Of craft compatibility and the KSP community

[ShadowZone]

Ok, so this post is about two things.

First of all, I just wanted to say that I absolutely love the KSP community. There were many instances where I would have quit the game were it not for some new inspirations you guys here, on reddit or on youtube gave me.

Such an inspiration happened this week... I had a mission gone bad (the lander for an Outer Planets Mod exploration mission was destroyed - thankfully the pilot survived with all the science) and was planning to send another lander out there. I could have gone the easy way and just build a new transfer vehicle and send the lander to Sarnus. But then one YouTube commenter suggested I used an old rocket that was still in LKO.

It was called the "Joolishka" and I used it to complete my Jool-5 mission successfully. However, it was still from version 0.90 and had 21 nuke engines that - back then - used not just liquid fuel but also oxidizer and didn't require radiators.

So yeah... quite the conundrum. However, I managed to upgrade the old girl with some parts and brought the new lander to my OPM mission craft. That was really an awesome experience and I wouldn't have had that if I hadn't got the idea from within the KSP community.

Conclusion: It seems like you can actually use some of your old nuke ships, if they have enough docking ports to attach some radiators and additional fuel tanks

Second conclusion: KSP rocks!

The final 12 images in this album are relevant to what I have written here.

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Video of the retrofitting of the 0.90 vehicle.