Ms Val school goes to the moon ! (and Jeb's heroic return from Eve)

[Irvin]

Hi all, this is the first time I post here what I'm doing in KSP, I hope I won't break some forum rules. This morning I was reading some old reddit challenges, the first one was to put 25 people on the Mun, the second one was to design an Appolo style mission to land two people and a rover. So I thought why not send a huge rover, e.g a school bus, to the Mun ?

So here is how Ms Val, 31 childs and three pilots went there.

On the launchpad, OK it does not exactly look like a school bus but it carries 35 people anyway.

Just after launch, everything goes well, separation of the first aspargus stage:

Apoapsis is high enough, let's aim for the Mun!

Here we go !

After some adjustments:

Braking hard to get into orbit around the Mun:

30 km high circular orbit and some fuel left in the main tank for deorbiting !

Choosing a nice "muning" site, and getting there without breaking anything:

I had just enough fuel in the main tank to get there !

Gently braking

Driving a bit around there:

Everybody enjoys the trip !

But it is time to go home. At first I thought I would have to leave the landing gear here but I had enough thrust to take it back to Kerbin:

After some aerobraking and orbit adjustments

It is time for the childs to come back home and watch Jebediah leaving Kerbin again for it's next mission to Eve:

1.9 km away from Jebediah's next rocket, not too bad !

Val had to EVA to repair two wheels broken at landing:

And the 34 other people are back just in time for Jebediah to jump in its new rocket: The Eve Express:

On this new mission Jebediah became the most famous kerbonaut of all time as he was the first one to come back alive from Eve.

However it looks like after some errors it the D/V available in his lander he had only enough fuel to reach a 9165m periapsis, what could he do ? Is he going to die there ?

Of course niot, Jeb fears nothing so he used his EVA suit to gain some more D/V:

Depleted too, but he is safe:

Time to send the return ship to pick him up:

It was a bit tricky as Jeb was not able to move but finally he managed to grab it and board:

No time for nice optimal transfer orbits, we have lots of fuel now so lets burn it and come back home:

And after a safe landing Jeb took some well deserved holidays...

... on Eeloo !!!

Maybe next time he'll drive Ms Val's school bus here ?

Edited August 1, 2015 by Irvin
Wrong planet name

[Goddess Bhavani]

A spacefaring school bus?

My, I am so going to borrow this concept, the next time women ask me what's the point of KSP... we can send our children to the far side of the Mun... and 50 years later unleash the meteorblitzkrieg fleet on unsuspecting humanity!

[Irvin]

Hummm asteroid bombing from the Mun by angry kids who didn't get the latest PlayStation 5... That's an idea for my next KSP afternoon !

[samstarman5]

The one thing that came to mind through all of this is the Magic School Bus. It may be hard now not to see Valentina as Miss Frizzle.

[Rainbow-Dashie]

The one thing that came to mind through all of this is the Magic School Bus. It may be hard now not to see Valentina as Miss Frizzle.

I knew I should have stayed home today...