Cheapest craft able to achieve orbit/esc velosity

[zweerify]

Looking forward onto future release, I thought it might be useful to learn how to build cheapest spacecraft, nor mightiest or fastest.

Maybe some of you find joyful to model cheap craft instead of Jeb-style 'I had whole 80km/s at 90 kilometers!'-craft. Or maybe not.

Anyway, we have here parts with prices on them. Why can\'t we count it as a potetial challenge?

So, your total prices for a spacejunk able to get into orbit and for a escape-ish piece o\' cheap junk. Vanilla parts and no comebacks, trash is not needed on Kerbin(Kearth, or wharever you like).

[foamyesque]

Pod, three liquid tanks, engine will do orbit and land. Pod, three liquid tanks, and two winglets will orbit and land much easier. A fourth tank, IIRC, gets you escape velocity.

[zweerify]

Ok, you just RUINED my idea. :\'(

Maybe some more complicated flight task can save it?

[Thunderbird]

add payload

im really looking forward to the Mun - i want to see people deploy a space station in a earth-moon L1 point, cheaply, and then getting back.... that will be slightly more complicated

[icefire]

There will be no L1 and L2 points if harvester uses the system he has described for multiple bodies.

[Thunderbird]

There will be no L1 and L2 points if harvester uses the system he has described for multiple bodies.

but but but...... awwww damn!

we NEED langrange points, theyre important!

[illectro]

Here\'s my video of the simplest ship to orbit/land.

Anyway it\'s kinda lame that they don\'t want to do proper N-Body mechanics, but maybe they\'ll add those in the future (I used to write code to do n-body solutions back when I was an astronomer and would be happy to provide some assistance)