First Mission Post - Apollo Inspired Munar Excursion Adventure with Craft file

[Wallygator]

Hello All,

First Mission Report post here.

Completed Career Mode a few times in the past 4 months. This game rocks!

So... to do what many others seem to have done as part of their KSP initiation I too have designed, tested and successfully completed an Apollo inspired mission. This was not intended to compete in any challenge and definitely NOT an attempt to build out a stock-alike or a look-alike Apollo-Saturn mockup. It was intended to keep the flavour, launch sequence highlights, and key mission elements in a easy enough format that they could be enjoyed and hopefully expanded so as to press on to Duna with the same basic architecture. Through this process I have come to greatly appreciate the efforts of all the other KSP players before me who have done much more complex attempts!

I've posted the craft file here... http://www./view/9x791bchquw6zxq you can examine it to see the action groups, etc. Feel free to make changes to match up with your play style as you see fit.

It includes the main launch stack the CM, MEM, LES, Rover and a Munar escape system. I've attempted to build a Munar equipment bay deployment system which better mimics a side panel stowage and deployment architecture. Be forewarned, it only works effectively when you target a level landing site! Pressing 7 blows the decouplers and drops the two equipment bays to the Munar surface (most of time!)

I hope I've edited the imgur album and inserted it correctly with mission comments embedded...

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...if there is problem I apologise and greatly appreciate any guidance. And finally, I would like to dedicate this to all the hundreds of thousands of everyday folks who in real life greatly contributed to Neil's first step.

Enjoy!

Wallygator

Edited March 20, 2014 by Wallygator
yet another spelling correction. Geez...

[Wallygator]

Sorry - Forgot to add that this is all Stock with no clipping.