Orbital Photography INC.

[Zaphod Kerman]

 

 

Orbital Photography INC. Mission Report 1.

Classified KSC Document

Due to recent difficulties on deciding on a budget, all Kerbal government programs were under review. Inspectors were been sent to the KSC and worked on compiling a list of pros and cons.

Cons:

• Irresponsible Management
• "It would look cool" being confused with "let's do it"
• Pushback from Kerbal Rights groups for workplace safety violations

Pros:

(Still working on this)

 

In a final attempt to rescue the Space Program Gene Kerman decided that a series of photos from space would convince Kerbalkind that their missions are not futile.

However, due to lack of funding the contract was given to the lowest bidders: Orbital Photography INC. (According to some rumors they were actually three friends with little photography experience just wanting to go to space. Disregard these no matter how much they reflect reality.)

The first mission was meant to introduce the crew to spaceflight, as well as allow the to calibrate their cameras.

 

In this picture taken just before the launch of the first mission Theogel, head engineer, photographer and president of OPI, Lanfied, assistant photographer and engineer, and Franzon, head of technology posed in front of the hastily built ship, with their pilot Jebediah.

 

The spaceship, unlike many though, made it off the ground without much difficulty.

 

Staging was also successful.

 

However, in the process of making a craft so quickly a few key features were overlooked. One such feature being stability and in the middle of the flight Jeb lost control of the craft and it flipped.

 

The craft was righted in time and parachutes were deployed.

 

 

However, in the standard careless style of the KSC that lead to this situation in the first place another craft was ready on the pad by the time the krew returned, this time with more fins.

 

Launch proceeded nominally, as did booster separation.

 

However, they decided that, as this was their second launch it would be smart to begin testing their camera equipment, and before mission control could threaten them with termination of contract they had exited the capsule.

 

Their tests complete they prepared to descend.

 

While this mission succeeded after some initial failure the Space program was still far from receiving the extra funding they needed.

[4472TJ]

This sounds like a great new story, one word of advice, the pictures are stretched a bit too much to be appreciated, so try resizing them to make this thread even better. This looks like a very promising thread!

[Chemp]

14 hours ago, Zaphod Kerman said:

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Welcome to the forum!

I'm eager to see how the story develops, keep it up.

23 minutes ago, 4472TJ said:

the pictures are stretched a bit too much to be appreciated

They show up just fine for me, on both PC and mobile.

[4472TJ]

26 minutes ago, Chemp said:

They show up just fine for me, on both PC and mobile.

Strange... The Kracken must have my mobile

[Lithobrake]

Welcome Aboard, @Zaphod Kerman!

[Zaphod Kerman]

On 2/17/2019 at 9:01 AM, 4472TJ said:

This sounds like a great new story

 

On 2/17/2019 at 9:29 AM, Chemp said:

'm eager to see how the story develops, keep it up

 

47 minutes ago, Lithobrake said:

Welcome Aboard

Thank you for all of your kind comments.