Best Space Mission in KSP

[MrZayas1]

Hey everyone, this is a forum thread where you can post pictures of your rockets that makes you the most proud, even if it failed. To me I probably have to say my most proud mission was one to Minmus, even though i don't have any pictures of the mission or the rocket I will try to explain it best I can. It was a 4 staged multi-lander with 3 Mk 1 pods, and I brought it to land on minmus and collected about 900+ science from flying EVA on the face of it. I know people have done much better but I am extremely proud of how much fuel i managed to land with, i had about 4 minutes of burn left in my rocket and about 700 delta V left. If you want, feel free to post your best missions down in the comments below and thanks for sharing with me ;P

Edited January 9, 2014 by MrZayas1

[Javster]

Well done! I haven't actually landed any Kerbals anywhere in my career mode save.

[tntristan12]

My favorite craft is this: The Joolean II Munar Mission Package - my KSP version of the Saturn V. Just as with the Apollo missions, it brings the command module and lander in one unit, and once a trans-munar free return trajectory has been established the command module turns around and docks with the lander, before activating the CSM engine to capture itself in a retrograde orbit. The lander even has separate descent and ascent stages, so I can leave the lander base behind as a monument to my exploration!

I just think it looks so majestic sitting on the launchpad.

The "TMI" stage carries the lander and CSM to the Mun.

I'm particularly proud of how Apollo-like the CSM and lander both look.

Yes, that's a base below. This mission was actually very interesting, and I am going to provide more details on it in my dedicated mission thread when I get to that point in my career. I was basically using the Joolean II MMP to get my crew to the Munar mining base, since I couldn't really use my intended platform the COTS to do so since my refueling station in orbit currently doesn't have any fuel on board...

That actually segues into the other craft I'm really proud of - My Munar Keth-o-Hopper SSTO Kethane Tanker, which brings the Kethane mined from the base into low Munar orbit so it can rendezvous with a larger tanker that will send it all home. Instead of using the MMP ascent stage to rendezvous with the Joolean CSM, I sent it the other way into a prograde orbit to rendezvous with the Keth-o-Hopper that I'd left unmanned in orbit (I didn't want to send it up with crew because it was as yet untested and I didn't want to risk messing up any of the systems and then having to send a rescue mission up to bring the poor guy back home).

That's the ascent stage docked with my Keth-o-Hopper.

And that is my Keth-o-Hopper on the surface of the Mun. Big sucker, ain't it? The reason I'm so proud of it is I actually measured out perfectly how much fuel I would need to get it into orbit and back with a full load of fuel (by design I needed to be able to lift the amount that came out of my miner so that I could keep mining and optimize how much Kethane I get per each trip). As it turns out, with 16,000 units of Kethane to deliver, only about 6,000 actually get offloaded onto the tanker, which is perfectly fine. The rest goes to refueling the Keth-o-Hopper for the return trip back to the Munar surface.

I talk all about the mathematics behind designing an orbital fuel tanker in this thread here. It's interesting stuff!

Anyway, that's my favorite mission so far, and the two ships that to date I am the most proud of. I have some other honorable mentions that I may post on later!

Edited January 8, 2014 by tntristan12

[Spartwo]

When you could spam science I went on a first encounter mission with Ike,Duna,Minmus,and the Mun.I think I got over a thousand.