Val goes to Vall (Pic Heavy)

[nsgallup]

After Moho was knocked off the list Val wanted to go to Vall, the name just seemed to be calling her there..

Previous career mission links:

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/...28Pic-Heavy%29

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/...on-Maintenance

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/...28Pic-Heavy%29

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/136849-A-Day-at-the-Beach%21-Laythe-Landing-and-Return-%28Pic-Heavy%29

The Delta V requirements were not as strenuous so it was decided to use an underpowered prototype of the same rocket that went to Moho, dubbed the Thanatos MkI. The lander is the exact same as the Moho one.

Stage separation

Interplanetary burn

Approaching Jool

Jool

Coming up on Vall

Detaching lander

Deorbit burn

Preparing for touch down

Landing successful!

Glamour shot

Vall was so excited on the descent she forgot to dump the exhausted tanks

They'll be sitting here for a long time

Val hops the lander over a few kilometres for two additional landings and clears all three equatorial biomes

The three landing sites

Rendezvous

Val spots the KRV (Kerbin Return Vehicle)

Val performs a short spacewalk to transfer to the KRV, the MkI does not have docking capability

Leaving Vall

Approaching Kerbin

Re-Entry

Home sweet home

Edited October 16, 2015 by nsgallup