Lightweight Grand Tour

[Mesklin]

Let me introduce my Grand Tour travel in KSP universe with very light ship: start mass - 264t, start ship mass on LKO - only 40.1t (385 details), almost all landings in one universal ion lander (except Eve and Tylo, additional stage for Laythe). Travel route:

Kerbin, Mun, Minmus, Gilly, Eve, Moho, Ike, Dune, Laythe, Pol, Bop, Tylo, Vall, Eeloo, Dres, Kerbin.

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Craft version 2 is here: http://www./download/e1vny27b2854dds/Grand+Tour+mk2.craft

Corrections:

1. Repaired struts on Eve lander

2. Added more xenon for Eve transfer stage (planned route was - Kerbin, Mun, Minmus, Gilly, Eve, Moho, Ike, Dune, Dres, Laythe, Tylo, Vall, Bop, Pol, Eeloo, Kerbin)

3. Added ladder for Tylo lander

Edited June 21, 2014 by Mesklin

[Redshift OTF]

An amazing achievement! Well done. It would probably take all afternoon to look at the pictures alone!

[SpaceXray]

Simply amazing, better than maccollo's grand tour even

[ethericalAlchemist]

Could you put up the craft file?

[Cakeofruit]

what a big mission , very nice !!

i like your eve lander

[Mesklin]

Could you put up the craft file?

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[magnemoe]

Now I'm impressed, I did a grand tour myself with 100 ton from LKO and thought that was small. Bonus for landing with the pod.

However the Eve lander confuses me a bit, why does it have wings? I thought you would take off as a plane using ion engines and climb out of the worst of the atmosphere then disconnect the wings and ions and get into orbit with the accent stage.

One tips might be to launch this as a plane to reduce the pad weight a lot.

[Camaron]

Ions can't lift anything on Eve.

The wings probably helped hi accurately land at a high-altitude position, giving him less dense atmosphere to fight with on the way up.

[carazvan]

If you look at the albums the wings are to land on Eve without using up fuel. He ditches them and the rover wheels before starting the ascent back to orbit.

[Stratzenblitz75]

Impressive work! I like how you managed to perform a "grand tour" with such a small vessel. I especially enjoyed your Eve lander; using wings to land is an ingenious idea!

However, you may have some competition when it comes to the "lightest" grand tour...