Constellation Mun Mission

[Ozymandias_the_Goat]

I took inspiration from the loading hint "adding K to every word". Mods used: SpaceY lifters, but mostly stock parts.

KSP, Kape Kerbal, Launch Complex 1A. A Kares V rocket stands poised to launch. It carries the crewless Munar lander and Kerbin Departure Stage. <Reporter is then temporalily stunned and deafened by the sound of the launch>

The Kares I Crew launch vehicle stands ready to launch hours after the Kares V. Once in orbit, the Orion CSM will rendezvous and dock with the KDS and Munar lander. Then it's to the Mun. Our crew today will be Commander/Lander Pilot Lemford Kerman, CSM pilot Elzon Kerman, and Scientist Kerson Kerman.

Liftoff!

Pitch and Roll complete.

Korion is in LKO. Two more orbits till the evening rendezvous with the Kares V.

Time to Dock! I got the rendezvous good at about 100m, but I can't usually do any better that that.

I'm not the best at docking, so I took another orbit before a shaky TMI burn. Now Korion and the Munar lander coast towards the Mun.

My Orion has about 1.2 k/s of Delta-V so it can do both the capture burn and the escape burn. My final orbit is somewhere around 15 km high.

An awe-inspiring image of an awed Kerson Kerman looking at an awe-inspiring Kerbin from the mun before landing.

Lemford Kerman becomes the first Kerbal to walk on the mun in over a week! The dust does indeed seem to be getting everywhere.

Stack-A-Kerbal!

A more respectable flag pic.

Time to leave. Look out the window and you see gray rock, dust, and craters,

Lemford Freaks Out. Slight Derpiness.

Korion comes in to dock at about 200m. The ships were pretty well lined up to dock, so the manuevers were easy.

Elzon does the maths.

Korion flies over the landing site before escape burn.

All engines go for Kerbin Return Burn.

You gotta go, you gotta go.

After multiple visits to the lavatory, the Kerbals take a moment to enjoy the view of the mun as they head for home. "ooh, that one down there was a nasty impact!"

Only a few minutes till a safe splashdown or a fiery death!

What? Now you're all happy? That gray smudge above the capsule is the remains if the service module.

Chutes away! 

Mains deployed! Elzon still seems to need some visual reassurance that yes, the chutes are actually deployed.

Everyone is content again upon another happy landing. No wet spacesuits were reported!

 

 

 

 

[Wallygator]

I like this.  Really good!  Well done sir!