Moon and Back on SRBs

[Lemniscate Biscuit]

Ok. First I'll set some boundaries.

1. My definition of "SRB" is any engine that uses the solid fuel type and has its fuel bar separated from the normal liquid fuel bars. This includes the LES, Booster Tut 1 and Tut 3 and the retro pack.

2. I did use the Revert-30 seconds method to make the first stage have infinite fuel. I do have a version that does not use this method, but it crashes my computer when I launch it.

In order to get career mode in Steam edition, I did have to edit the world file and set the mode to 1. I then added in all of the other upgrades to get the other parts.


I set the separation force for all of the separable parts to 0 kN so that no impulse could be gained from them.

Not sure if anyone else has done Moon SRB before, so let me know. Thank you.

Now onto the mission.

First I launch our little rocket.


Then I revert 30. (Please don't cancel me for doing this)

Now our first stage is infinitely fueled.

We head to orbit.

And we finish the transfer (this was fine-tuned using some retro packs)

Encounter (trajectory fine-tuned with a retro pack)

Slow down using one of the SRBs and prepare to lithobreak.

Impact!

Final touchdown (used 1 retropack to decelerate)

Positioning the moon.

Lunar surface lift-off.

Used all remaining retro packs for transfer back to Earth.

Earth encounter and last retro pack jettision.

Reentry

Landing and challenges.

To be continued...

 

[Lemniscate Biscuit]

Here's the mission log (I had to teleport the craft to orbit, and then click the "Destroy" button to get the mission log up)

You can see that I used Warpinator to do this because there is another <Reached 1000m altitude> under the first mission.

 

[Pizzaya]

Wow you're absolutely insane, and good at the game

 

[Lemniscate Biscuit]

Wow you're absolutely insane, and good at the game

The lithobreaking took 2 hours. That was the longest part.

And thank you.

 

[Altaïr]

Wow, that's a surprising challenge to say the least. Good job, it surely was tough.

 

[Lemniscate Biscuit]

Wow, that's a surprising challenge to say the least. Good job, it surely was tough.

Thanks.

 

[Orion]

Yo you actually did it! I had mah doubts.