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Originally Posted by Lionclaw
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Upon creating the R7-Semjorka, I realized that I would really like some sort of nosecone to put on the booster rockets to mimic the way they meet up with the main body.
In hindsight, Kostov would've been a great name to go with, but alas I derived from Earth history and started making up my own rocket names/designs.
I've come up with my own naming formula It will be KR-# Name #.
KR-# is the Kerbal Research number for the rocket. Examples are KR-1, KR-5,etc. I may use KP-# for unmanned prototype rockets. Space fitting, I may add MK# or M# to denote Minor versions of the same rocket. For example, if I need to change a small aspect of the rocket, and do not need to start with a fresh rocket.
Name is the name I assign to the rocket. I'm kind of partial to Greek/Roman God names, but I may kerbalize some of the names. In the case of long names, I may Abbreviate.
# will be the flight number for this kind of rocket. Will start with 1 and work it's way up.
Now back to the main show:
Mission Artemis 1
The KR-1 Artemis 1 sits on the launchpad and conducts a solar panel check before launch. Jebediah is thrilled to be the first Kerbal in space.
I was mostly testing to see if action groups worked correctly.
And what's KSP without failures.
Let's try this again...
Ignition of engines
Full thrust
Kouston, we have lift-off.
The tab on the right is the Graphrotron mod. It takes all the data the new sensors give out, and puts it into a graph. So you can measure how different aspects change as time goes by.
Ejecting the first stage
Gravity turn
Ejection of the second stage
Circularizing the orbit. Jebediah Kerman is now the first Kerbal in space.
And due to a malfunction the third stage is ejected prematurely. The orbit hasn't had a chance to circularize, so Jeb is coming home early.
Shortly after firing the separatrons to slow down, Jeb turns the space craft retrograde to increase drag for aerobraking. While he didn't get to orbit Kerbin this time, he's excited to go up again.
Chute deployed
Welcome home Jebediah.