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Kadvent Kalender - 24 missions leading up to christmas

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Darmok

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Day 26 - In retrospect developing and flying a shuttle to the Night Wind space station the day after Khristmas when everyone was still hung over from too much holiday cheer was a really bad idea. One might say it was doomed to failure. At first we tried to develop a SSTO but after testing many different designs the result was the same - an uncontrolled flight into the ocean shortly after leaving the runway.

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At this point the SSTO design was shelved and more traditional design was attempted. Getting to orbit was no problem for this design but in our haste we failed to do adequate testing on important things like could it get back from orbit.

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We then started up a skunk works program to develop a shuttle that could at least glide somewhat adequately. This one did not fly at all adequately. Looks like we need another test pilot.

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We made more extensive changes and this one flew - briefly.

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The next test pilot wisely insisted that we install an abort sequence including some parachutes. This one flew but it took some effort to keep it up since it constantly wanted to point the nose down.

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OK, it's getting late so let's widen the rear landing gear and adjust the position of the engines so that it hopefully is more forgiving to fly. While were at it let's just send it up and hope for the best. It was a success although the landing was not as planned.

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Treldon

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Hey, I am still alive!

(Just working a lot. Yes, even in Christmas time ;.;)

Time to catch up a bit

Day 26 and shuttle desiging will have to wait till tomorrow

Day 27

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For Day 28, I present you what I kind of owe you: Day 23&24 v2

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Hi Again :)

December 28th, 29th, Full stock, KSP 0.90.

And now, the BIG SSTO MK-3 plane flight !

20 Kerbals, 21 Tons of Fuel/Monoprop payload for KSS in the bay... :)

Really slow to dock, the number of kerbals parts in space is high now ^^

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Darmok

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Day 27 - Although the PHB said there was no budget left to test the MK3 Shuttle we figured it would be perfect for the South Pole contract. At first everything seemed to be going well but there obviously were still some kinks to work out. In the end we did complete the contract but we also left Addin stranded at the South Pole.

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Day 29 - The resupply mission ran into a Kraken and part of the port wing was torn off. We're still trying to decide whether to send a rescue shuttle or to fly this one back as is.

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Hey all, hope everybody had a pleasant Christmas. Since nobody commented on the exploding Christmas Tree of December 24th, I'm assuming I'm good. I've been home for a day or two now, so I figured I'd go ahead and start in on the Apres-Noel part of the challenge:

I'm still in KSP 0.25 pending an update to the LoadOnDemand mod, so I don't yet have access to the new Mk3 parts. As a cop-out though, I made the Ostrich out of as many Mk2 parts as I could manage, so hopefully I'm still all cool and froody.

EDIT: And this morning I'm reading that December 29th is the last of the challenges, so that means I've finished the whole thing. Thanks for the challenges; I know I had fun doing them, even if I didn't have the time I needed...

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