Year 13: First Landings
Moho! Eve!
With the kiddos in bed it was time to get back to work.
♪ Soon the man who sweeps the room / Brings the secret telegram /
Commence official interplanetary exploration ♪
Thank you for the card with the cartoon nurse, but you see... wait, where
was I.
We were with Odorous Kerman around Moho! What a great ship design, you
can separate the lander, land, then come back, re-dock, and head home
for Kerbin!
What's that Houston? Oh. So how much delta-V do we have? Oh.
Well maybe we can land the whole thing:
Well hmmm at least we still have the lander, let's separate:
And I shouldn't say how many tries it took (only two, but no time to
hover, you have to suicide-burn) but we planted that flag and got
our contract! And even landed upright first try!
Good news Odorous, you get to be the first Kerbal on Moho and quite possibly
also get to be its first permanent resident!
Meanwhile, near Eve
Desktop Kerman is bitter that the Moho landing was taken from him!
So he has re-routed his ship to Eve. Bwa-ha-ha-ha.
Are you sure this is a good idea Desktop? The ship wasn't really
designed for this... Valentina and the other Gilly refuges
are watching on in grim fascination.
This is much more fun than actually separating beforehand, though I am not
sure if it actually slows you down at all.
Let's not think of all the radiation from the engines being dumped
into the atmosphere here.
He's taking this more calmly than I am:
He survived! Desktop Kerman is the first Kerbal on Eve! He's even
less likely to get rescued than Odorous. I must say sunrise on
Eve is much more beautiful than I imagined, I hope the views are worth it.
If only his capsule had some sort of transmitter on it, we'd be raking
in the science.
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