Kerbal Space Program 0.9 Career 6

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Published on January 14, 2015 12:56:32 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAvPYx94xVE

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Kerbal Space Program (2015)

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I'm here again with some more Kerbal Space Program, continuing my 0.9 game.

Today, we are going to rescue the Kerbal from orbit. But before we do that, we are going to upgrade some of the buildings. We upgrade the astronaut complex so we can EVA while not on Kerbin, and we also upgrade the tracking station so that we can see orbits on the map and use the maneuver nodes.

We then look at the available contracts, and we take one for testing the drogue parachute. We then unlock Electrics tech, including small solar panels, from the R&D department.

We then start to build the rescue ship. We attach two command pods together, as we don't have a pod that can hold multiple kerbals. We put a drogue parachute on top, and two radial parachutes on the side. Below this we put a 1/2 size tank, and an LV-909 engine. Below that we put a decoupler with two large tanks and an LV-T45 engine. We copy that second stage, and attach a pair of them with radial decouplers to that second stage as a launch stage, with a pair a BACC solid boosters to help at launch.

We launch, and the launch initially goes well. However, when it comes time to drop the solid boosters, the hit the center of the rocket, and cause the whole thing to come apart. The final stage stays intact, and we are able to pop the parachutes and land safely.

We go through a few redesigns, and attach some sepratrons (taking us up to 30 parts), but we are able to get a design that doesn't have staging problems (even though it doesn't appear that the sepratrons fire).

We get into orbit, and then perform a maneuver that will get us within a few KM of the kerbal on the next orbit. When we get close, we match speed, and then head for him. We get withing 1.5 km and then he turns on his RCS pack, and heads to the ship. He takes an EVA report before getting in.

We then fire the rocket to return. While we aimed for KSC, we come in quite short, and land in the ocean west of there. We get the parachute test done on the way down, and recover the vessel.

With the accident during the first launch and the cost of the ship, we only earn about 15,000 funds, but we have a new Kerbalnaut! Next time we will attempt to earn more funds so we can upgrade the VAB.

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