January 10, 2014
Kouston, We Have a Problem
Ladies and gentlekerbs, members of the press, I'm here to brief you on the developing situation with Bill Kerman on the planet EVE. Please understand that we're still gathering information and our personnel are currently working the problem. I'll give you what information I have, so please pay attention, hold your questions until the end, and try not to ask questions you know I can't answer. Thank you.
As you know, with Jebediah still recovering from his successful journey to Duna, Bill Kerman was chosen for the next mission, a trip to the EVE with the now proven Kerbasus-Kermes III rocket. Your press packet includes a variety of photographs from the early parts of the mission.
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Atop a Pillar of Fire, I Journey to Red Duna
I sit 113 meters above the launch pad atop the Kerbasus-Kermes III, 964 tons of metal, rocket fuel and fission reactors poised to carry me once more into the dark of space, this time to red Duna. As I sit here in my chair, the mighty rocket swaying gently, with the now familiar cacophony of creaks, bangs, whirrs and roars filling the capsule while the chatter of mission control fills my helmet, I feel calm.
My thoughts go back to an interview I gave a few weeks ago during the parliamentar investigations into the Kerbasus I failure. Kalther Kerman asked me how it was that I could watch rockets fail on test, explain rationally to parliament the myriad dangers innate to the exploration of space, and yet climb into the capsule time and time again, to go out into space, perhaps to die. I find that the answer I so glibly gave then still holds:
"Because if I don't, who will? And if nobody does, if no Kerbal ventures out to explore the universe, to go to the farthest corners of creation, place their footprint into the virgin dust of new and remote places, the universe will be a much poorer place for it."
I am Jebediah Kerman, and in a few minutes I will blaze a trail of fire and smoke into the heavens. Perhaps I will go to Duna. Perhaps I will come back. Whether I succeed, or whether I fail, I can't imagine being anywhere but here, doing anything but this.
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KSP rocketship design seems to involve a lot of "if more is good, a LOT more is better," doesn't it?
Great travelogue!
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Indeed, more is good, a lot more is better, ludicrously more is best.
The lander for this mission was pretty heavy, and the transfer stage was a bit over-sized even so. With that much mass at the top, the launch stage had to get pretty big. It actually took me several iterations of "surely THIS will be way more than I need..." before I could get it into orbit without using the transfer stage for half or more of the circularizing burn.
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January 09, 2014
Presenting the Kerbasus-Kermes III
Greetings, ladies and gentlekerbs, and welcome to today's tour of the Kerbal Space Center Vehicle Assembly Building. The focus of today's tour will be the rocket behind me, the Kerbasus-Kermes III.
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January 06, 2014
Answering Ancient Questions
Ever since the first Kerbal trained a telescope to the skies and looked at Kerbin's second moon, Minmus, a question has remained unanswered: is Minmus really made of green slurpee goo, and if so, is it as tasty as it looks?
I am Jebediah Kerman, and today I plan to find out.
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January 05, 2014
Rocket Science is Hard
The average working Kerbal loves to hear of the exploits of the Royal Squirrel Patrol Space force, seeing Jebediah Kerman, Bob Kerman, and all their fellow astronauts rocket into space, float around inside and outside their capsules, and bounce around on the Mun. And we here at the RSPSF delight in giving them those stories. Not only is it our mission, but the commissions and royalties make our accountants very happy Kerbals.
What we don't want to have to tell the public is that we've had a disaster, and one of their beloved astronauts has been turned to paste, ashes, or a fine red mist. So we perform the occasional test of the equipment to ensure that the disaster never happens. Although sometimes, our accountants disagree that we've avoided disaster.
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January 04, 2014
To the Mun (Tutorial) Part Three: Back to Kerbin
In our last session, we covered an Ikerbus-Kerbysseus flight to the Mun, from launch through to landing on the Mun. Today I'll describe the flight back from the midlands craters of the Mun to a safe landing on the desert lakebed of Kerbin.
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To the Mun (Tutorial) Part Two: Travel to the Mun
Good day, ladies and gentlekerbs, and welcome back to this overview of the Ikerbus-Kerbysseus Mun exploration program. My name is Bob Kerman, and in this session I'll show you how we fly our rocket to the Mun.
This image from the main display in the command center shows our preferred launch window. We see Kerbin in the foreground, with our rocket on the launch pad at the Kerbal Space Center shown by a little capsule icon. In the backgroun we can see that the Mun is about 10 degrees below the horizon, or an hour or so before Mun rise on this particular night. By launching with Kerbin and the Mun in this configuration, we will give ourselves an efficient course straight to the Mun after launch.
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To the Mun (Tutorial) Part One: The Rocket
Hello ladies and gentlekerbs, and welcome to the Kerbal Space Center. My name is Bob Kerman, and I'm an astronaut of the Royal Squirrel Patrol Space Force. Today I'll be giving you an overview of a project Kerbysseus flight to the Mun and back. Let's start with the details of the Ikerbus-Kerbysseus rocket.
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January 03, 2014
To the Mun
After the Kerbetheus II mission and my successful space walk, it was time to hand the rest of the Kerbetheus missions over to other astronauts who needed the experience, and the chance to get their names and photos circulated around Kerbin.
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The Kerbetheus Program
I dare to dream.
I will not let fear limit me.
I will go where no Kerbal has gone before.
I am Jebediah Kerman, and I am an astronaut of the Royal Squirrel Patrol Space Force.
Now that I've gone to the edge of space and come back alive, intact, and as sane as I ever was, it's time to get the Kerbetheus program going in earnest.
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These are the Tales of the Royal Squirrel Patrol Space Force
As I sit here in my command chair, my ears are filled with the creaks and bangs of the metal beast that has engulfed me, the gentle moan of the wind on my capsule, the occasional bang and rumble of pumps filling various tanks, and over it all, the chatter of the many engineers and flight controllers reporting over my headphones. My name is Jebediah Kerman, and I am about to fly into space. Or perhaps I’ll be blown into smithereens and scattered all over the coast here at the Kerbal Space Center. We’ll see.
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