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[IronTomato]

Sorry, I've been busy at school and was waiting for the weekend. Should have an update of some sort tonight.

[IronTomato]

The IronTomato Bureau of Astronomic !!Science!! has requested that we send a lone Kerbonaut, Edman Kerman, to establish an orbit around the sun, perform research, and return back. For this mission, he will be using this rocket:

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We are prepared for the worst.
The rocket has been carefully checked several times over to make sure it'll get the job done correctly.

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We have liftoff. The SFB rockets are beginning to overheat.

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In the end, the rockets didn't end up exploding. This was our path of orbit after the 2 launch phases.

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Soon after, we've established a low Kerbin orbit and have a great view of the Mun to boot. Don't get too comfy, Ed.

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Edman successfully burns into escape velocity, and voila, we have solar orbit. Time for Science, Edman. Make GlaDOS proud.

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After doing various Scientific precedures, Edman is ready to go home. Time for a burn.

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The Missile Rocket successfully lands on Kerbin, with all of the scientific instruments still attached.
But wait - the material bay doors are closed.

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Son of a whore. We forgot that part. So much science wasted on experiments we simply forgot to perform.
Oh well... We've still accomplished our mission, and have plenty of other sciences to show for it.

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The ITBoAS has rewarded us with blueprints for extra construction parts, including struts, launch stabilizers, and tricouplers. Cut - that's a wrap, boys. Exit stage right.

(OOC) So, yeah, basically my forgetfulness bit my arse again. There was also one other small mistake I didn't mention there. There wasn't any ladder on the re-entry lander (I never even remember they exist until it matters) so I couldn't EVA to place a flag, or I would've had to leave the ship, and science, behind. I hope this isn't a problem.

Teh save:

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https://www.dropbox.com/s/imv5sltcdjj3qrr/Kerbal%20SCIENCE%20Program.zip

EDITed to fix a wrong image.

[Karlito]

Ed Kerman says, "What gives? That rocket isn't glowing!"

(OOC) So, yeah, basically my forgetfulness bit my arse again. There was also one other small mistake I didn't mention there. There wasn't any ladder on the re-entry lander (I never even remember they exist until it matters) so I couldn't EVA to place a flag, or I would've had to leave the ship, and science, behind. I hope this isn't a problem.

You could have left the ship and then recovered the kerbalnaught and ship seperately: no science would have been lost.

[IronTomato]

You could have left the ship and then recovered the kerbalnaught and ship seperately: no science would have been lost.

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[TheBronzePickle]

So, how's this going? It feels like it's slowed down a little, though that may just be because I'm less busy.

[PTTG??]

I sent a PM to techno65535 but haven't heard back, so I'm moving on to 10ebbor10. Techno has been moved to round 2.

[10ebbor10]

Ok, got it. Won't be able to do it till tomorrow at earliest. so he still has time.

[techno65535]

Yeah, sorry, keep having random explosion issues during assent...And never the same one twice.

[MarcAFK]

Explosion issues? Apply more space tape! Or maybe dare i say it, you might have too many boosters

[techno65535]

Oh, it's got lots of space tape. And some of the biggest damn boosters you've seen...and a section that wasn't even under power decided to just go boom, really freaking weird.

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There used to be another of those boosters in the middle there, was the next stage.

Edit: ...Note to self, resize pictures before posting next time...

[TheBronzePickle]

You might consider cropping, too.

Also, good lord that thing is huge. Do you really need that much power to get your payload to where it needs to go?

[techno65535]

Yeah...Big trip needing lots of Dv and no nukes available yet so the thing that's got to get into orbit has to be quite large. And then that monstrosity of a lifter under it has ~4600m/s Dv to get the actual ship into orbit.

Side-note, 81 engines firing at once is loud.

Edit: Hallelujah! I made it to orbit. Now for the fun part.

[MarcAFK]

Sweet jesus, that thing is more monstrous than mine, then again you have space tape on your side.
COngrats on getting it to orbit.

[techno65535]

Heh, thanks.

Uploading screenshots to imgur right now. Should have it posted in an hour or so.

Got any pictures of yours?

[MarcAFK]

It went through over a dozen redesigns, mostly because I couldn't stop my radial booster stacks from peeling away and spagetti-monstering all over the place. Is there some trick to getting things to stick to  multiple decouplers?
The best method I could find was to  radially attach the required number of tanks in a single layer, then store it as a sub-assembly, then stack as many as required, this way every layer had it's own decoupler, however it seemed like the layers then weren't correctly gluing together, I had problems with stages not firing, or breaking off randomly, also the weight was breaking the bottom engines, i usually fixed this by putting girders under the nozzles and also making multiple girder based launch towers.
The main problem i had really was that I couldn't get girders to attach themseves to multiple items, I should take a screenshot showing what happened, it was quite awe inspiring when a massive rocket starts spinning like a top while a skirt of girder attached booster rockets swings out in ever widening radius, untill eventually breaking off forcing an early seperation of that stage.