Apollo Redirect Mission (A Beyond Apollo Reboot) EPIC STICKY EDITION

[GusTurbo]

Construction progress:

I've used the same S-IVB subassembly, for accuracy and because I am lazy.

Edited June 27, 2014 by GusTurbo

[Death Engineering]

Death Engineering ARM-AAP Reboot - Entry III

Step II Complete:

• Apollo 11: First Munar Landing. ALSEP and Munar Sub satellites deployed
  
• Apollo 12 - 14: Apollo 11 reference mission profile (G/H)
  
• Apollo 15 - 18: Apollo "J" mission profile
  

Apollo XI closing in on landing site

Apollo XV Site

Munar Sub Satellite Deployment

Apollo XI - XVIII with Hardware Catalog

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[WooDzor]

^^ That Mun Lander is awesome, it makes that ugly two man Mun lander can look good!

[Death Engineering]

^^ That Mun Lander is awesome, it makes that ugly two man Mun lander can look good!

Heh thanks. And it actually flies pretty good, too! The replicraft rockets on this thread are rather impressive.. so instead of trying to emulate appearance with the lifters, I've been aiming to emulate function. These are my first applications of the SLS parts and I've had to dial back the max thrust of the SLS parts substantially - those engines are crazy-powerful!

[GusTurbo]

GusTurbo -- Entry I

Step 1:

Saturn IB and Saturn V

CSM

LEM

Step 2

Apollo 4 Mission

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Points Tally: 50

- Saturn Five uses 5 engines on the first stage, 5 engines on the second stage, and one engine on the third stage. +15 (S-IC uses 10 Mainsails, due to weight, so I've deducted points accordingly)

- Lander stored behind a fairing. +10

- Stock. +20 (Use only stock parts)

- Launch Escape System. +5

Edited June 28, 2014 by GusTurbo

[Death Engineering]

Death Engineering ARM-AAP Reboot - Entry IV

Step 3: Apollo Applications Program

• Apollo XVIII-IXX
  
• MOLAB
  

Saturn MLV launching MOLAB

MOLAB with Apollo IXX

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[GusTurbo]

Saturn MLV 5-25S

[Whirligig Girl]

WOW. How'd you cluster together all those boosters?

[sal_vager]

Great challenge Gregox, you're stickied for July

[GusTurbo]

WOW. How'd you cluster together all those boosters?

Congrats on the featured thread!

To make the clustered boosters I just radially mounted large SRBs around a central one. The trick was making a subassembly that was radially attachable. To do that, I started with a cubic strut as my root part, then attached a few more to that. I then radially attached a single booster to the end, then added the other boosters around that. Finally, I attached the nose cone on top.

[Whirligig Girl]

*Sits down calmly after the "I'm Awesome" dance* This is an honor, Mr. Vager.

[GusTurbo]

Here's an interesting concept that might fit well into this challenge:

http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/satint05.htm

It's basically a replacement for the Saturn IB that uses the 260 inch SRBs that I used for my MLV as the 1st stage.

Edited July 4, 2014 by GusTurbo

[WooDzor]

I won't try my shuttle.. but I think I am still sober enough to mess around with that

[Whirligig Girl]

here's an interesting concept that might fit well into this challenge:

http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/satint05.htm

http://i.imgur.com/n7egyuo.gif

it's basically a replacement for the saturn ib that uses the 260 inch srbs that i used for my mlv as the 1st stage.

DO IT! YESSSS!

If you can find evidence that a concept for a saturn/apollo vehicle was written down as a feasible plan during the 1960s-1970s, Do it.

[GusTurbo]

I like it because it seems like a natural extension of my booster development. I'll post it when I complete it.

[WooDzor]

Too late .. trust me it's scary

had to add some extra reaction wheels.. couldn't get the gravity turn.. just banged straight up, caught fire etc

[WooDzor]

And there's something seriously wrong with the 'new' big de-couplers.. Anybody else has trouble with them? Either they don't or they do.. but your COG ends up somewhere in between your ship and your decoupled part.. :/

* made it work!

the trail of 17 boosters

yup that fast . Definitely saves some parts and makes a lot of noise! WooDzor approves

Edited July 4, 2014 by WooDzor

[Majorjim!]

And there's something seriously wrong with the 'new' big de-couplers.. Anybody else has trouble with them? Either they don't or they do.. but your COG ends up somewhere in between your ship and your decoupled part.. :/

Yeah don't use them ever! Too much trouble.

Oh and well done for getting skickied!

Great thread! Great crafts! Great balls of fire!

[Orionkermin]

Hey, thought I'd take a shot at participating. I'm not really going for exact replicas or trying to win, I'm just having some fun learning about the Apollo program.

I've got a Saturn-V, Saturn-1B, the CSM, and the LEM that I'll be using.

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I've got the basic crafts built, I'll start putting missions together ASAP and add them to this album.

EDIT: I added Apollo 4 and 7

Edited July 5, 2014 by Orionkermin

[Whirligig Girl]

I really like the use of your HGR parts even where the Stock Extension would be the easier choice.

[John FX]

I don`t think I qualify for the rules as I have used stretchy tanks, procedural fairings and realchutes but apart from that It`s stock. I also use some graphical mods and other mods that don`t affect physics or parts.

I`d like to show it anyway.

Here is an apollo mission

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Here are some lander images (lander is 100% stock)

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And here is an experimental design where stage 1 has been replaced by jet engines

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Here is the escape system in action, note the protective shield over the command pod

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It does have a rover but I`m currently designing a better one (without a clipping bug which the older one has)

Edited July 6, 2014 by John FX

[Whirligig Girl]

Well the Stretchy parts make it a minus 75 points unless you are using RSS or 6.4:1 Kerbin.

[John FX]

Well the Stretchy parts make it a minus 75 points unless you are using RSS or 6.4:1 Kerbin.

Oh, I didn`t really look at the rules, just the allowed mods, I`ll have a look and see what I scored. I`ll edit this post.

I got 72 so my score is -3. I`d have a higher score by not entering, hehe.

Edited July 5, 2014 by John FX

[Orionkermin]

I really like the use of your HGR parts even where the Stock Extension would be the easier choice.

I'm not that happy with my current LEM design. Would it be against the rules to do a redesign at this point? It would still be similar but I'd like to make it look better.

Edited July 5, 2014 by Orionkermin

[Whirligig Girl]

And there's something seriously wrong with the 'new' big de-couplers.. Anybody else has trouble with them? Either they don't or they do.. but your COG ends up somewhere in between your ship and your decoupled part.. :/

* made it work!

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9346020/screenshot792.png

the trail of 17 boosters

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yup that fast . Definitely saves some parts and makes a lot of noise! WooDzor approves

The decoupler can be fixed by making the physics singificance = 0 (on) in the part config file.