Tiny Space Program

[Nazalassa]

Science! Mk7 — 4th flight (part 2)

 

Bye Mun!
 

Hello Kerbin.
 

I had to make three high-atmo passes before properly reentring.
 

Here we go...
 

First Try^TM
 

Look at all that Science!
 

Let's research the refineries. We need these for our future refuel bases!

Next, we'll find a good place for a mining base — somewhere on Minmus where there is plenty of Ore.

[Nazalassa]

ScanSat Mk1

Let's scan Minmus!

A mysterious payload is delivered to Space by a simple rocket. What is it?
 

It's a Scanning Satellite!
 

On its way to Minmus, the game starts to get extremely problematic

so I needed to do one or two other burns to get a true Mintmus encounter.
 

Finally, after all these physics problems, we are in Minmus orbit.
 

Now that our orbit is a polar orbit...
 

Minmus has a new paint job!
 

Perfect — there's plenty of ore on a great flat!

We then have to scout the area more precisely to determine where exactly is the better Ore concentration.

[Nazalassa]

Scanner Mk1

 

Yet another rocket.
 

Seems to be good...
 

...and AGAIN! Physics issues!!
How can you play with these?
 

However, we can still go to Minmus.
 

Here's the cargo: two rovers! They each have a surface scanner.
 

First rover deployment (?)
 

Second rover.
Roll roll roll ...
 

Hey look! It's a Spark from the landing stage!
 

Ore concentration: 13.75%

That's good enough for a base!

 

Back to Tracking Station. There's too much debris!

 Can you tell me what this is?

[Nazalassa]

Science! Rover Mk2

I built a pretty good Minmus outpost but haven't taken screenshots, so... Never mind.

To launch it to Minmus, we need those 3.75m parts (yes, this isn't Tiny!) but we lack the Science!

Small rover that has every possible (researched) experiment.
 

Oops.
 

Each biome gave at least 30 Science! if I have visited it with a prior Science! Rover, or even more if I haven't!

The rover went on:

Runway ; SPH ; SPH Main Building ; Mission control ; VAB ; VAB Main Building ; Crawlerway ; Shores ; VAB South Complex ; KSC ; Tracking Station ; Tracking Station Hub ; Tracking Station Dish North ; Tracking Station Dish East ; Tracking Station Dish South ; R&D.

Which is 16 biomes!
 

Yes, for some unknown reason the dishes of the Tracking Station are scientifically interesting.
 

And here's the Sci— WHAT?
That's even more than expected!!

[Nazalassa]

Mintmus Minty Flats

Finally, we have the tech required to launch our outpost to Minmus!

Plenty of 3.75m and 2.5m parts here...
 

We're in orbit! Wait, what's this base? It's weird!
 

During the Minmus transfer, AGAIN! This "orbit reduction" bug happens every time I want to get to Minmus! I had to waste fuel raising the AP to get again, my Minmus encounter.
 

We're finally there.

Well, I put too much ∆v in this rocket... I always put too much ∆v.
 

I detached the base
 

And landed it.
 

Then, for some reason this happened.
F9 !

Now, what is THAT base? I mean, it's just a mess and nothing will work.

Well...

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Setting up Mintmus Minty Flats

This is a kit (like that stuff from IKEA)

Due to some problematic "root part issues" I had to disassemble the whole base. Before that I'll just use mining to fill my tanks with 4,000 uits of LF, and then the contract's done.

Spoiler

KSP, please explain me.

And now half the radiators "crashed into terrain" and all the excavator "exploded due to overheating" once detached. I don't know why.
 

Small base (Tifel and Lanler have grouped all the fuel tanks together)
 

Then I got a not-so-small problem: when a Kerbal boarded the capsule, its body didn't! Now the ladder is blocked. I didn't know how to solve this, as I couldn't exit or switch to anything beyond 20m. So I strapped the external seat to the big booster and then went far away (Bervey left the seat just after the launch). I came back, and the bodies have disappeared. Then, upon boarding, same thing happened. I checked:

Usually it says that "the Kerbal has crashed" AND that "the Kerbal was killed". I only got "the Kerbal has crashed".
 

Anyways, I wasn't able to exit this, I was held hostage by the game!

Just kidding, I can force-quit the game.

And that's exactly what I've done.

When I relaunched it and went to the base:

It hasn't changed that much! I only lost half a hour of work, no more.
 

And here's the base, almost finished. I'll send a mission with excavators, (empty) fuel tanks and radiators to complete it one of these days.

[Nazalassa]

Damn the screenshots are broken...

Oh no, I'll have to redo them all