Moonwheels Part 2

Mission commander Scott Kerman was really excited about the Delta 16 flight. Despite being one of the original 4 Kerbonauts, she was the only one that had not set foot on one of Kerbin’s satellites. The Thor class launcher performed the standard launch, match inclination, raise orbit, followed by payload pickup maneuver before deorbiting. The […]

The eagle has landed

Delta 11 was placed on the pad for the ambitious mission to land on the Mun. As the crew was going through the pre-flight checklist the talked about the selected landing site near the small rover to investigate this strange Mun arch. “I wonder what it is made of,” Bob said. After final checks, the […]

Learning to fly

The Spider Jebediah Kerman put on his safety helmet and locked down his seatbelt. With his unmistaken smile he ignited the engines. After exactly 16 seconds of flight, the X623 Mun Lander Trainer 01 had burned through all of its fuel and from an altitude of 3 meters, Jeb ehrm “landed” his craft. “16 seconds […]

The eagle gets wings

The eagle leaves the nest Deep in the night a lonely L001D Eagle 01 stands on top of an Arrow IIIB2 for a sub-orbital flight test, it blasted off in a ballistic arc and engineers checked out all systems before the thing fell back and burned up in the atmosphere. “Capcom, all systems are green, […]