Retro Style Rocket

[Mephane]

Get the craft file here.

I have always been in love with this simple yet stylish rocket design, and finally wanted to recreate it in KSP.

Control groups:

1 = toggle rocket motor

2 = toggle landing lights

3 = toggle ladder

A few things you should know:

- The rocket only flies with the debug menu (Alt+F12) -> Infinite Fuel (optionally Infinite RCS). It was assembled without the debug menu, however.

- To properly control the ship, select the large probe core above the engine, and "control from here". Control from the lab module is upside down because I had to rotate it by 180°, otherwise Kerbals would appear upside down when the rocket is landed and they climb out of the door.

- To even have Kerbals inside, you need to add them manually to the lab module before launch. The rocket has no conventional pod.

- Atmospheric control is not ideal, but since the Skipper Engine is vastly overpowered for this small ship, just launch vertically and do your gravity turn very late.

Edited May 3, 2015 by Mephane

[Sargent890]

Cool. Looks just like the old cartoons and that kind of stuff.