Nostalgia Challenge!

[Bioman222]

This is a challenge where you must build the way we did in .15, before the new fangled 2 meter parts and science stuff, and .625 meter parts.

Rules:

1. 1 meter parts only! (except for .625 parachutes)

2. Radial boosters and atachments not allowed! (except for radial decouplers)

3. Please refrain from use of giant SRB and NERVA. They are allowed, but for every 1 you have, you loose 1 point.

4. None of the new structural parts allowed. Docking ports are fine, but the beams, adapters, and the 6 way thing AREN'T.

5. No mods.

6. Pictures or it didn't happen.

7. Have fun!

Point system:

Accepting Challenge: +10

Orbit: +5

Mun orbit: +15

Minmus orbit: +25

Landing on one of Kerbin's moons: +45

Leving SOI: +30

Landing on planet: +50

Getting to outer system (beyond Dres): +50

Landing on outer planet/moon: +75

Returning: +5-100

Using .15 or lower: +10

SRB Mania! Style:

Rules:

Same as last, just use SRBs only! The use of giant SRBs is allowed with no penalties!

Scoring: Take the normal score and multiply by 2!

Once again, have fun!

LEADERBOARDS:

1.christheman200, 235 points.

2.OceanFire, 150 points.

3.EricKilla, 85 points (.15)

4.themaddogfred, 60 points.

5.Bioman222, 20 points

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SRB Mania! Leaderboards:

1. Ninety-Three, 270 points (And BTW, nicely done!)

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Edited May 31, 2013 by Bioman222

[Bioman222]

I made it to orbit and back for an example.

20 points.

Edited May 26, 2013 by Bioman222

[Francesco]

how can radial boosters not be allowed if radial decouplers are?

[Bioman222]

By radial boosters I mean these:

and that other little orange one.

[themaddogfred]

Here is my attempt:

My baby in the VAB. (16 Liquid Fuel Tanks, 3 Small SRBs, 1 Parachute, 10 struts, 6 Radial Decouplers, 1 ASAS, and 1 Command Pod)

Here she is on the launch pad with pilot Jonley Kerman

Liftoff! Jonley not looking too happy

Separation of Outer SRBs as Jonley looks off to the side for a Rice Krispy Treat.

Separation of Outer Liquid Boosters.

Suborbital! Jonley was not happy at this point. He passed out and Mission Control had to take over the orbital injection.

In orbit.

"Crew Moral is low. VERY very low..." ~Danny2462

De-Orbit Burn has been planned.

De-Orbit Burn success!

Separation of Orbital Booster stage (I could have gone to the Mun. Or at least I think).

(I forgot to take pics of Re-Entry. Sorry)

Here is Jonley on final approach to ground! Only about 22 km from KSC!

Ouch! R.I.P. Engine. You will be mi-Ah screw it! Jonley got home!

The End...(For Now... BUM BUM BUUUUM!)

15 points, please.

[Bioman222]

You recived 20 points.

10 for accepting challenge.

5 for orbit

5 for return

[Nalin_Airheart]

Challenge Accepted, I live in the 0.18.3 Demo so this will be a walk in the park. (Besides landing on other planets :C)

EDIT: After two hours of screwing around I have Jeb stuck on the Mun with a pod and a AV-8 just fluttering endlessly from 35KM-280KM.

Edited May 26, 2013 by Nalin_Airheart

[Markus Reese]

Oooh! I need to re-try my multimunar exploration with spaceplane lander, I believe that was yours that I aced or was that somebody elses

[Francesco]

I see. some time ago Jason Patterson built an Eve return ship using only 1.25m parts - and no docking ports, so he had to launch it and get it to Eve in a single piece

if he stops by, he's going to destroy all of our attempts and gain 9000 points

[themaddogfred]

I'm back, folks! This time: Jeb tries to go to the Mun.

Behold! A Mun rocket piloted by Jebediah Kerman!

Liftoff!

Ditching the SRBs. Jeb looks happy. I think...

Outer Boosters separated. Gravity Turn Commenced.

After some tinkering, the Mun Encounter has been set.

Forgot the ladder and the legs are too small. Sorry Jeb, only an orbit (Insert sad Jeb face here -->

We are in the SOI of the Mun. Preparing for orbital insertion.

Jeb: "Time for some postcards!".

*A couple orbits later* Return trajectory planned.

Jeb is going home now. Rescue crafts are on standby.

Ejecting lander stage over Kerbin. How beautiful it is.

"Look mommy, a meteor!"

Chute is out. Final decent in progress.

The End...

Next Time: An Actual Landing (possibly).

[christheman200]

My entry: http://imgur.com/a/2co7i#0

Too many pictures to put on this page, so I'm keeping it all on imgur.

I decided to take it all the way to Pol this time!

In total, I believe this is worth 170 points, plus whatever it is for returning, since it says 5-100, which makes no sense

10 for accepting

5 for orbit

30 for leaving SOI

50 for getting beyond Dres

75 for landing on an outer moon (Pol)

5-100 for returning

Thanks for taking a look!

[themaddogfred]

Better than I could ever do. My next attempt is a Mun Landing.

[themaddogfred]

Now the ACTUAL Mun Landing:

Here she is now. Modified and ready to land!

Jeb has waited VERY patiently to go. He's happy.

(SRB and outer Booster separation were taken, but no uploaded. Sorry)

Getting up to speed...

I'LL GET YOU EVENTUALLY!

Mun Encounter is a go!

And we will be landing shortly.

Set up is a go...

And now for landing.

Final Decent is a go.

HA, HAAA! SUCCESS!

One small step for Kerbals...

