Storytime with SkyHook #2: Rover, Rover

[SkyHook]

That\'s right. My mission for this time was to bring two ground vehicles to the surface of the moon, and relatively close to my Long Stay Solar Base so that I didn\'t have to walk too far. After all, if I have to walk long distances there\'s no point!

I set out and came up with a good design:

The testing went like this:

It actually went relatively well, and I got to the moon and was prepared to land, but then I discovered a fatal flaw: the point of thrust was imbalanced and the craft spun end over end. As expected I crashed, and had to start over.

I gutted my original design and simplified it, and changed the point of thrust. It worked! I tested during the day and all systems worked as intended. Now to wait until night for launch..

On the pad and ready for launch, I engaged VTOL engines, took off, and switched to main engines, and I was off! I now have getting to the moon down to a science, and getting there was simple. Just had to wait until I landed to see if the VTOL engines would behave.

Ready!

Nice action shot of takeoff.

In orbit awaiting injection.

On target.

Missed! Circling around..

Landed! Now to walk the rest of the way.

Landing and navigation was challenging from my original injection, but I was able to touch down about 1.3 Km from my base. I forgot the parking brakes for the trucks, so one of them rolled downhill! Had to go get it on EVA. Had both in position, took pictures, and left to drive my new trucks.

Parking brake ftw.

Having some trouble retrieving my truck!

Done!

Hope everyone enjoyed this post, and as always, remember to leave comments, criticism, and suggestions below! See everyone soon!

[gta-man]

I request a list of mods used in this awesome trip

[Dizzle]

You...you built a plane that drops trucks onto the Mun. ???

[SkyHook]

You...you built a plane that drops trucks onto the Mun. ???

I had to, too much surface!

I request a list of mods used in this awesome trip

Tosh\'s cart plugin and carts, Kosmos pack, Eagle 1999 spaceplane (from some sci fi series), OA floodlights, damned robotics, test weights, BACE construction..and VERY IMPORTANT empty crewpods that should be all! Refer to #1 of the series for the base that I built this for. Thanks for reading!

[OperationDx]

haha... Awesome!

[SkyHook]

Thanks! I like your rover too, especially that it looks to have a suspension. Thinking up some things for a minmus trip soon.