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Project Gemini


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A follow on to Project Mercury: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/102300-Project-Mercury

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Here is the Gemini capsule (using a Mk1-2 Command Pod as the base as there is no stock 2-kerbal command pod and the Mk2 Cockpit isn't really the same thing at all) on a Titan II GLV (Gemini Launch Vehicle). I used a LFB as the first stage since the Titan II GLV has a 2-engine cluster on the first stage. (The 2nd stage uses a Skipper.)

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I set up the Gemini / Titan GLV stack on the launch pad as shown in the post above... then went back to the VAB to remove the 3rd Kerbal who had somehow stowed away on-board :confused:

After that issue was resolved, I launched the rocket. The two Titan stages provide plenty of fuel to put the capsule into a fairly high LKO, with lots of margin left over. (The Gemini here also has much more delta-v capacity with its O-10 Monopropellant Engines than the real one would have... but using any of the other monopropellant tanks would have messed up the vehicle's appearance, so I had to use the largest one.)

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I placed the capsule into a moderately high LKO with the GLV, circularizing at about 160km.

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Our brave Kerbonaut replicates Edward White's pioneering EVA.

After successfully completing the "tethered" EVA, the capsule returned safely to Kerbin.

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