Smapollo- A One-Man Apollo-Like Craft! (Ver.1) (WARNING: BIG IMAGES/IMAGE DUMP)

[FlandersNed]

This is my firstish craft submission (my first one got swallowed up in the Greatest-In-Koridai Forum Destruction of 2013): A Smallish version of the Apollo program in general terms.

What does this mean? Well, it follows the same staging cycle: First and second stage get the craft into a near-orbit, third stage finishes it and gets it to Mun insertion, the CSM brings it into Mun orbit while the munar lander lands and comes back up and finally the CSM returns home by itself. The CSM also does the forward-rotate-reverse-dock maneuver with the lander like the Apollo program.

However, it does not look like it 100%. The third stage does resemble it but the first and second do not.

Anyway, pictures!

The one below is my favourite:

The lander had 909 d-v when it landed, so I think it has enough to get itself back into Munar orbit to dock.

Here is a link to an album about it: http://imgur.com/a/VPAtc#0

And here is a download linky (NOTE: THE CRAFT FILE IS 278 PARTS. IT MAY BE KINDA SMALLISH IN SIZE BUT BIG IN PART COUNT): http://www./?dslu1rz3g5cc6jv

ABORT does what you expect it to do: it disengages the command pod from the rest of the craft and fires the seperatron engines. They have a high enough TWR to escape the first stage burning full throttle.

There is only one hotkey: 1. It either undocks the abort tower (if you have used it) or undocks it AND fires up the seperatrons (if you have not used it).

There are no major instructions to be had here. Just don't turn too fast when doing the gravity turn and don't wobble the third stage when seperating from it (you separate before you dock according to staging order; makes life easier for you and me).

If there is demand for it I will create a second edition with added features.

Hope you enjoy it!

Edited June 5, 2013 by FlandersNed

[oggylt]

nice mission, it looks perfectly scaled. If i wouldn't know that it is 1 man can i would say there's two inside

[FlandersNed]

nice mission, it looks perfectly scaled. If i wouldn't know that it is 1 man can i would say there's two inside

Yeah; I wanted to make a sort-of minimalist version of Apollo with a probe taking over the CSM while the pilot lands. Good to see that I managed to get that right