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#KerbalSpaceProgram has taught me to appreciate what a huge achievement @NASA getting to the moon was. You think you know. You go "Yeah, it's the moon, we went a bunch of times. We played golf on the moon. So what?"
But you don't.
But you don't.
So in this game I have sandbox mode on, which means I don't have to worry about any extras. I can just play with all the toys because that is what I really want to do. Don't have to worry about funding or research. Just space.
Also, the game allows me to let my kerbals take the wheel and fly while I focus on the mission at hand. It gives me a map with a little blue line to follow. It calculates the movement and vector that I need to follow to do the things that I need.
Flew Jebediah to the Mun, collected science, and then started ascending to rendezvous with the service module but then I realized I didn't give enough fuel to make it back to the module. I aborted ascent with enough fuel to land. Getting him (and his science) back was a doozy:
First, I built a vehicle carrying 3 communication relay sats and put them in KEO. I eyeballed the resonance so they're in an isosceles triangle. Whatever, it worked.
Did the same thing in polar orbit around the Mun (with an actual 1/3 resonant orbit precalculated this time).
Did the same thing in polar orbit around the Mun (with an actual 1/3 resonant orbit precalculated this time).
Finally, I sent the same munar lander mission up but with an empty pod, 50% extra fuel, and a probe module controlling it. Landed it next to Jeb, he hopped on with the experiments, ascended to orbit, rendezvoused with the service module, and made it home safe.
