The EZ Duna space plane - stock

[mcbmaestro]

Just wanted to share this Duna space tourism plane I made as it's by far my best technical achievement in the game, a space plane that carried a respectable 6 Kerbals, can actually land on Duna, fly back to Kerbin and land on the runway.

Stage one, almost 80,000 fuel, this is perhaps the scariest part as it's just huge and a bit unstable.

Stage two, basically a smaller version of the first stage to take me to orbit.

Stage 3, the main ship stage. With around 8000 fuel and 7 atomic thrusters, I could theoretically go further than Duna, but I like to play it safe with fuel. 7 landing struts allowed my first Duna shuttle to land on Ike as fuel use was higher than expected and Ike was a good test landing spot.

With about 2300 fuel left, the ship left Ike and headed home. In order to get maximum efficiency, the remaining fuel in the 7 side tanks was pumped to the central tanks and the side tanks were jettisoned.

Finally upon nearing the space port, the last rocket engine jettisons leaving a twin engine jet with 300 fuel. There was one nasty accident on it's first flight but all landings have been successful ever since.

btw, the parts are all stock. The only add-on was the beacon lights, this is a tourist thing after all.