Finally did it! Stock Eve return with single launch.

[quantumpion]

Took a lot of designing and time to get everything to work right. My first design was too fragile. The second was too inefficient. Once I realized I only needed a TWR of 1.3 to slowly push through the soupy atmosphere instead of trying to blast out with a TWR of 2.0, I had enough weight savings to make my final design work. Note the transfer craft has way too much delta-V because kerbal engineer froze up on me without me realizing it and it was stuck using atmospheric ISP for the nuclear engines. That caused the initial launch weight to be enormous (2.5 Gg) but it still launched fine. Better to have way too much delta-V than not enough anyways. It allowed me do direct to eve and back burns to save time anyway.

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Corrected craft with more reasonable delta-V transfer stage:

Edited February 10, 2014 by quantumpion

[Brotoro]

Holy Ginormous Launcher, Batman!!

Congrats.

[Geschosskopf]

Impressive

[Tex]

Very good! I can't even imagine taking off from Eve, I've just managed a one-way Duna lander so far XD