Lewie Aerospace

[Lewie]

Alright. Let’s do this.

I just started this save doing your basic science stuff, went to mun and minmus, biome hopped, etc. etc.

But today...I went to gilly.

I got to eve no problem. I preformed my capture burn and changed my anti-normal/normal to match gilly’s orbit. It took me about half an hour of just dinking around with maneuver nodes to get the encounter.

Now, because I am an idiot, I was a bit over zealous with my capture burn and was sent on a collision course. Not bad, cus you know, it’s gilly. But I had no lights, barely any sas control, no engine gimbal (I was using nukes) and I was going to land on the night side. I know I could’ve easily switched my orbit to land on the day side, but I had spent so much time getting to gilly I didn’t want to bother with that.

So the descent went well, up until I realized my altimeter was set for sea level...

and I became the first ksp player to crash on gilly.

Thankfully I made a quick save and I managed to land the craft this time.

I took Val, Jeb and bBill out for an eva. I now realized that I forgot Bob, so I couldn’t deploy the science station. Yargh.

The journey home went smoothly, Jeb was getting anxious to get home. He want to do something a little bit more risky...

Like ride a dune buggy with Val into the sunset. On Duna.

Stay tuned folks, cus in two days I’ll have a new mission report!

Edited July 1, 2020 by Lewie

[James Kerman]

Congratulations on your first docking with Gilly!
 

28 minutes ago, Lewie said:

and I became he first ksp player to crash on gilly.

Unfortunately this is not true. 

[aspacecephalopod]

59 minutes ago, Lewie said:

So the descent went well, up until I realized my altimeter was set for sea level...

and I became he first ksp player to crash on gilly.

Citation needed

Have done that altimeter realization far too many times landing in the dark... F9 really is great sometimes. Nice report and congrats on getting there! Transfers to Gilly are always tricky cause of that elliptical inclined orbit.

Edited July 1, 2020 by aspacecephalopod

[KerballingSmasher]

12 hours ago, Lewie said:

and I became he first ksp player to crash on gilly.

... *insert Matt Lowne clip*

 

That said, you're probably still only the fifth to publicly acknowledge it.

[Lewie]

10 minutes ago, Kerballing (Got Dunked On) said:

... *insert Matt Lowne clip*

 

That said, you're probably still only the fifth to publicly acknowledge it.

I remember that montage...*laughs*

[Misguided Kerbal]

12 hours ago, Lewie said:

and I became the first ksp player to crash on gilly.

And no.... because I glitched through Gilly once! Also, glad to see you have a mission report thread.

Edited July 1, 2020 by Misguided_Kerbal

[Lewie]

10 hours ago, Misguided_Kerbal said:

And no.... because I glitched through Gilly once! Also, glad to see you have a mission report thread.

Thanks! I hope KASA gets up and running again soon.

lucky you, the kraken decided to take mercy on you. Phasing through gilly, as the kraken had smiled upon you.

Edited July 2, 2020 by Lewie

[Lewie]

Sorry for the delay, I had some stuff come up irl that consumed most of my time. 

But the other day, I decided to capture an asteroid. I wanted to build an asteroid/refueling base in high kerbin orbit. after a while in max timewarp via. tacking station, I saw a class c on a collision course with kerbin. After doing some math, I figured what I would have to do to capture it and slam the ksc. After roughly 20 attempts, I successful latched onto the asteroid via. the mini klaw. It was in space very high above kerman, so after some more math I deducded I would be able to adjust the orbit just ever so slightly and it the ksc with it. It took many, many, times (42 attempts!) But I did finally manage to land it at the ksc. just for giggles, I decided to land it in the astronaut complex's parking lot. So now whenever those kerbonauts look out the window, they see this huge asteroid sitting outside. 

It took me nearly three hours, but it was worth it.