Base-in-a-Box: A single-launch base on Minmus - with FLAIR

[Timbo]

I like Minmus for bases because there are nice flat frozen seas on which to build -- and the light gravity makes landing big things easy. So I decided to see if I could send a nice big base there in one launch. Well, technically it's just the core of a base, but it's BIG. Other sections will follow: housing, science, garage & rovers, and much, much more. Somehow, I managed to forget to take a screenshot of the landed base before I sent the condo complex, so the final shot includes the four stacks of hitchhiker modules that was sent AFTER the base, in a different launch.

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The other thing is that I cracked up the landing in a big way - the entire base tumbled several times but somehow it miraculously did not break anything. My horizontal speed was very high as I touched down, but by that point it was too late to try and fix it so I thought I'd just go ahead and land and watch it explode spectacularly -- but it survived instead! I thought that was so cool so I didn't bother re-doing the landing. And most importantly, I was recording it. The beginning is pretty cool, as the fairings open up and you see the base emerge and unfold. After that, jump ahead to the 7:15 minute mark where it "lands" and watch the fun.

I will post the additional base modules as they arrive. Thanks for looking!

[HafCoJoe]

I approve of this. xD Make an empire state building in a box or something this is too awesome.

[Castille7]

Really cool and funny at the same time! it seems at the time you needed that section to unfold it wasn't then finally it came loose!...lol at the end very will done!

[CavemanNinja]

Oh, this is so very Kerbal. Good work!

[Jett_Quasar]

You got the beginnings of a space city there... and that landing in the video - superb! LOL Jeb would be proud

JR

Edited August 19, 2014 by Jolly_Roger

[Commander Zoom]

Nice backflip. And somersault.

[Timbo]

Kerbals gotta have a place to live, right? Room for 48, plus a pool table in the Cupola

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Edited August 22, 2014 by Timbo

[JDCollie]

That is the most wibbly wobbly base I have ever seen, and it was awesome.

[Jett_Quasar]

Dude that could be in the how to land ginormous rovers section...

JR

[Timbo]

I felt the need for some on-surface construction capability! This uses sliding gantries to move left/right and forward/back. Good for lifting, moving, and connecting stuff. Maybe.

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[Timbo]

All that stuff's gonna need power. One point twenty-one Gigawatts, to be precise!

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Video showing deployment

Great Scott! One point twenty-one Gigawatts!