Our little endeavour was going so well. After adding more fuel and replacing the LVT-45 liquid engines with LVT-30s, our craft became more powerful and lighter. This let us achieve heights never thought of before.
During launch a minor error left the new rockets in the same stage as the solid fuel ones, but this didn't prove to be of any major concern, the throttle was turned down for that stage then back up in the next one as intended.
Thus we could concentrate on our actual goal: Put an artificial object in orbit around our own planet. As soon as we passed the atmosphere, I had the final rocket ignited to put us on the right course.
But we miscalculated. Our momentum was too strong and the single LVT-45 could not redirect it to the correct angle. I was fearing we would do nothing more than land in a different continent than our own. I wish I had been right.
The craft drifted further and further, out into the vast expanse, over a million kilometres away from home. It did achieve orbit, but around the sun instead.
New long-term goal: Find a way to return Excelsior Mk V and its pilot *safely* to Kerbin.
Plan: Within a year the distance between Kerbin and the craft should be minimal again. By then we must have a suitable vehicle. Further objectives pending.
Lead Director comment: We have barely been launching rockets for 2 days and we already have our impossible objective to catch one specific grain of sand by throwing another at it, all while wearing the wrong glasses and in a sandstorm. Get to work, people!
Kerbal Space Program; That pilot is probably a goner, I doubt I could even hit the Mun, not to mention a small cabin. I hope the research upgrades will help.
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