Has anyone ever made a saturn V like rocket with vanilla parts?

[mattig89ch]

Hello all,

I was wondering if anyone ever made a saturn 5 like rocket with the vanilla parts?

Even better if they did it with 0.21 parts.

[Jm419]

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/34764-Earth-V-An-Apollo-Style-Rocket?highlight=earth+v

[Umlüx]

i made one for my apollo-ish mission

http://www.umluex.at/index.php/2013/06/26/ksp-apollo-11-recreation/

[Moon Goddess]

It's impossible to make a true Saturn 5 with stock parts due to the lower states not having big enough diameter, but some people have made some nice ones with extra tanks attached radially.

[mushroomman]

I don't think you can get much better than this one.

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/28073-Now-100-more-X-in-its-name!-Munbug-IX-Saturn-V-Apollo-CSM-Lander-Buggy-ALSEP

Though it does use a lot of parts unfortunately.

[DisarmingBaton5]

I don't think you can get much better than this one.

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/28073-Now-100-more-X-in-its-name!-Munbug-IX-Saturn-V-Apollo-CSM-Lander-Buggy-ALSEP

Beat me to it.

[Motokid600]

Even with mods the S5 is hard to make. Well..not make, but perform. Rockets damn near wobble to death. Kinda takes the fun out of it..

[wolfedg]

This is the closest I've come up with. It isn't very similar visually but functions similarly with a csm and lem that uses lunar orbit rendezvous. I have flown 5 sucessful munar missions with it.

[Brotoro]

My Pseudo Saturn V is not supposed to LOOK like a Saturn V, but is supposed to work like one.

Full mission report here.

[Necandi Brasil]

They have a great tutorial on the Kerbal wiki about the Apollo landing, you should check it out

http://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Tutorial:_Apollo_11

[HeadHunter67]

Do they have a craft file of the rocket from that tutorial? I'd happily try building it myself if the construction system in this game weren't so damn infuriating at times. I remember in the Sims how it used to love putting doors in the wrong orientation or backwards... the VAB does this with radial symmetry. The parts wind up at an off angle, or too close to the center object. Or if you have to do 2 pairs of 2x symmetry around a rocket, one side will be a little higher or lower than the other... then, when it's time to strut and you accidentally click the object below it and undo all that work by misaligning it...

I apologize for digressing, but I can't imagine I'd be able to actually construct that as intended because of all that.

[zarakon]

Do they have a craft file of the rocket from that tutorial? I'd happily try building it myself if the construction system in this game weren't so damn infuriating at times. I remember in the Sims how it used to love putting doors in the wrong orientation or backwards... the VAB does this with radial symmetry. The parts wind up at an off angle, or too close to the center object. Or if you have to do 2 pairs of 2x symmetry around a rocket, one side will be a little higher or lower than the other... then, when it's time to strut and you accidentally click the object below it and undo all that work by misaligning it...

I apologize for digressing, but I can't imagine I'd be able to actually construct that as intended because of all that.

Look for the Editor Tools plugin. It lets you enable Vertical Snap in the VAB so all your parts can be at the same height, among other cool features

actually here it is: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/38768-0-21-Editor-Extensions-v0-5-24-July-%28EdTools-Editor-Tools-replacement

[HeadHunter67]

A thousand thanks to you - that sounds like exactly what I needed! Have some rep, good sir.

So I've tried out Editor Extensions and honestly, the only feature I like so far is the vertical snap. It completely hoses traditional KSP symmetry and angle snap, unless I'm just not understanding something.

Edited August 2, 2013 by HeadHunter67