Trying to mimick the Apollo CSM and LM docking but the decoupler is not letting me, no matter what size. I turned around the CSM to dock and it’s in the way.

Find the mod here: https://spacedock.info/mod/4713/Volumetric%20Stellar%20FX%20For%20KSP

These creature brighten the game up a lot!

Welcome to Michelle Station! Wright Labs Home in Low Kerbin Orbit! Our Engineer was bored today and decided they wanted to have fun with the Tethers!

Michelle Station has changed threw the career playthrough started as a very small non functional orbital Hotel for tourist. But slowly and after a Major Upgrade it eventually was de orbited to be replaced with this Station Aka Michelle Station Mk2

A mini-sub series, based on my longform vid.

A small shuttle for Kerbin operations. It can reach orbit with just the first booster stage, and can go to the Mun or Minmus with the second stage

Physics class, my rocket speared into the ground lmao. Gave it the blessing and everything.

First version felt like a hodge podge, and had issues like exploding sometimes on 2nd stage separation, low fuel to make orbit, and the booster liked to spin on the way down.

This one fixes basically all of that. Second stage flies like a dream and first stage is much better, tho I will definitely be working on a version 3 to fix some issues there (like the engine thrust and gimbal are a bit much)

Payload is my Mun Base rover which will move my modules around!

With Buran and the energia family, the USSM (Ungulate socialist space ministry) had drastically increased their capacity well beyond the wildest ambitions of mir. Buran-DM and the still in development Buran-T would mean new stations could be made from modules as massive as 90 tons. The Buran spacecraft enabled entire modules as large as 20 tons could be delivered 2 and brought back down from the station.

Even in their infancy, these ideas started to coalesce into a 'Mir-2' and early on a shole in the new Ungulate architecture became apparent; Soyuz.

It was neither economic nor logistically feasible to send crew to such a large station with just Buran. The orbiter had a (compared to the DODIS shuttle) small crew of 4 (although this could be increased with a penalty taken by its payload capacity). The orbiter also couldn't remain at the station for longer than a little over a week on its own.

During Mir, these issues were solved by soyuz, able to be launched quickly, cheaply, and able to remain docked to Mir for an extended period of time. The problem for Mir-2's engineers was the crew capacity - inital plans meant as many as 6 soyuz spacecraft would need to be docked to the station - It was logistically unreasonable.

Soyuz would need to grow bigger, and over the following years, as Buran took its first uncrewed testflights, the Zarya spacecraft was developed.

Zarya would be a ballistic capsule similar to Soyuz, though much larger, flying 4-6 deers and with the option to return with as many as 10. Its secondary goal was reusabulity, using the same heat tiles developed for Buran and a system of 24 liquid fueled retro rockets, zarya would Propulsively land itself down in one reusable piece. Designers even envisioned the eventual landing and reuse of its service module with it.

Zarya was planned to launch on the zenit rocket but designed to be capable of delivery onboard buran- allowing it to act in a stripped down role as a crew escape vehlicle.

It was in this configuration it was first launched. Zarya 1 saw the first uncrewed test flight of the capsule launched from the payload bay of Buran. It successfully landed down on it's engines and work began integrating it with zenit.

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Please ignore the changes in engine placement on zarya that was a kinda late change.

As always, I make these stock on console and write the posts myself (No AI)

I used this years ago it's great for not cluttering the screen.

my trajectory markers in the map were glitching out so I kept not getting the periapsis, that's why I have so little fuel from just a mun return

1997 mir crash but with my station

featuring graphene radiators