Difficult rescue mission

[Scarecrow88]

Recently I realised that of all the easter eggs in the game, I'd never been to 'Stonehenge' on Vall, though I have been to that particular moon. As it looks like one of the more interesting eggs in the game, I thought I'd set up a mission to go there and take a few snaps for posterity.

I pressed an old Duna ship in to service, as it had bags of delta V and would easily make the trip, though the parachutes on the lander would be a bit redundant for a landing on Vall. Launch from Kerbin was in two parts - Command module and insertion stage, and lander and habitation stage - which were docked together whilst in Orbit around Kerbin.

Transfer to the Jool system went swimmingly, and an elliptical orbit established around Vall. This was when the problem occurred. At this point, a staging event should have fired a decoupler to release the insertion stage, which basically consists of a jumbo fuel tank and two nuclear engines. Unfortunately, it fired but didn't separate. The Command module engine should have then been used to circularise the orbit around Vall, and when the mission was completed, used to bring everyone home. With a jumbo fuel tank still hanging off the back end of the craft, this is no longer an option, so the bods back at the space centre have got their thinking caps on to try and come up with a solution.

I'll add more as the situation develops.

[worir4]

Don't add more yet. I doubt many people would read it right now due to the hype. Wait till after!

BTW just wondering what are your crew called?