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Bill scored a goal on the Mun!


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Bill, Bob and a probe went on asteroid-catching..

The probe brought a class C asteroid safely into Kerbin orbit. Then it ran out of fuel..

So Bob went up there, with a larger craft intended to "pull asteroids", but it was discovered that most engines were pointing towards the asteroid, thus not generating enough effective thrust for "landing"... But he managed to take the asteroid into Mun orbit!

So later, Bill went up there with an even larger craft to attempt playing a game with the asteroid! He grabbed the asteroid and scored a goal on the Mun!

Take a look at the video:

unfortunately, after dropping the asteroid, the ship became unstable and he crashed... But I saved the game before, so I can have fun again and again! :)

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The craft was designed to have the engines be adjustable in thrust to account for the uneven distribution of weight from the asteroid. This is why there are four groups of engines, arranged perpendicularly. If the asteroid is heavier on the right, I can limit the thrust of engines on the left. same goes for front/backward.

I only did not take into account two things:

- once we drop the asteroid, it would be nice to revert to a setting of even thrusting! (solution might be to use an action group to shutdown the adjustable/appropriate engines)

- different thrusts consume different amounts of fuel, and there are fuel deposits above the engines that do not feed other deposits to make a god weight distribution once the top (main) deposits have drained.. (solution might be to place fuel deposits above the quad-adapters, or to use fuel lines)

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