The Hercules program. (Report Cancelled: please ignore)

Hyperspace Industries · December 17, 2021

I'm just gonna say it, I've never been beyond Duna without using the debug menu. ;.; I'd just finished my Mun landing, I thought it was going to be too hard, and I used a kraken drive to get to Duna. ;.; After that (still a bit hard mission) I found the debug menu, and I teleported to Eeloo. ;.; I didn't stop, I went to Jool and Eve and Moho and everywhere else, I had fun, but not as much as I would if I had the challenge.

I've decided to right those wrongs, in a program I have named: Hercules:

Hercules 1 and 2 were rendezvous attempts, which failed, and I cheated them to the surface (2 launches and switching between them means no revert) after discovering I forgot the parachutes, this doesn't count as cheating since it was essentially revert to launch. (Hey, my program my rules.)

Here are their pics:

Hercules 1: Jeb and Phogan, 2 Val and Natalya

I plead guilty too attempted Minimus mission.

Cause of failure: Fell into atmo during circularization burn.

That's not gone well.

Edited December 18, 2021 by Hyperspace Industries

Hyperspace Industries · December 18, 2021

Hercules 4 and 5: To Gilly! Slowly!

Early lander design. Yeah, I'm landin' that thing on Gilly with one ion engine! (the twr is for Gilly)

Sorry about the antenna.

And the brother sister duo of Vyacheslav and Inessa Kerolev blast off to orbit.

Circularized fine.

An interplanetary correction burn went haywire because I could only steer with thrust vectoring, this, right here, is when I realized ion engines have no steering.

Yay for quicksaves!

Because I don't want to do the whole mission over because I forgot reaction wheels, I cheated the new Hercules 5 into medium Eve orbit, used the maneuver planner to get a Gilly "encounter" executed the burn, found that I did cross Gilly's path, but the maneuver planner hadn't given me the right maneuver! :mad: Now still missing my Gilly rendezvous, but having expended a fair bit of delta v, I cheated to around Gilly. (I know, I know, this is supposed to be without cheating, but still, my program, my rules, I choose when breaking the rules counts.)

I'm meaning to start reading Known Space, anyone know where I should start?

Gravity is out to lunch.

If I remember right, Hercules 5 had 4900 or something delta v left, anyways, it was getting late, and I had more than enough delta v, so I cheated to Kerbin and de-orbited.