Dawn of a New Era – Part I

“New things don’t just happen, we make them happen.” – Bill Kerman Making things happen Bill Kerman was running another diagnostic. “It seems the power grid is operational, but I still read fluctuations in the EPS manifolds.” He had been out in high Kerbin orbit for months now. Handling the details of the next-generation spacecraft […]

The great machine

With KSC facilities running at peak production on Kerbin itself it was time to build out the infrastructure in space. Create “a great machine” as Gene called it, that could facilitate larger and a greater number of vessels. Especially in light of the revelation that the Navy was looking at spacecraft a larger infrastructure to […]

Opening Minmus for Business

Falcon 12 Falcon 12 looked like yet another Falcon, but looks can be deceiving. The capsule had been replaced with a Delta-A capsule. This had 5 seats but only 3 would be crewed on the 6-day journey to Minmus. Kirus, Korolev, and Finni would be the first crew with a mission to get Cobalt 01 […]

The ride of Tut-Un-Jeb-Ahn

It had almost been a year since the hypothesis of Finni but finally they had finished the calculations and found a way to triangulate the gravioli radiation to a precise location on Kerbin. Sean Kerman was running a tight ship. This time he was navigating the waters at the helm of the N200 Neptune. A […]

Repairs

It took some time to get everyone aligned but then the C015D Castor 05 stood proudly on the launchpad. SpaceX had upgraded the design by squeezing a fourth kerbal in the cockpit. This allowed Korolev, a pilot and two tourists to travel to the space station simultaneously. The launch profile was nominal, despite the small shift […]

Aries gets orbital

Aries IV goes orbital A modified Arrow III stood proudly on the launchpad. By now all had been able to guess Jeb’s reason to push the development forward of this booster. Oddly it lacked its typical side boosters, but Bill had done the calculations and it should be enough. The rocket took off without a hitch […]