The Royal Squirrel Patrol Space Force

March 13, 2014

Kassie Come Home

Log Entry, Mission Day 179: Bill and I have wound down our experiments, retrieved the last set of logs from the wreck of the Kerbasus, and are prepared to depart the surface of Eve. We've both gone over the Kassie looking for any problems. The landing gear on the northern, uphill side are extensively damaged, but the ship itself is undamaged and we've done sufficient repairs to ensure that the jettison bolts will function. We've repackaged the parachutes that will be used for our Kerbin descent, and in a few minutes we'll launch back into space.

This will be the most critical phase of the mission. Will the craft hold together on launch? Do we have sufficient delta-v to reach Eve orbit? Will we successfully rendezvous and dock with the refueling craft in orbit? Or will we remain stuck here on Eve, hoping for another rescue mission? In just a few seconds, we'll find out...

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Kassie Goes to Eve

At long last, the day is here. The Kassie IV vehicle has been refurbished and reassembled, and is poised on the pad, ready for it's mission. Ready this time not for another test or demonstration flight, but for it's true purpose: the journey to Eve to rescue Bill Kerman and bring him safely back home.

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March 07, 2014

Kassie Goes to the Mun, Part II

Welcome back ladies and gentlekerbs. Hopefully everyone is rested after the break, as it's time for the briefing on the Kassie IV mission. I'm Jebediah Kerman, and here with me is Lanlo Kerman, my co-pilot for this mission.

For this launch, I was in command in the habitat aboard the Kassie IV lander core, and Lanlo was above me on board the service module.

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Kassie Goes to the Mun

Hello again, ladies and gentlekerbs, this is Jebediah Kerman, here again to give you a briefing on the ongoing effort to prepare our interplanetary mission to Eve to rescue Bill Kerman.

At our last briefing, I described for you the Kassie III mission, in which Bob Kerman, Lanlo Kerman, and myself each launched in one of the modules of the complete Kassie III vehicle, rendezvoused in orbit, and then attempted a flyby of the Mun as a test of the vehicle.

Unfortunately that mission was less than a complete success, as the vehicle proved both unstable and woefully underpowered for an interstellar journey. Upon our return in the Kassie III lander, the engineering crews refurbished and upgraded the vehicle, producing the vehicle used in todayâ€™s mission: the Kassie IV.