space shuttle competition

[pandytheman]

 

   I will declare two winners, one who has used mods and another who has used stock ksp. I will announce the winners by updating this topic five days after this upload. I will judge the shuttles by their usability, their practicality, their creativity and their reusability.  to entre simply make a Space Shuttle that follows the criteria and post at least four Pictures from the mission in the reply section, of which one must be on the Launchpad, one must be on accent after booster separation, one must be of the payload deploying and one must be at landing. Alternatively you can post a video if you prefer that.

The rules  are simple:

You have to make an orbit capable Space Shuttle based on the NASA designee

The shuttle needs to have at least three stages

The shuttle orbiter stage must have a payload capacity to LEO (low Earth orbit) of at least 27, 5 tons.

The orbiter must not only be able to reach LEO, it must also be able to do a retro burn and land back at KSC.

 

      

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[Vanamonde]

Sounds like a challenge. And so, moved to Challenges. 

[KingDominoIII]

Seems pretty similar to the STS challenge v5.

[Andetch]

16 hours ago, KingDominoIII said:

Seems pretty similar to the STS challenge v5.

STS thread is far more interesting, as your shuttle needs to be capable of doing a multitude of tasks, with different payloads etc.

I could throw at least 4 designs up here. My STS1 entry took 40t to lko, and landed back at KSC deadstick. 

Slowklymah can take a similar weight to Duna, and Manta can take a buttload of passengers as well as a payload larger than 27.5t into LKO and has IRSU on board too! 

OP should check that out.