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

[Orionkermin]

Finished the Apollo 8 (Whoops, that's 9) mission. I went ahead and redesigned my LEM and I'm MUCH happier with it.

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Edited July 6, 2014 by Orionkermin

[GusTurbo]

Testing my fairings in space:

And here's my prototype Mun base delivered by my Saturn V MLV 5-25S. Not pictured: the rovers that I used to assemble the base.

Unfortunately, I mounted the landing legs upside down (amateur mistake!), so the solar panels are actually on the wrong side. Hence, mounting the side module upside down. I didn't intend for the cantilevered design

Edited July 6, 2014 by GusTurbo

[Rune]

Hum. This could be a very good reason to dust of my Phoebus and see if I can make the AAP finally, and perhaps make the whole challenge work using puny Skippers as F-1 equivalents. Apollo 11-18 would be a breeze, since I would already (almost) max out those missions in points with the stuff I already have built and tested (I didn't include the subsatellite in the CSM, my bad).

Rune. Still, no promises. It is summer and I have Xenonauts installed. ^^'

[Guest]

I've been wanting to do something like this. Is it okay if I use Klockheed Martian Special Parts? It has some awesome structural stuff that's useful for engine clusters, cargo, etc.

Also are there any scorings for difficulty mods like life support and deadly re-entry?

Edited July 7, 2014 by Guest

[Death Engineering]

Death Engineering ARM-AAP Reboot - Final Entry

I've been humbled by the amazing replicraft on this thread! Wrapping up this challenge with a 'roid capture, Eve flyby, Skylab deployment and Minmus landing with Gemini-style craft. Thanks to GregroxMun for designing this challenge.

Program Summary

Step I

• Saturn IB
  
• Saturn V
  
• CSM
  
• LM
  

Step II

• Apollo 4: Unmanned flight of the Saturn V.
  
• Apollo 7: First manned flight of the CSM.
  
• Apollo 8: First manned Saturn V launch. Fly to the Mun's orbit, orbit 9-10 times, and come home. Must Use Free-Return Trajectory until in the Mun's SOI.
  
• Apollo 9: First Manned Flight of the LM. Take a Saturn V up with crew in the CM and have two crew transfer to the LM. Fly the LM, testing the Ascent and Descent Stage, and then dock back to the CSM, before flying home.
  
• Apollo 10: LM test in Munar orbit.
  
• 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
  

Step III: Apollo Applications Program

• MOLAB: Pressurized science lab to Munar surface
  
• Apollo 18 - 19: Apollo 18 aborted during ascent (F1 engine failure, crew recovered by LES). Apollo 19 Backup crew launch to MOLAB.
  
• Eve Flyby: Apollo 24 with science lab payload
  
• Skylab with LM/ATM
  

Step IV - Asteroid Redirect

• Capture Class "B" asteroid to Keosynchronous orbit
  

Goals

• Saturn Five uses 5 engines on the first stage, 5 engines on the second stage, and one engine on the third stage. +20
  
• Free-Return Trajectory until in Mun's SOI. +10
  
• Lander stored behind a fairing. +10
  
• Redirect Asteroid in Solar orbit. +10
  
• Redirect Asteroid using crew. +10
  
• Leave Descent Stage on Mun. +5
  
• Include ALSEP Science Package on Apollo 11-18 +5
  
• Include Lunar Rover on Apollo 11-18 +10
  
• Include Lunar Subsatellite on Apollo 11-18.+5
  
• Apollo 21 Mission to Minmus using Gemini hardware. +15
  
• Redirect Asteroid while in Solar Orbit. +10
  
• Redirect Asteroid with crew. +10
  
• Stock. +20 (Use only stock parts)
  
• Launch Escape System. +5
  
• Total: 145
  

Gemini/Cricket Mission delayed to Apollo 21 due to Apollo 18 mission failure and Apollo 20 MOLAB crew replacement

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[Orionkermin]

Ok here's Apollo 11. I want to do at least one more Apollo mission, but I want to bring a rover. I've always had a hard time designing good tiny rovers for landers, so this is a good chance to get some practice.

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@Death Engineering:

I like your skylab. It's somewhat similar to what I had been planning, although mine will likely be a bit smaller.

[The Jedi Master]

Just gonna tag this for later.

[Whirligig Girl]

What I've seen here is truly an epic win for the "Apollo" Programs of the KSP Community.

[Orionkermin]

Some of the highlights of my Kerpollo 14 mission. (Ongoing) It might disqualify me, but I took advantage of KAS for this mission.

