Kerbal Space Program - The Early Days.

[The Flying Kerbal]

Hey Guys,

I'm wondering if there is, or ever has been, a mod that would allow players to run missions based on the early days of the American space program, only staying in the Kerbin system?

I've seen videos recreating some of the projects the US ran in the late 40's and 50's in RO on Youtube, but I'm not really interested in RO (that's code for I'm not a good enough player to use RO), but I'd be really interested in being able to run Kerballised experimental flights and missions similar to the X-Planes, etc.

Any information will be very much appreciated. 

Edited April 16, 2019 by The Flying Kerbal
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[BlackHat]

Get Contract Configurator

Get Historical Contract Pacs.

Try: one of these.

History of Spaceflight  @Frylovespi  (Probably was used in the RO YouTube videos. BUT is also playable in stock according to description)

Historical Progression  @pap172

If you dont want as much historical structure maybe try one of these.

Spacetux - Unmanned Contracts @linuxgurugamer

Additional Progression Contracts  @tjsnh

Career Evolution Contract Pack @pap1723

 

AFAIK all of them start out with Unmanned missions first, building up your skill before launching manned missions.

EDIT: You will probably also need one of the unmanned before manned tech trees (I think there are 3-4 different ones now) to get the required parts earlier that the stock tech tree.

Edited April 16, 2019 by BlackHat

[Snark]

Moving to Add-on Discussions, since this is not an add-on release.

[The Flying Kerbal]

Thanks very much for taking the time to provide such a detailed and helpful response BlackHat, I'll start acting on your suggestions this weekend.

Sorry 'bout that Snark, me bad.