A L00ny No contract career

[Watermel00n]

Thanks @Superfluous J for the excellent challenge! Thread Below.

Here we go! But first, SELF IMPOSED RESTRICTIONS!

1. You cannot go to the Mun or Minmus with kerbals before Kerbals go interplanetary.

2. First interplanetary mission is a JOOL 5.

Anyways, here it is.

Part One: the grind begins

I start with a roller. Simple and easy(ish)

And another at the runway.

Tech Tree upgrades with Engineering 101 and Basic Rocketry.

And an easy 2 hammer launch.

Visiting space!

A failed roller

Science probe whee!

Suborbital rocket now with new science equipment!

Val takes the Orb 1 to space.

First Orbit!!!

EVA for science.

 

To be continued…

Edited January 2, 2022 by Watermel00n

[Superfluous J]

Welcome to the insanity! Way to make it more insane with those restrictions. I can't wait to see how you pull that off!

[Watermel00n]

Preview of the Jool 5 ship The Floor here is made out of Floor

[Superfluous J]

I foresee a lot of launches in your near future.

[Watermel00n]

i edited the post guidelines abit to say :

1. You cannot go to the Mun or Minmus with kerbals before Kerbals go interplanetary.

cause i went there with stayputniks, no sas

[Watermel00n]

Part 2: JEB NOOOOOOOOOO

To gather high space science, I launched Jeb in the underpowered Orb 2.

After raising the apoapsis to try to flyby the Mun, I ran out of fuel, and Jeb got out and pushed. Contrary to the title, Jeb survived aerobraking and landed safely.

I docked two rollers together.

Science probe COMEHEREMUN 1 was launched to the Mun.

Orbit achieved!

After escaping Mun orbit, I checked my Milestones. Pretty Good!

HOWEVER, the second Mun Probe, COMEHEREMUN 3 ran out of fuel attempting to land and smashed into the Mun. OOPS.

 

To be continued…

[Watermel00n]

Part 3:sciencesciencesciencesciencesciencesciencesciencesciencescience

The imaginatively named Mun Land 1 launches to the Mun.

Going suborbital

Landing without sas

… whoops. Never mind, we got the money. Yay

Mun Land 2 launches with 4 thumpers this time…

To minmus?

Not again!

After transmitting all the juicy science, I use the last of my fuel to put the probe in a suborbital trajectory to get space science. F

The Sun Probe™  goes out of Kerbin’s SOI for sun science.(not interplanetary)

Nice pic.

After some worrisome moments, the probe returns back!

Now, after getting more science, I am ready to assemble The Floor here is made out of Floor. First up is the core module.

 

To be continued…

[Vagrant203]

11 hours ago, Watermel00n said:

The Floor here is made out of Floor

That seems more like a name for a Kerbin science expedition, how did your Jool vessel end up with that name?

[Watermel00n]

The floor on jool is the same on kerbin, also made out of floor

[Vagrant203]

Can't argue with that logic.

[Watermel00n]

I will be taking a bit of a hiatus (minecraft and whatnot) so We'll Be Right Back!

[Watermel00n]

Will be back soon!

[Watermel00n]

Part 4: Core launch and other stuff

The floor here is made out of floor core section launches.

Reaching orbit. Everything went to plan…

Until I realised I couldn't transfer fuel because the R&D is still lvl 1. Now the core is just a fancy structural tube.

Bill and Jeb respectively dock with the core in the new Flyer Vehicle. (note, bill does not have a docking picture.)

 

Orbital Construction Time!

After OCT, one docking port was moved to the fuel tank, and a battery attached to it. The launch fins were moved to Jeb’s Flyer to save weight. The flyer was detached and Two of the four structs taken by bill to the core were used. Solar panels were salvaged and batteries were moved to the core.

Jeb’s flyer was returned to the surface.

An overpowered supply mission was launched, testing if eva constructed fuel lines could transfer fuel. (note, battery removed)

Core before impact

Supply ship after impact at 50 m/s

Turns out it can't, so tried using it as a missile to destroy one of the core’s fuel tanks. It barely damaged it. 

So I did the old trick, rocket surgery with a terrier from bill’s flyer. It worked!

To be continued…

[Watermel00n]

Sorry am more busy than ever now, will average one post a week, post coming soon

[Watermel00n]

Im bacc and ready to attacc!

Launch of a Fuelivery spacecraft.

 

[Watermel00n]

Orbital Construction

Launch of two Fuelivery Spacecraft minutes apart from each other.

Orbital maneuvers.

Moving everything to the mothership.

All tanks in position, more tanks will launch soon

You haven't seen my true Delta-V!

Spoiler

 

Just realized...

4 terriers have 345 isp, 240 kn.

1 poodle has 350 isp, 250 kn!

Just need to get 75 science...

[Akagi]

On 1/4/2022 at 1:21 PM, Vagrant203 said:

The Floor here is made out of Floor

Easily the best name EVER!!!

[Watermel00n]

Probe mission to visit the kerbin moons soon!

[Watermel00n]

*sigh* played too much minecraft today, forgot to make a post, new post next week

[Watermel00n]

Sorry everyone, in light of my new whirligig world yt series, my rediscovery story thingy, and my upcoming mod, i think that i may cancel this. On the other hand, today i have some time to revive this...

[Ooglak Kerman]

Oh Please Don't Explode!

[Watermel00n]

Yup. It has ended. But it still lives...

 

Edited May 1, 2022 by Watermel00n