From left to right/top to bottom:

-Deploying the subsatellite

-Assembling the rover

-Deployment and assembly of the ALSEP package

-Alan kermin took advantage of KAS and smuggled a soccer ball on board the LEM. The pair took some time to make some experiments.

When i get some time to organize my photos more, I'll add them to my album.

[admiral9347]

wow these rockets are as close to the real thing as they can get! very nice rockets their.

[PlonioFludrasco]

Here's my Phase 1 entry!!

http://imgur.com/a/yizog#0

If you need more pics or specification, just ask!

Soon I'll submit for subsequent phases.

[Whirligig Girl]

Great, AND It's Apollo 11's liftoff date!

My Apollo Redirect Mission save was deleted, so I am just using the FASA Saturn V instead.

[Nicholander]

So... any new submissions or anything?

[bs1110101]

I'm doing it in 6.4 scale kerbin, and kinda an alternate version because of it.

Saturn 1

Too small to bother with.

Saturn C-2

Too small and too huge at the same time, fights and loses a battle to keep TWR > 1.

Saturn C-3

Finally works! And with 2.8 km/s left, so enough for a munar flyby or to dock with something in more or less any orbit.

I have now made a tweakscale.cfg for the FASA apollo engines, letting me scale them to useful size and re-engine my rockets and scale parts up to 10 meters, making this challenge more doable, if somewhat dwarfing to most other entries.

The rest of it will continue in the next post, as this one is kinda huge now.

Edited September 4, 2014 by bs1110101

[bs1110101]

Reegenined C-3

LEM "test" Fuel flow not working for lower stage, needs a bigger rocket unless i want to launch it empty/use all its fuel getting to orbit.

The Munar program call a plumber and try to work out how to lift the their lander into orbit, meanwhile, the Minmus program retrofit a Saturn C-3 with a S-IVB, then stretch the first stage and add SRBs derived from the Titan program. They plan to use it to loft a lighter CSM and a very light lander to orbit.

It works, though the stage is empty, the plan is to refuel it then reuse it for TMI.

The refueling ship is an S-IVB made to be dockable, the problem is that it flies like a cow, as does the main ship.

After exhausting all other options, the CSM dumps all it's fuel to the S-IVb with the lander on it, then detaches and flies to the refueling ship.

Ok, this might stop now because save problems.

Edited September 5, 2014 by bs1110101

[stratochief66]

My first sizable post. I hope to showcase my full collection of Saturn 5 and IB MLV hardware, but I will start with my S1B launch. Here, we are testing a partially fuelled Apollo CSM, entering a Medium Earth Orbit and re-entering at an elevated velocity. In reviewing the Apollo missions as flown, this seems to be a combination of the unmanned Apollo 4 launch, re-entering at high speeds to test the heat shield, and the Apollo 11 manned shakedown of the CSM in earth orbit.

I haven't seen many Challenge responses making use of the excellent hardware found in FASA, so I thought I would give it a shot. I have spent a lot of time tweaking and building hardware in the FASA mold, and I just really love the look of the hardware.

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Please let me know what you think. If you love or dislike the FASA hardware. Also, I am a numbers monkey, so as such, I will come back and edit this post with some highlight factoids about this mission, such as the max endured G forces at Centre Engine Cutoff and others.

Also, please let me know what you think about the look with the data overlays. Personally, I would love to glimpse a bit more of the detail of what is going on behind creating the images when i see people's albums, so I kept the overlays in my pictures so people get a more full picture of what is happening in each of them.

Thanks!

Edited September 21, 2014 by stratochief66

[Whirligig Girl]

That's great! I'd forgotten about this thread! Ironically I think having a thread stickied makes it more likely to be ignored

[stratochief66]

Here, I launch a fully lunar capable Saturn 5 to the surface of the moon and back. The closest real missions would probably be the Apollo 11 or Apollo 12 flights.

I do not show off the lift generator abilities of my Apollo capsule in the pictures, but I certainly make use of them to force a water landing. Sometime I will have to share a video of my decent and the code I borrowed from a Soyuz mod in order to better emulate the actual Apollo capsule.

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I hope you enjoy. Past here, I intent to show off the power of my modified Apollo CM, as well as my supersized garage of Saturn MLV and Nova rocketry.

Here is an example of my Saturn V 1A MLV, employing more than the usual number of first and second stage engines.

[MajorLeaugeRocketScience]

Any updates here?

[Bev7787]

Loved the old one, now to do it in RSS!

[MajorLeaugeRocketScience]

I wanna do a full stock (other than procedural fairings) on this. An extra challenge!

[Xeldrak]

Actually I think this is the current version of the threat. Same OP, almost one year younger.