Bringing rover to Mun a.k.a. overkill.

[KubissusPL]

I've been doing some roleplaying recently, and having sent a probe to Mun, my next target became to put there a little rover. My experience with landing such vehicles on celestial bodies without atmosphere is very small, so I kinda overbuilt my rocket, but it worked fine afterall.

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1. The little guy with it's landing system. I've used procedural parts to create these two golden liquid fuel/oxidizer tanks.

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2. Liftoff! This rocket seems to be small, but it's over 200t. Nothing was wobbly, thanks to the power of struts.

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3. 1st stage managed to put the cargo in LKO. Time to decouple.

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4. It's time to get the spaceship to the Mun. 2nd stage will carry us there.

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5. Time to do stuff on Mun's orbit. First I need to slow down. The lighting isn't in my favour unfortunately, but I couldn't do anything about it.

Time to decouple!

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6. At this moment i've realized that i am an idiot, beacause i didn't put any probe in the 3rd stage and controlling the vehicle from the rover's perspective is difficult.

Despite the difficulties I managed to slow down a bit to make landing easier. Time to decouple!

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7. The landing was quite easy even though I forgot to put any rcs stuff on the lander

BTW I crashed once because i had to take a screenshot :|

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8. We've landed!

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9. External tanks decoupled!

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10. Structural part holding the tanks decoupled!

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11. The rover in all of it's glory.

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That's all. I have made too much spoilers and i have no clue how to delete them. Web programmer did attrocious job with the ui 

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Edited December 29, 2016 by KubissusPL