The Long List of Excuses: A Career Mode AAR

[The Error]

Given my apparent inability to hit F1, this may not have as many pictures as I would like.

MOHO I

We sat on the launchpad and gathered samples. It's amazing what the R&D boys learned from that.

MOHO II: Long Term in Space

The bosses decided to send Bob up. He's in a high orbit now, and apparently is quite happy up there, as long as Jeb doesn't come up to say hi.

EVE I: Deep Space Mission

The..slightly over-enthused pilot Geofing, ah, volunteered for this mission. We're firing a rocket Kerbin retrograde and hoping we hit solar orbit.

This is what he launched with.

And after a few staging errors careful maneuvers, he ended up heading out at some speed:

And ended up in orbit.

However, due to some communications mixups, he was left without an antenna to report home. Being the Kerbal he is, he decided to use his remaining fuel at perehelion to gain as much altitude as he could, and make some observations.

[Will update]

After sixteen days in orbit, Bob was running low on snacks, and decided to deorbit. He set his landing target as "water", and prepared to descend.

After deorbiting, he contacted KSC, informed them of his trajectory, and settled in for the ride. Returning with him, he hoped, was a fair amount of SCIENCE with which we could advance Kerbalkind.

After re-entry, he deployed his parachute:

And descended to a gentle landing.

Edited January 16, 2014 by The Error

[Space Peanut]

nice work! one of the cool things about career mode is how some peoples experience in the game outstrips their tech level ingame hence crazy ambitious goals. That said I have read that there were plans for venus and mars manned flybys back in our day that never made the cut. Technically possible but the engineers just couldn't sell it to the people who would have to live in the command module for several months. thankfully Kerbals don't complain!!!!!

[The Error]

Yeah. Well, Geofing was passing Eve as Bob came home, so I'll post his helio-slingshot up soon.

Next up: Mun, Minmus, or Duna? I shall allow the reader(s?) to decide.

For those interested, I am using the NovaPunch modpack for .23.

EDIT: Well, Geofing's apoapsis is now beyond Duna. No encounters, so he's been relegated to long-term observation duty.

Edited January 17, 2014 by The Error