"Holiday on Minmus Part 2," Episode 158 of Journey Into Space
1Ah, space tourists. Whatever our intrepid pilot team Jerbin and Jake think of them, they bring money into your space program. I mean, our space program doesn't actually require money at all, but lets pretend. But in order to get them to Minmus, they first have to get to orbit. Now, we could use a disposable rocket to get them there, but that's wasteful and would drive the ticket price up. No, what is needed is a *mostly* reusable orbital shuttle to take them up.
In this episode, we tank up the Minmus Shuttle which is a little light in the fuel department due to some less-than-optimal piloting on my part, launch our tourists into space on a mostly reusable shuttle, dock, transfer the tourists, and then send the robotically-controlled Orbital Shuttle back to the Kerbal Space Center.
I need to stop calling everything a shuttle, it's confusing. Okay, from now on the Minmus Shuttle is called the Minmus Shuttle Enterprise, and the Orbital Shuttle is called the Orbital Shuttle Orion.