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[LoSboccacc]

do we sign up for round 2 or does it happen automatically?

also, we should keep track of science done

[TheBronzePickle]

If you care about science, PTTG got 41 for his mission, I made 81 on mine, Sean Mirrsen made 333, and you (LoSboccacc) made 303.

[PTTG??]

New players get added to the end of the current round, and when we reach the last player on the list, it starts over again.

[LoSboccacc]

If you care about science, PTTG got 41 for his mission, I made 81 on mine, Sean Mirrsen made 333, and you (LoSboccacc) made 303.

oh I care not of a science contest, only of where we have already been so we know where to go to push it. currently easy to know because of flags.

[Sean Mirrsen]

We haven't left Kerbin SOI yet, and I've only been to the Mun's Midlands. There's plenty of reports and soil samples to take still.

[TheBronzePickle]

And don't forget you can still bring new modules to old places as we unlock them and get more science, or even repeat old experiments for extra science.

[kaian-a-coel]

I don't think I'll ever try a shot at what you're doing, but wouldn't it be useful for other people to keep track of every experiment that has been done so far?

[Sean Mirrsen]

I think there's a mod that does that now.

[Karlito]

Yeah, it works retroactively as well, since all that information is already buried in the save file. Definitely one that I wouldn't mind using.

Anyway: mission 5 complete! Nothing too ambitious here; I'm really impressed Sean landed on Mun with only two techs.

(pictures coming soon!)

[PTTG??]

I agree, it's a useful mod.

If you'd like to use it, it's available here.

[Karlito]

Spoiler: Mission 5 Log (click to show/hide)

Kerbal Scientists are eager to test out the newly developed materials science lab. Engineers slap together a rocket with the lab module and step back to admire it a moment before pronouncing it "good enough".


The lab doesn't return any interesting results sitting here on the ground, so the scientists persuade Mission Control to "just hurry up and launch it already". Ed Kerman is the only pilot awake at the time, so he straps in for a night-time launch.


And we're off! Already the lab is beginning to return some results, but they simply aren't good enough. We have to go higher!


Boy, the sky sure does look big at night.




Nope, still boring! Ed is beginning to doubt the scientific value of this mission.

Unfortunately, before he has time to consider scrapping the whole thing, the separation of the first stage boosters causes a slight attitude problem that requires Ed's attention.

(Mission Control Kerbal 1: "Gee what's happening up there? I can't see a thing."
Kerbal Scientist: "If only there was some way we could fix that...")

Anyway, Ed's superb piloting skills correct the horrible spinning, and he's soon enjoying the view from orbit, though he did have to deviate from the planned equatorial flight path by a small degree.


Unfortunately, these results are still borrrrrrrrring. He's got to take the rocket even higher.

Oh heck yes! Suddenly, the whole thing seems worth it.

GLOW IN THE DARK ROCKETS! Just wait until the boys back home see this!

Without another moment of hesitation, Ed turns the ship around and burns for home.


There go the engines.


Ed still isn't too sure how he feels about this 'aerobraking' thing.


Parachutes and...


A perfect landing. Huh, Ed doesn't think he's ever been on this side of the planet before.


He hopes he isn't getting ahead of himself, but an occasion this momentous just has to be remembered.


Science round up:

[LoSboccacc]

wait do we have radial chutes? wow!

[Karlito]

Mission 6 will even have reaction wheels available to it, so in the future Kerbals won't have to worry about their rockets flipping upside-down every time they try to leave the atmosphere.

[techno65535]

While those reaction wheels will be useful when my turn comes up, I'm more in need of struts than anything. And launch clamps. ...And solar panels. Good thing those are only on two research nodes and there's two people ahead of me.

As a side question, do we have to purchase our node after our mission or can we purchase it before?

[MarcAFK]

I'll try my hand at getting a MatLAB over to the mun and back, However I've had rather bad luck getting large rockets to not fall apart without struts, but on the bright side I have actually gotten a few rockets to munar orbit yesterday.
None successfully landed however, cancelling forward velocity still escapes me
This should be interesting.