impress me.

The Rules

-Your spacecraft must not use any Liquid Fuel or Oxidizer for rocket thrust. It can be used to generate power with a fuel cell, however.

-You are not allowed any linear thrust with monopropellant. Monopropellant is for turning only.

-Your Spacecraft must not use any solar panels or Radioisotope Generators for power generation.

-You must not provide any screenshots of the location of the monument or easter egg, unless it is clearly marked as a spoiler.

-Use of the O-1 Puff Monopropellant Engine is not allowed.

-For a list of allowed mods, see this post.

Required Screenshots

-Your craft before launch

-Your craft at every staging event

-Your craft doing any major burns

-Your craft landed on the Mun, next to a monument

-Hardmode only Your craft launching back to Kerbin

-Hardmode only Your craft landed at Kerbin.

-Anything else you want, except for anything that would show on the map screen where the monument is clearly, unless marked by a spoiler.

Further Information

-If you have any questions, just ask in the thread.

-This is written as a reddit challenge.

-The downgraded SRBs from the 1.0 update present a rather different challenge than they did in 0.90. It is considerably more difficult. Bright side is that you can use RCS for turning your bigger rockets.

[HoloYolo]

Hmm...maybe I could make a fuel-celled powered probe....

[Teilnehmer]

Hard Mode: Create a rocket using only SRBs, with no Solar Panels, and fly it to the surface of the Mun near some kind of easter egg or monument, without using RCS.

. . .

-Hardmode only Your craft launching back to Kerbin

-Hardmode only Your craft landed at Kerbin.

So is returning to Kerbin required for hard mode or not?

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The challenge is great and hard!

It’s pretty easy to land on Mun. I went manned. My rocket wasn’t big at all. There was no problem with turning it without RCS or even dedicated reaction wheels. The torque of the MK1 lander can inline reaction wheel in vacuum and winglets at the bottom of the rocket in atmosphere are more than enough. I also didn’t use fuel cells.

The insuperable obstacle for me is the requirement to land near an easter egg or monument. Precise landing is very hard without throttling!

I suppose the only way for me is to try landing a hundred times and accidentally hit the point.

What is the maximum acceptable distance to an easter egg?

Edited July 22, 2015 by Teilnehmer

[K3achas]

I'd like to point out that if it wern't for launch failures on the rocket's end, the first satalite would have been solar powered. In reality, that satalite, Vanguard 1, was the fourth overall and will be in a stable orbit for over two hundred more years.

[Teilnehmer]

The insuperable obstacle for me is…

I overestimated the difficulty. In fact, it’s pretty easy.

My attempt (one way to the Mun, used map view):

Edited July 26, 2015 by Teilnehmer