...one giant leap for Kerbal-kind!

Here is what the plaque read...

Smile !

Liftoff! Going home now!

Final Decent to Kerbin!

Going Home!

"Mommy, another Meteor!"

Parachute out!

Success!

The End...

...Possibly...

How many points?

[OceanFire]

Here's my attempt.

On the launch pad.

Booster separation just happened and the gravity turn is on going along nicely.

Almost into orbit.

Orbit achieved waiting for transfer window.

Starting transfer burn.

Transfer burn almost done and separation of transfer boosters.

Burn completed, and where out of sandwiches.

Aero-capture being planned and we found some pizza under the seat.

There is a gigantic green blob and Elwell has been told that it is indeed not a gigantic green tomato.

Aero-capture in progress and Elwell thinks "The gigantic tomato is eating me(him)"

Pol capture confirmed.

Coming down for landing.

As you can see Elwell has gone insane and is now smiling from ear to ear. However he still somehow landed in one piece and command are considering a rescue mission.

[Bioman222]

Very well done guys! Keep up the good work!

Oh, and a question was made (even though it was stated in a none-thoughtful manner)

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In total, I believe this is worth 170 points, plus whatever it is for returning, since it says 5-100, which makes no sense

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The reason I said 5-100 is because it would be worth alot more to return from Eeloo than from LKO.

[Ninety-Three]

That SRB Mania thing is a great idea. I took it as an excuse to do something very silly.

This is my ship. It's going to Duna. And back. Yes it's all solid.

I've written up the journey here. I wasn't really trying for max points, which would have probably involved visiting Minmus and the Mun in one trip, but I sure had fun.

[Bioman222]

Mother of Jeb, its... its... beautiful......

It is also 270 points!

[EricKilla]

Make a rocket that has the same (or similar) parts to a .15 rocket? Challenge accepted!

To begin our journey, we decided to go back. Back in TIME! To Kerbal Space Program v0.15, of course, because I just happen to have a copy lying around for reasons I have forgotten. Ahh, look at all those olds parts. Sweet, sweet nostalgia (though I don't miss my inexperience from those days). Armed with my new knowledge, I set off to construct a rocket that could make orbit, and hopefully make Munar orbit (and, if I was really lucky, actually land on the thing). Soon, after some tinkering around and resisting an urge to try and hug the old Mk1 pod, the SA-15A Jool was created, as part of the newly created "Laythe Program".

Just look at those old parts.

So, now that we had a rocket, we had places to go!

Alright, lookin' good! I wish my regular rockets flew this straight.

So, twice I had my second stage blow up my center stage and third stage, so I made some modifications, but then realized I hadn't gotten any screenshots of explodey goodness to share with y'all. So I went on another run with the original rocket... and it worked perfectly. Not gonna complain, but dangit, that was annoying.

Thank ALL that is holy, that darn saboteur of a stage is gone.

Because gravity...

Doin' real good, though Bob and Bill are uncertain.

We have orbit! Wewt!

Here's my final apoapsis before any Mun-transfer attempts.

Also, final periapsis at the same time.

We'll see if I get any further, but this is what I have so far. I'm not sure if this counts because I was using 0.15, but if it does count, so far I have netted a grand total of 15 points. If it doesn't, I'll recreate the rocket in 0.20, and just leave this for extra nostalgia.

Edited May 31, 2013 by EricKilla
Post polishing.

[EricKilla]

Alright so I did decide to carry on, so here we go.

To the Mun!!!

Well crap. Serves me right for not looking at the Map Screen.

F9 F9 F9 F9 F9

Better, though I did overshoot some, so I had to burn retro for a few seconds to correct.

Orbit!

It's so pretty, even Bill is happy.

Doing my final slowdown burn.

Frustratingly, I picked an area on the fringe of the light/dark sides, making it very difficult to land, especially without the IVA radar-altitude meter, and the area I picked was 1500m above sea level, so I really could have used it. Anyways, even more frustratingly, when I actually made it to the Mun's surface, the landing legs acted like springs, glitching around and flinging me back into the air, even when I was landing at speeds as low as 0.5 m/s. This led to a number of borked landings, the most notable of which follow:

The first time I experienced the spring-legs. I had to abort and re-attempt the landing two or so tries, and the last time, it just tipped over.

This was like the third time (When I approached at like 0.5 m/s). I was annoyed, so when it started bouncing I shut off the engine to see if it would just land. Unfortunately, after a few bounces, the lower half of my rocket blew up, and I had to do some mechanically assisted braking, resulting in the loss of my RCS tank, but they survived. I'm kinda annoyed right now, so I'm just gonna leave it here for now.

If it counts, I should have the original 15, plus 15 extra for the Munar orbit, and also another 45 for my Munar landing(s). Also, if you want to count my accidental SOI escape, you can add on an extra 30 points. So that's a total of 30 (just orbits), 75 (orbits and landing), or 105 (orbits, landing, and accidental SOI escape). I'll let you choose which total you want to acknowledge, though I hope you go with the 105. All told, not too shabby for a rocket I made in 15 minutes and had practically no expectations of success.

As an added extra, here's the Jool rocket in 0.20:

Also, you can view the imgur album here

Edited May 31, 2013 by EricKilla
Post Polishing, Extra Pic, Album Link

[EricKilla]

Ha ha! Success, only a wing and the engine missing! Dang spring legs.

[Bioman222]

Hey guys? Do you really want christheman to win? C'mon! You can do better then him!

[EricKilla]

Only place other than the Mun I can go to is Minmus. Oh, and landing on Minmus? With spring legs? Pfft, oh god please no.