One Small Step...

[Jarnis]

It took quite many failed rocket designs, but I finally managed to get a 3-man lander on the Mun.

The new parts are really wobbly. It\'s like flying with NovaPunch parts... Only way I could get a sane rocket to hold together with this thing at the top was to use 1M parts for the second stage and for 6x LFE boosters around a 3M first stage... ridiculously large rocket, weight about 250 tons. Landing mass on the Mun 17.7 tons... I think the new parts still need some work

Edit: And I got them back home safely as well. Landing wasn\'t quite on target (ran out of fuel to properly put it at KSC) but any landing you can walk away from is a good one, right?

[Jarnis]

Here is the contraption that got the lander there... Both SRBs *and* LFE-based 2nd strap-ons... 3M parts are just so damn heavy. Smallest 3M LF Tank weighs some like 8x as much as the tiny 1M LF Tank... I guess if the rest of the rocket was also built out of 3M parts (so something like 5-7 3M Liquid Engines at the first stage) it wouldn\'t be such of an issue but such design just tears itself apart...