Will this game ever let me go! :(

[HansBlix]

Afternoon all!

So helped someone with an Apollo style rocket, and KSP once again sucked away 3 days of my life!

Decided to redo my Kapollo mission but with a greater degree of accuracy. Worked better than i ever imagined, with a rocket that is in all respects as close as the real thing as i could get (only thing that still requires work is the lander which currently only seats 1 instead of 2 kerbanauts and which needs more work to look like the RL lander). By pure chance, happened to land within 8km of the Neil Armstrong memorial. Wasn't until i was looking on kerbal maps for interesting features to check out that i noticed.

Specs for those interested...

Launch Weight: 491,570kg

Launch Part Count: 251

Launch Delta V: Around 7000, although Engineer may be off somewhat due to some funky designs to get it to work.

1st Stage: 5 - Bearcat Engines.

2nd Stage: 5 - J2-X Rockets encased in a 5M procedural fairing

3rd Stage: 1 - J2-X Rocket, enough Delta V to do Munar Intercept burn and circularization. Engines encased in a 3.75m-5M procedural fairing

CM: 3 man CM as close as possible to real dimensions plus has escape tower and CM cover.

LM: 2 stage just like the real thing, and includes 2 mun buggy's (couldn't balance a single one out) but only room for 1 kerbal. Fits in a 3.75m tapered to 2.5M procedural fairing.

See below mission pics.

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Big ups to Squad and all the awesome modders, in particular the authors of the following mods without which this would not have been possible:

KW Rocketry

Nova Punch

American Pack

Mechjeb

Kerbal Engineer

Procedural Fairings

I dun wanna go back to work!!!

Hans.

[TicTacToe!]

Wow, truly fantastic work. It never ceases to amaze me what you can do in KSP with the good mods, inspiring flight!

[SkyRender]

Now do an all-stock variation, just to show you can.

[KrisM]

It will never let you go. I'm building a modest PC just to play it again since my laptop gets all sorts of hot running KSP, and I don't want to obliterate it's poor CPU (lol, and 20 minutes of play turns it's 9+ hour battery life into 1.5 or so >.> )

[Galane]

Will this game ever let me go!

No - we will not let you go - let him go

We will not let you go - let him go

We will not let you go - let me go

Will not let you go - let me go (never)

Never let you go - let me go

Never let me go - ooo

No, no, no, no, no, no, no -

Someone needs to do a KSP themed filk of Bohemian Rhapsody.