Send Kerbals to Martian Surface and Back in RSS+RO (NO INFINITE FUEL)
Welcome to KSP in RSS...I thoroughly enjoy this game and had a great time creating this video. Over the next hour, I want to share with everyone my journey to Mars and back. For the entire duration of the mission, I never used infinite fuel cheat.
The video is long, so here's the TL;DR...
INTRO - • Send Kerbals to Martian Surface and Back i...
OVERCOMING CHALLENGES - • Send Kerbals to Martian Surface and Back i...
RESOURCE REQUIREMENTS - • Send Kerbals to Martian Surface and Back i...
DEMO MISSION PLAN - • Send Kerbals to Martian Surface and Back i...
CONSTRUCT MOTHERSHIP - • Send Kerbals to Martian Surface and Back i...
LAUNCH SMALL BOOSTER - • Send Kerbals to Martian Surface and Back i...
DOCK SMALL BOOSTER - • Send Kerbals to Martian Surface and Back i...
LAUNCH LARGE BOOSTER - • Send Kerbals to Martian Surface and Back i...
DOCK LARGE BOOSTER - • Send Kerbals to Martian Surface and Back i...
REFUEL LARGE BOOSTER - • Send Kerbals to Martian Surface and Back i...
TRANSFER WINDOW TO MARS - • Send Kerbals to Martian Surface and Back i...
SEND CREW TO MOTHERSHIP - • Send Kerbals to Martian Surface and Back i...
GO TO MARS - • Send Kerbals to Martian Surface and Back i...
ALIGN WITH MARS - • Send Kerbals to Martian Surface and Back i...
ARRIVING AT MARS - • Send Kerbals to Martian Surface and Back i...
LAND ON MARTIAN SURFACE - • Send Kerbals to Martian Surface and Back i...
LEAVE MARTIAN SURFACE - • Send Kerbals to Martian Surface and Back i...
TRANSFER BACK TO EARTH - • Send Kerbals to Martian Surface and Back i...
RE-ENTER EARTH ATMOSPHERE - • Send Kerbals to Martian Surface and Back i...
DE-BRIEFING - • Send Kerbals to Martian Surface and Back i...
When I first started playing RSS, I spent about a week unlearning many of my bad habits I had picked up from the stock game. My first goal was to reach LEO in career mode; I spent about 2 weeks figuring out how to accomplish this. Over the next month, I sent probes to the Moon, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter.
Around this time I really wanted to start planning a mission to Mars and back with a live crew. Before I could do this in career mode, I first wanted to attempt it in sandbox mode. Going to Mars proved to be extremely challenging. Subtle design flaws proved catastrophic to the success of the mission.
Ultimately, after about 25 days of designing, redesigning, tweaking, and incremental mission successes, I finally brought my crew back to Earth alive after they had visited the Martian surface. Best of all, I did this without relying on infinite fuel. I wanted to document my journey in this video and describe my mission plan and spacecraft designs.
== List of Mods ==
KSP: 1.1.3 (Win64)
Filter Extensions - 2.6
Toolbar - 1.7.12
Advanced Jet Engine - 2.7.2
Ambient Light Adjustment - 2.5.8.5
B9 Part Switch - 1.4.3
B9 Aerospace Procedural Parts - 0.40.7
Chatterer - 0.9.90.1289
Community Resource Pack - 0.5.4
Connected Living Space - 1.2.3
Contract Configurator - 1.18.1
CustomBarnKit - 1.1.9
Deadly Reentry - 7.4.7
DMagic Orbital Science - 1.3.0.2
Ferram Aerospace Research - 0.15.7.2
Firespitter - 7.3
Haystack Continued - 0.5.1
Kerbal Construction Time - 1.3.4
Kerbal Engineer Redux - 1.1.1
Kerbal Joint Reinforcement - 3.2
KSP-AVC Plugin - 1.1.6.1
MagiCore - 1.1.2
ModularFlightIntegrator - 1.1.6
NearFutureConstruction - 0.6.4
NearFutureElectrical - 0.7.8
NearFuturePropulsion - 0.7.4
NearFutureSolar - 0.6.2
NearFutureSpacecraft - 0.5.1
PlanetShine - 0.2.5
Procedural Parts - 1.2.5
QuickMute - 1.0.9
RCS Build Aid - 0.8.1
RealChute - 1.4.1.1
RealismOverhaul - 11.3.2
Real Scale Boosters - 0.14.5
RealSolarSystem - 11.4
ReentryParticleEffect - 1.1
RemoteTech - 1.7.1
RSSDateTime - 1.0.4
SCANsat - 1.1.6.6
ShipManifest - 5.1.2.2
SolverEngines - 2.3
TestFlight - 1.7.0.1
TextureReplacer - 2.4.13
TAC Life Support - 0.12.4
Kerbal Alarm Clock - 3.7.1
Transfer Window Planner - 1.5.1
TweakScale - 2.2.13
VenStockRevamp - 1.9.5
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