Code-R Development Rockets

[Mephisto]

Ladies and gentlemen, here I present to you Code-R Development Rocket Series - The Shinkiro.

Mark 1 - All informations about this craft are currently Top Secret but its rumored that this rocket didnt even make it into space...

Mark 2 - First one in series capable of sustaining stable Kerbin orbit, too bad it didnt get anywhere further.

Mark 3 - Taking a lesson from previous version, scientists stated that adding another stage would allow rocket longer flights, but it was poorly designed and thus, rocket crashed. Hopefully crew survied.

Mark 4 - Better design, better piloting and even better flight plan allowed this rocket to reach the Mun, however something went wrong...

Some Screenshots of the Mark 4 flight :

Shinkiro Mark 4 on the Launchpad

Liftoff! It takes a lot of WSAD work in this stage...

Separation of SRBs

Entering orbit

Separation of first engine section

Orbit around Kerbin

Extending orbit to the Mun

And circulizing

A quick look at Kerbin

Getting closer...

Gotcha!

Entering orbit around the Mun

Mighty piece of rock...?

Descending a bit

And stabilizing...

Getting ready...

Jettisionning the cover

And separating empty fuel tank

Descending...

Jebediah : So guys, where\'s the brake?

Bob & Bill : *pokerface*

Jebediah : Kouston, we have a problem...

So close...

...and yet so far.

Mark 5 - First one that LANDED on Mun, it was kinda rough though... Command Pod survived but the rest of lander wasnt that lucky...

Mark 6- Reached Mun but it was moving too fast (horizontal), fell on its side and exploded

Mark 7 - Reached Mun, landed, and returned home in one piece! Mission Accomplished! But it still needs some work with stability in first few minutes of atmospheric flight...

Incomming!

Jettision of the cover

Descending...

TOUCHDOWN! 8)

And now, returning home!

Uh, wrong way...

Fixed!

Home!

Home sweet salt home

Mods used : A lot of them. (and few .cfg\'s got edited)

[Tim_Barrett]

Please please PLEASE don\'t tell me those are C7 micro fuel tanks... the ones that have a fuel to weight ratio of +700/1...

[Tiberion]

Its stock SAS, tim.

And C7 nerfed those micro-tanks like 3 releases ago, they\'re 200:1 like the stock tank now.

[SmiteZero]

With that many feet on the last one, if it had tipped over there would have been ...issues for you at KSC. 8)

Cool designs, though.

[Mephisto]

Well, those are C7 tanks, but I used them only becouse I couldnt find those microtanks from some miniaturization mod.. and they were edited to hold less fuel btw.