Career out past the Mun
A beautiful sunrise launch for these space tourists.  They only signed
on for a trip to orbit, but today is their lucky day.

Free upgrade to an orbit around the Mun:

That still didn't bring in as much science as I wanted.  Though further
reading seems to indicate that I should be doing things besides just
EVA reports and goo reports.  Also storing the goo on the outside so
it blows up on re-entry is probably not optimal.
I hear rumors there's lots of science to be had around the space center.
Maybe we can hop around on a lander?  Nope, not going to work.  Should
have checked the thrust/weight ratio first.

Hmmm I guess we should finally put the airplane hangar to work.

This did work surprisingly well, except for the fact I don't have any
easy way to go backwards so we kept getting stuck.

Let's try getting to Minmus.  Just barely enough deltaV.
Again a tourist gets a nice free upgrade.

Heading back.  Learned the hard way that the two week trip will exhaust
the batteries and then you can't line up for re-entry or deploy the
parachutes.  Need to shut down a battery to save energy for the end
of the trip.

Finally we have enough science to unlock some of the 90-science techs.
Still not quite enough for a lander/return, although I guess I should
look into unmanned probes.
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