A Luxury Orbital Hotel In A Single Launch

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The Longbeast Logistics Company presents a space station designed for living in style. Each of the 8 rooms has a cupola window, high power life support for comfort in any conditions, high bandwidth communications, and plenty of room for guests to stretch out. Two maintenance cabins allow hotel staff to be ready on hand, whether for room service or EVA repairs.

The LLC Space Hotel has been rated five stars by every guest ever to visit (except for Jeb, who complained that there weren't enough boosters)

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To fly:

1) set throttle at two notches below 100% so the mainsails don't overheat

2) set "control from here" on the pod just below the docking ports

3) turn on ASAS, fire engines

4) drop boosters when expended

5) begin gravity turn late, somewhere in 12-15km

6) don't drop the struts until you have almost finished your circularisation burn

7) if you need to fire the engines after the struts are gone, accelerate very slowly and carefully

8) action group 1 extends panels and antenna