Exploration of the Kerbin Moons

[Potatus]

It was a few weeks ago (Earth Time, not Kerbal Time), I made the Jool I, a craft that can reach Minmus with an adequate amount of fuel that might reach Duna (I haven't been there so I don't know, but it does have more than enough I would guess). I stuck on a 2 manned lander on the top and fired off. The rocket flew quite slow, but once it reaches the second part of the atmosphere (12km), it was like a cheetah on steroids. It blasted out the atmosphere quickly, the launch stage still had a bit of fuel left, so I used the remaining fuel to finish off the orbit, I detached, and flew the transfer stage into the SOI of the Mun, I was nervous. During the 2 years I've played KSP for, I failed multiple times trying to land on the moon. This time, I went for it, I burned retrograde and landed on a crater, I planted my flag and launched back towards Kerbin. Now that I landed on the Mun, the next place was obvious, Minmus. Due to the large amounts of fuel left when I orbited the moon, I knew that it can easily reach Minmus. I stuck a lander probe on it, knowing that my Kerbals will have a really high chance of dying. I launched at night time, I did the usual in orbit, however, Minmus doesn't have a flat orbit unlike the Mun, so I used the Maneuver Node to adjust my orbit. I flew to Minmus, landed and took this screenshot (On my old computer).

After landing on Minmus, I had to do it again, only this time, a manned mission.

I felt like the Jool I should have a successor, the Jool II. I went to the VAB and basically removed the NASA liquid fuel boosters and replaced it with more solid fuel boosters as the Jool I had a problem of the liquid fuel boosters colliding into the engine when separated, it would even worse than the Jool I, it failed miserably, couldn't even get out of the atmosphere. So I went back to the Jool I and used a modified version of the Mun Lander I made for the Mun mission.

I launched it into orbit, separated the launch stage and landed on Minmus again. I planted a flag down (again, still on my old computer, which explains the horrible quality) and headed home. This was the screenshot:

And that's it, hope you've enjoyed it. I've got a new computer now and I'm using the speed to my advantage and build a space station, but that's a story for another post.

Edited November 8, 2014 by Potatus