Upgrades

In low Kerbin Orbit The supply missions to UKSS had become a regular practice, this supply run could keep the station supplied for almost a year, depending on crew complement of course. The Charon Heavy was struggling with its payload, they even needed to use RCS to make orbit and the rendez-vous. Beauty shot. Crews […]

The Jump To Jool

Codenamed “The Jump to Jool” KSC cleared an exploration mission to the green gas giant in preparation for a manned mission. Though the Duna mission was much further in the planning phase and would launch at the end of this year, Jool required more upfront activity. And so launched the R002C Spirit 05 with a […]

The rocky return of Beale 01

The three-stage departure The return from Eve would take an unusual series of burns. First, they left Gilly to enter high Eve orbit. The second burn took them out of the sphere of influence of Eve and into interplanetary space. From there our brave Kerbals reoriented themselves and started a 30-minute, 2300 m/s burn 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 […]