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Explorer: An Extended Grand Tour with 135 Landings

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Explorer: An Extended Grand Tour

WHAT'S NEW? - I added part 6

After over two years of development, testing, failure, and rebounding, I am proud to finally show off my grand tour of Kerbal Space Program. This is an extended grand tour, so in addition to the stock planets and moons, I also hit up some planet packs. It took about 2-3 months to complete, and one of the most difficult things about it was launching all the fuel I would need in one go, as this was one single launch. In the end I didn't return to Kerbin as I still have lots of fuel left and plan on traveling to more planet packs in the future with this same mission.

Basic Mission Profile

- Launch

- Separate craft into main hub and two fuel reserves, keep launch stage in orbit to use it's fuel if needed.

- Decide to keep Hub attached to one of the fuel reserves

- Land everywhere

PART 1 - Stock System and Outer Planets (33 landings)

Planets and Moons visited:

- Stock planets

- All OPM moons/ planets (by @Galileo)

- The Spud Moon mod (by @MrChumley)

- The More Gas Giants Mod (by @Alaygrounds)

- The Apollo System Mod (by hihowareya)

To everyone who made these planets, thank you for making the ride more interesting.

 

PART 2 - Dwarf Planets (34 landings)

Planets and Moons visited:

- The Trans-Keptunian Mod by @Gravitasi

- The Dwarf Planets Plus Mod by @UranianBlue

- The Plod System by @JacobJHC

- The Planet Nine Mod by @GregroxMun

- The Morimee System Mod by @Mythical Donuts

- The Kluto System Mod by @Alaygrounds

- The Ripple Moon Mod by @JacobJHC (Currently unreleased)

To everyone who made these planets, thank you for making the ride more interesting.

 

 

PART 3 - Many Moons of Kerbin (10 landings)

Planets and Moons visited:

- The Scott Münley Mod by Linecraftman

- The Trike Mod by Throwhound

- The Corxet Mod by @Mythical Donuts

- The Systemic Body Collection by @DeltaDizzy 

- The Outer Kerbin Mod by @dxeh

- The Stock Planet Expansion Mod by @The White Guardian

- The Muun Mod by SimogKerman and RoB9

- The Gemini Mod by @daniel l.

- The Moao Mod by Throwhound

PART 4 - (9 landings)

Planets and Moons visited:

- The Asclepius Mod by @MrChumley

- The Moons of Eve Mod by @Xenonclave

- The Strangely Recognizable Eve Moons Mod by @GregroxMun

- The Stock Planet Expansion Mod by @The White Guardian, broken worlds repaired by me and @Shawn Kerman

 

PART 4.5 - (0 landings)

Planets and Moons visited:

-  None. 

This video only served to get the ships from part 4 back to Kerbin, so part 5 didn't have clutter in the beginning.

PART 5 - The 100th Landing (20 Landings)

Planets and Moons visited:

- The Kronkus Mod by @MrChumley

- The Corelian Mod by @WarriorSabe

- The Dreskiller Base Mod by @RJVB09

- The KIP-2995 Mod (A Special variant that only includes Retrorsum, and reparents it to Kerbol) by @Heliocentric

- The Saru Planet Pack Mod by @tygoo7 (The forum page states it is a dead mod, but it worked pretty well when I tried it!)

- The Mios System Mod by @Xenonclave, Revived by @Shawn Kerman

 

PART 6 - (29 Landings)

Planets and Moons visited:

- The More Moons mod by... Unknown (if you know who made this please tell me!)

- The Stockalike Martian Moons Anaglogues Mod by @Beale

- The Moons of Duna Mod by @Xenonclave

- The Stock Planet Expansion by @The White Guardian, broken worlds repaired by me and @Shawn Kerman

- The Heroilis Planet Pack by @kramken

- The Miranda Moons Pack by @TomPN

- The 6th Planet Renewed Mod by @RJVB09

- The Salus Mod by @JacobJHC

- The Crankyjedi's Planet Pack by @CrankyJedi

- The Kerbol Expanded Bodies mod by @Andem

- The Paradox Mod by @Heliocentric

 

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Just now, Pretorian28715 said:

Gonna have to watch this at some point.

Keep us posted as to the other voyages.....

Sure thing, this will probably turn into one of those saga threads just without a story. In part two I will probably just visit a few more gas giants. The issue is finding planet packs that still work for this version that aren't OPM.

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4 hours ago, commierussia said:

Good job on the mission! Is there any chance of you releasing a craft file? Also, what version was this on?

Thanks!

I think it originally launched on 1.5 or 1.6, although I'm not completely sure. At the moment I don't plan on releasing a craft file.

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On 5/12/2020 at 11:58 AM, dxeh said:

Awesome!

Thank you for planting that flag on Phybi and Izmi!

 

Thank you for making them! They were definitely the best made worlds I visited in part 3 in terms of surface visuals.

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3 hours ago, Kerballing (Got Dunked On) said:

My gawd... sir, you have my kudos. 77 bodies... no refueling... how much planning did this TAKE?!?

Including failed iterations I didn't end up using, about 2 years. :)

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3 hours ago, Darkona said:

I need to ask...

How long in ingame time did all this take? 

I honestly have no idea. For part 1, I did two landings per day, each took a few hours. For everything after that it's up in the air. I suppose I could add up all the time on the raw footage and get a rough estimate, but that would take ages. 

What I can say definitively is that I redesigned this mission and even restarted it over the course of 2 years, up until the first video was finished. It was a long time in the making. :D

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20 hours ago, JacobJHC said:

I honestly have no idea. For part 1, I did two landings per day, each took a few hours. For everything after that it's up in the air. I suppose I could add up all the time on the raw footage and get a rough estimate, but that would take ages. 

What I can say definitively is that I redesigned this mission and even restarted it over the course of 2 years, up until the first video was finished. It was a long time in the making. :D

Thanks for the answer, but that's not what I meant, I guess I asked the wrong way. What I mean is how many years in kerbal time have passed since you started in the save. What does the clock say at the end?

 

I have to add, I'm thoroughly impressed with your videos. I can't fathom doing something like that in my wildest dreams. My greatest kudos to you pulling that off. I'm very, very humbled by your dedication and preparation.

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Are you considering doing a Duna Moons grand tour? This could probably use XPC Duna moons (Nyke and Duna rings), Stock Planet Expansion (Smov/Prolla), Revamped Stock Solar System (Rimos), etc.

If you're curious what Revamped Stock Solar System is, it's this: 

 

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