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Kerbal Space Program (2015)

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Apollo direct ascent in Kerbal Space Program, RSS mod. Recreation with few kerbal variations.

Direct ascent was a method for performing a manned landing on the Moon proposed in the United States for the Apollo program. It would have required developing an enormous launch vehicle, either the Saturn C-8 or Nova rocket, to launch the three-man Apollo spacecraft, with an attached landing module, directly to the Moon, where it would land tail-first and then launch off the Moon for the return to Earth. The other two options that NASA considered required a somewhat smaller launch vehicle, either the Saturn C-4 or C-5. These were Earth Orbit Rendezvous, which would have involved at least two launches to assemble the direct-landing and return vehicle in orbit; and Lunar Orbit Rendezvous (LOR), which carried a smaller two-man lunar lander spacecraft for flight between lunar orbit and the surface. LOR was the strategy used successfully in Apollo.

Source: wikipedia



Configuration showed in the video is slightly bigger than original concept. It consist of 9 F-1A engines (equivalent of almost 11 F-1 used in Saturn V) in the first stage, 9 J-2 engines in the second stage and 2 J-2 in the third stage.

Launch Mass: 6 050,000 kg
LEO Payload: 265,000 kg to a 200 x 200 km orbit at 28.00 degrees.
Payload: 96,000 kg to a translunar trajectory.

CREDITS:
Music:
Ride of the Valkyries - Wagner
New Dawn - Bensound, www.bensound.com
Outro: Into the Wormhole - Jingle Punks

MODS:
RSS, RO, RP-0, RVE, Scatterer. Remote Tech, KCT, Real KSC + many others required by RP-0
Procedural Tanks, Procedural Fairings, FASA, AIES, Nebula Decals

Pictures, details: http://imgur.com/a/15Sp3
LRV delivery: http://imgur.com/a/yDPVe
Landing site: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/lroc-20100618-malapert.html
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Lunar_south_pole.jpg

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