Small British Steps | RSS/RO/RP-1

[jimmymcgoochie]

If you’re not going to hire any staff, at least do some facility upgrades with that extra money! You could upgrade Admin and get a third Program going for more income or upgrade R&D to increase the researcher cap, or possibly both with what you’ve got saved up.

I think you can go all the way to lunar landings if you get a bit creative with Gamma configs, specifically making them able to relight in flight, then there’s the RZ.20 which I used to power a crewed lunar lander (single stage design using small hypergolic thrusters for final descent and the RZ.20-Mk2 for everything else) and as an upper stage both on LVs and for interplanetary probes. Just because something didn’t happen IRL doesn’t mean it couldn’t have happened had the funding not dried up.

[seyMonsters]

GO FOR ORBIT!!! | Small British Steps | 15

 

 

[jimmymcgoochie]

“How could you possibly not return it?” Ask Laika.

Why no Val Cleaver when he gives big bonuses to keroxide?

 

[seyMonsters]

JULIET BROUGHT A CAMERA?? | Small British Steps | 16

 

 

[seyMonsters]

ENGINES ARE OVER RATED!! | Small British Steps | 17

 

 

[jimmymcgoochie]

You nearly flat-spun right down on top of the Space Centre, you can actually see it at about 1:30. The twitchy controls might be due to not using fine control mode (caps lock) which is almost always necessary to not rip your wins off with excessive G-forces in my experience.

The X-15 cockpit can be repainted.

Upgrade Admin to be able to take a few different satellite Programs at once or add one on top of crewed orbit and X-planes/lunar probes, the extra money is nice but beware of accepting too much too soon as I have in my current save, it leads to a mad rush to try and launch everything when the timers run out.

Why haven’t you hired Val Cleaver yet!? The one Brit in the entire game and with big bonuses to keroxide yet you’ve ignored him but hired Glushko?

[seyMonsters]

EVOLVING JAVELIN | Small British Steps | 18

 

 

[seyMonsters]

FAILURE!?!? | Small British Steps | 19

 

 

[jimmymcgoochie]

Early heat sink style heatshields are terrible and so far I’ve never managed an orbital return using one. Do yourself a favour and wait for ablative heatshields (Mercury-spec) which are vastly better. Also keep in mind that heatshields can transfer heat to the part behind so put something heat-resistant in there- a procedural nosecone is a good choice for that.

p.s. hire Val Cleaver  (I won’t stop until you do it)

Edited October 2, 2023 by jimmymcgoochie

[seyMonsters]

COOKING KOALA?!? | Small British Steps | 20

 

 

[jimmymcgoochie]

I’m surprised that re-entry worked, heatsink heatshields usually require much more aggressive re-entry with a negative periapsis.

You got 39.9 out of 40 because a little bit of it had already been done, probably on the advanced biological suborbital mission in the sounding rockets programs. When you first opened the experiment info it started counting down from about 23h 55m rather than 23h59m.

Spoiler

Hire Val Cleaver 

 

Edited October 3, 2023 by jimmymcgoochie

[seyMonsters]

FLY ME TO THE MOON.... | Small British Steps | 21

 

 

[jimmymcgoochie]

All that time spent in the Admin Building and still no Val Cleaver