Historical mission bugged?

[rundmcarlson]

I am trying to complete the dawn of the space age mission and the first rocket I need to build has a maximum mass of 3.3T but the only available motor is the RT-10 weighing in at 3.5T. I know the latest update replaced a bunch of stock parts. Is this a remnant of a bad upgrade or is the mission bugged? I am running from a steam installation.

[Kerbart]

4 minutes ago, rundmcarlson said:

I am trying to complete the dawn of the space age mission and the first rocket I need to build has a maximum mass of 3.3T but the only available motor is the RT-10 weighing in at 3.5T. I know the latest update replaced a bunch of stock parts. Is this a remnant of a bad upgrade or is the mission bugged? I am running from a steam installation.

You can take out fuel. That's probably part of the "puzzle"

A bigger issue is that if the first flight doesn't end in success. A friend told me they forgot to separate the staging between chute and booster; something that I myself would of course never do. After "recover flight" he ended up at the KSC menu screen, with all facilities closed, and no other options available.

[rundmcarlson]

46 minutes ago, Kerbart said:

You can take out fuel. That's probably part of the "puzzle"

A bigger issue is that if the first flight doesn't end in success. A friend told me they forgot to separate the staging between chute and booster; something that I myself would of course never do. After "recover flight" he ended up at the KSC menu screen, with all facilities closed, and no other options available.

That is very counter intuitive. The idea that the early space program would take oversized parts and run them partially full doesn't seem realistic and with historical missions I expected something more true to the nature of starting small and building big. Its especially strange because the flea booster exists which is smaller and could take you to 5k altitude.

 

Anyway, thanks for the help. I just assumed it was bugged and didnt even think of removing fuel.