AstroEvada Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 INTRO Hello people of the internet and welcome to a new KSP forum series I am doing. This series will be a kerbalised take on the Apollo Program. After reading a whole host of space alternate histories, from e of pi's "Eyes Turned Skyward" featuring Apollo derivatives, to @TruthfulGnome's No Shortage of Dreams featuring his take on an alternate Skylab program, to @Talverd's Chasing Dreams starring an alternate, kerbalised Space Shuttle program with his own fleet of orbiters and combined with my own love of the Apollo Program and what it could've been, I thought why not start my own alternate history thread, starring my own, kerbalised take on the Apollo Program, or should I say....APHELION PROGRAM. Yeah I'm terrible at introductions, anyhow this thread will feature of a variety of screenshots and missions from the Aphelion program from 1964-1973, anyhow, hope you all enjoy :> And please, go check out all of the post I've mentioned above, not only have they inspired me to create this thread, but also are absolutely astonishing and are certainly worth your time. (SA-1 through 4 have been cut out as, to me at least, they were relatively boring though I do have a screenshot from SA-4, the final single stage flight of the Cronus I) MODLIST: Spoiler AlphaMensae's Modular Launch Pads Animated Decouplers B9 Part Switch Benjee10 Suits Bluedog Design Bureau Camera Tools continued Community Category Kit Community Resource Pack Conformal Decals Custom Pre Launch Checks Coatl Aerospace Deployable Engines Distant Object Enhancement DMModuleScienceAnimateGeneric Dock Rotate Environmental Visual Enhancements Redux Harmony 2 HullcamVDS Continued Kerbal Joint Reinforcement - Next Kerbal Konstructs KSRSS Kopernicus MechJeb 2 Milkyway Skybox - SpaceEngine Omega's Stockalike Structures PlanetShine (Default) Real Plume (Stock configs) Reentry Particle Effect Renewed Restock Restock + Waterfall (Core and Restock) TweakScale TUFX (Configs by @Pioneer_Steve) Trajectories Textures Unlimited Texture Replacer TantaresLV, Spacecraft and probes Simple Adjustable Fairings Sigma Dimensions SCANSat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstroEvada Posted July 30, 2022 Author Share Posted July 30, 2022 CA-5 "And in December, while I do not regard our mastery of space as anywhere near complete, while I recognize that there are still areas where we are behind – at least in one area, the size of the booster – this year I hope the United States will be ahead" With the first flights of the Cronus I successfully validating the first stages perfomance in flight, even having a water ballast detonate in high altitudes, it was time to test out the second stage. The C-IV with 6 RL-10 engines to support it's second stage on the fifth flight of the Cronus I: CA-5 Atop LC-34 stands the fifth Cronus I rocket, perparing for the first flight of it's C-IV stage. 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, we have ignition! 3, 2, 1, 0, commit...We have liftoff, CA-5 lifting off! The Cronus I rocket pierces the sky on its way to test the C-IV stage. For the first time in the Cronus I's history, the C-I from the C-IV. Four ullage motors further seperate the 2 stages and allows the fuel to be pushed towards the bottom, allowing the 6 RL-10 engines to ignite. The 6 RL-10 engines burst into life, burning liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen to place the rocket into a 130 x 1,231 kilometer orbit. The rocket stage continued to send a stream of telemetry data for about 3 days before losing contact, presumably due to running out of batteries. It's scheduled to peform an uncontrolled reentry over the Pacific Ocean. With the C-IV and C-I stage now sucessfully verified in flight, now came for the next series of test flights. A mockup Aphelion spacecraft, comprising of boilerplates Command and Service Modules, alongside real LES rockets will be used to test and verify the aerodynamics of the Aphelion spacecraft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlmondTheAstronaut Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 ngl I forgot about the Saturn I rocket. Glad this forum page reminded me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil_Bread402 Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 Seems interesting. Very curious on what happens and what doesn't happen in this AH. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstroEvada Posted August 20, 2022 Author Share Posted August 20, 2022 Sorry for unexpected hiatus, motivation has been real low as of late, hopefully a new post will come later this week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstroEvada Posted September 10, 2022 Author Share Posted September 10, 2022 I just realised that I deleted all screenshots of AC-101-105 soooo...god damn it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstroEvada Posted 12 hours ago Author Share Posted 12 hours ago May revive this, if KSRSS isn't being a kraken-face. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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