A Fully Reusable Saturn V using the Making History Expansion

[SparkeyFlarkey]

The Legendary Saturn V, re-imagined in a more modern and cost saving way, now with the ability to be completely reused!

Craft file: https://kerbalx.com/SparkeyFlarkey/Reusable-Saturn-V

This behemoth has a few changes that make it stand out from the original, such as legs, wings, and extra boosters!

Album 1HfHnMs will appear when post is submitted

Specific changes:

• 4 extra vector engines on the first stage
• second stage uses 5 vectors instead of skiffs as it needs to make orbit quickly
• Lunar module has only one stage instead of two to get the whole thing back
• service module is now a spaceplane capable of verticle landings, instead of a boring command pod
• no Launch escape tower (safety is for cowards)

No mods required, other than the Making History expansion

Here is a video of the craft flying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIy8cMku39Q&feature=youtu.be

[Iguas]

Awesome ! Do you know the max payload it can deliver to LKO while being reusable ? (if i put a fairing on it) Nice work 

[VinnieTheAstronaut]

On 6/26/2018 at 11:34 PM, SparkeyFlarkey said:

The Legendary Saturn V, re-imagined in a more modern and cost saving way, now with the ability to be completely reused!

Craft file: https://kerbalx.com/SparkeyFlarkey/Reusable-Saturn-V

This behemoth has a few changes that make it stand out from the original, such as legs, wings, and extra boosters!

Album 1HfHnMs will appear when post is submitted

Specific changes:

• 4 extra vector engines on the first stage
• second stage uses 5 vectors instead of skiffs as it needs to make orbit quickly
• Lunar module has only one stage instead of two to get the whole thing back
• service module is now a spaceplane capable of verticle landings, instead of a boring command pod
• no Launch escape tower (safety is for cowards)

No mods required, other than the Making History expansion

Here is a video of the craft flying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIy8cMku39Q&feature=youtu.be

 

Why not a launch escape tower?! What if something were to go wrong, and the astronauts die?

[RealKerbal3x]

1 hour ago, VinnieTheAstronaut said:

Why not a launch escape tower?! What if something were to go wrong, and the astronauts die?

Probably because you can’t recover the LES.

I’d give the CM a reusable LES that remains attached, like the SuperDraco engines on SpaceX’s Dragon V2 spacecraft.

[VinnieTheAstronaut]

8 hours ago, RealKerbal3x said:

Probably because you can’t recover the LES.

I’d give the CM a reusable LES that remains attached, like the SuperDraco engines on SpaceX’s Dragon V2 spacecraft.

Unless you can give it a parachute (If it falls back to earth)