Unmanned self contained (internal rocket landing and wheel propulsion, lab, sample drill) science mission onto Minmus. The gravity is ridiculously low and you have to turn off the reaction wheels to stop it from rolling itself over when you're driving around. Just unfolding the wheels is enough to make the robot jump off the ground.
Small(ish) launch system using a combination of single core engine, a quad liquid fuel booster set and a pair of small SRBs just cos it looks cool with all the offset burns.
Next, a replacement shuttle to the one I had docked at my station that was slowly coming apart because KSP physics. So I de-orbited the old one remotely and put together a much smaller crew/no cargo shuttle (since the
Excaliber program just doesn't want to fly either) of a slightly modified mod shuttle I downloaded a little while back.
This is Hermes, a very small ship with a very small inventory and crew capacity, but good and simple for crew transfers to my orbiting space station and easy to lift Buran style on a small 2 stage launch vehicle.
Second flight (first operational, the first one was a very sub-orbital hop just to make sure it glides straight, the other shuttles
really don't). This one is ion driven (which I wasn't a fan of, the thrust is...useless), can be flown remotely and had 2 jobs.
One, to move some scientists up to the floating labs at the space station (to keep the engineers company) and the second was to practice RCS docking and re-entry to landing, cos I've never recovered anything I've put into orbit successfully. Cos none of my other shuttles fly straight and would just start tumbling.
I had aimed for a landing as close to the KSC as possible. And I think I succeeded...
in landing a third of the way around the planet, blasting over 2 complete oceans and having to find a bit of water capable of splashing onto.
Oh yeah. I should probably have mentioned in the pre-flight brief that Hermes doesn't have sea-level engines. Or wheels. Or parachutes. And relies entirely on a completely un-powered glide belly flop to survive landing.
That narrow and windy river will have to do.
Naaaaiiiiled it.