9:32 Eastern Daylight Time. (EpicFailure Edition)

[Whirligig Girl]

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Here yo go! Edited July 20, 2014 by GregroxMun

[Whirligig Girl]

Will be updating this page with every major event! Transmunar Injection is next, in about an hour and a half. (Exactly 11 o'clock) (Exactly 11:11)

Edited July 16, 2014 by GregroxMun

[Bobbydylan]

Nice, keep it up.

[Whirligig Girl]

EDIT: Removed.

Edited July 16, 2014 by GregroxMun
Incorrect Time.

[Whirligig Girl]

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Transmunar Injection

[Taki117]

If you Don't mind my asking, what mods are you using?

[Cashen]

For extra realism, you should totally aim for a retrograde orbit around Mun.

[Whirligig Girl]

Does anyone know when the Midcourse correction took place? EDIT: Never mind, it took place on day two.

Edited July 16, 2014 by GregroxMun

[Whirligig Girl]

For extra realism, you should totally aim for a retrograde orbit around Mun.

I will be going retrograde. I actually found out around 0.18 or so that if you want your Apollo Style craft to go around the Mun's backside for insertion, you have to go retrograde. I was confused at this, as I thought that surely they would have gone prograde.

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If you Don't mind my asking, what mods are you using?

Frizzank Aeronautics and Space Administration (FASA) mod.

[Taki117]

I will be going retrograde. I actually found out around 0.18 or so that if you want your Apollo Style craft to go around the Mun's backside for insertion, you have to go retrograde. I was confused at this, as I thought that surely they would have gone prograde.

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Frizzank Aeronautics and Space Administration (FASA) mod.

Cool, also

http://history.nasa.gov/ap11fj/05day2-mcc.htm

[Whirligig Girl]

Apollo11, you are go for Transposition and Docking!

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[mrBlaQ]

Twiiiiiiitch!

edit: Oh. I get it. you're timing your album updates with actual times of the original flight. CARRY ON.

Edited July 16, 2014 by mrBlaQ

[Whirligig Girl]

Featured on twitter!

[SirSock]

That's awesome! Might I ask how you put the lander module underneath that engine without the engine getting it's own fairing?

[Whirligig Girl]

FASA works that way. The FASA SPS doesn't have a fairing for the engine.

[Cashen]

I will be going retrograde. I actually found out around 0.18 or so that if you want your Apollo Style craft to go around the Mun's backside for insertion, you have to go retrograde. I was confused at this, as I thought that surely they would have gone prograde.

The reason they went retrograde was for the free return trajectory. Going prograde would put them at risk of a slingshot into solar orbit if the SPS failed, but a retrograde approach would throw them back towards Earth. It's also much easier for the TEI burn to be going retrograde.

[mythbusters844]

Wow! This is something awesome that you're doing! NASA's been posting Twitter updates of the mission, but this is truly epic! Subscribed! On a different subject, I haven't been checking on the FASA thread for updates on the Saturn V for a while now, but it looks nice!

[Whirligig Girl]

The reason they went retrograde was for the free return trajectory. Going prograde would put them at risk of a slingshot into solar orbit if the SPS failed, but a retrograde approach would throw them back towards Earth. It's also much easier for the TEI burn to be going retrograde.

Yeah, I eventually figured this out. I still couldn't replicate free-return trajectory, though.

[Cashen]

Yeah, I eventually figured this out. I still couldn't replicate free-return trajectory, though.

It's tricky to do, but it's possible. You have to fiddle with both the position and delta-V of your injection burn and it takes a little patience. I always go prograde in KSP though.

Are you going to have the S-IVB slingshot into solar orbit?

[Whirligig Girl]

It's tricky to do, but it's possible. You have to fiddle with both the position and delta-V of your injection burn and it takes a little patience. I always go prograde in KSP though.

Are you going to have the S-IVB slingshot into solar orbit?

nah, I opted for a collision course, as shown early.

[Whirligig Girl]

T-25 minutes to Midcourse Correction Burn! Then I can finally go to sleep.

[Cashen]

nah, I opted for a collision course, as shown early.

Nice. When I did my first Mun missions, which were Apollo-style, I also left the upper stage on an impact course and had the spacecraft adjust away from said course after undocking. This is because I don't like debris.

In real life, Apollo 8 through 12 slingshot their upper stages into solar orbit, while 13-17 crashed it into the moon.

[Whirligig Girl]

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Here's the Midcourse correction. I hope you like it, cause I stayed up WAY too late tonight to post this at the exact right time.

[Cashen]

I don't post in other people's threads too often so I just want to say I'm enjoying your faithfulness to the real thing, and I'll be watching for the landing for sure!

[cdugas4]

This is an amazing work of art/history that you are doing! Thanks. It gives us who were born an entire generation after these events a sense of how special and awe inspiring they must have been.