Moon base

[The epic chicken]

Hi I'm epic chicken, I'm gonna be building a moon base.
This first launch will launch the orbital comms relay, the comms module and the airlock module.

This is my rocket, it ain't pretty but it'll get you where you need to go

We'll drop the orbital comms relay into orbit, where it can relay comms to earth

just pop out the solar panels

and we'll head to surface of the moon

Firing up the lander

coming down

Touchdown in the Sea of Tranquility

Just gotta pump the fuel into the comms module
(I pumped the fuel into the Lander during the decent due to the Lander became uncontrollable with the heavy weight on one side)

Used the rsc in the comms module to hop off the lander

Retract the legs

And point towards to relay module in orbit

and using the Lander to hop over the comms module to get the airlock into position

landed it

And separated the airlock from the Lander and deleted the lander

This was our first launch, we'll be conducting a few more launches

 

[The epic chicken]

and few days later we're off on the second launch

Ditch the fairings

Fire up the lander

And successful fuel delivery

 

[The epic chicken]

Third launch, Its orbin time

Bye fairing

Bye second stage

Nearly there

Touchdown

Separating rover

protective cover removed and suspension unlocked

And the lil fusion unit is down

and the base so far

 

[The epic chicken]

And we're on the 4th launch now, carrying the hab and viewing tower

Braking for landing

Bye second stage

Coming down

Landed

Connected the hab to the airlock

Moving the tower closer to the hab

And we have successfully delivered the hab and viewing tower to the moon base

Stay tuned for the next launch with chicken space program

 

[The epic chicken]

And off we go on our 5th launch

Braking for landing

More braking

Bye second stage

Coming in on approach

170 meters

Touchdown

And our base now has a landing site that catches rockets

Stay tuned for the next launch

 

[CrunchyBananas]

that is a very cool rocket! especially the first one, that one is very funky looking with the fairing nice base

 

[The epic chicken]

that is a very cool rocket! especially the first one, that one is very funky looking with the fairing nice base

Thanks

 

[The epic chicken]

Looks like we're going to also send the crew to the moon ourselves since nasa spent all their money on that orange hunk of junk over there.

Eh whatever, I present to you the "moon landing system"

The tower's umbilical arms are severed prior to liftoff

All 4 Titan engines light off at full thrust a few seconds later, providing the moon landing system with 1600 tonnes of thrust

The moon landing system initiates its gravity turn at 1km up

The rocket quickly climbs higher into the atmosphere

The LRBs run out of fuel and are jettisoned at 20km up, while the core shuts off its engines

The moon landing system continues up to its apogee

Where the core lights off its engines and continues accelerating into orbit

The core runs out of fuel and is jettisoned, while the second stage lights off it's single Frontier engine and ditches it's fairings and abort tower

And the seconds finishes the orbit burn

The second then lights off it's Frontier engine once again to send it on a course to the moon

The moon landing system then continues on a 3 day journey to the moon

Once it arrives, it once again lights off it's engine to slow down and drop into an orbit

And after the orbital insertion burn, we have a nice low orbit

The lander separates from the moon landing system's second stage and prepared for a landing burn

The lander lights off it's single Frontier engine to slow down for landing

And the lander coasts down to 5km before preforming a hard braking burn to slow down


To be continued.

 

[The epic chicken]

As we continue our mission to the moon, we're coming in on approach

The engine is once again fired up at 1km up to slow down even more

And we're just over 250 metres from landing

And the lander decends comes in for landing and comes to rest on the "landing pad"

Once the lander's secondary landing legs are deployed and propulsion systems shut down, the astronauts can disembark the lander

This guy seems to be checking out the view from the viewing tower

And the other guy is taking the suspension rover out for a spin

And my little moon base is complete

 

[The epic chicken]

Alright I guess I have to show the lander's return capabilities, so I'll load a quicksand with the astronauts still in the lander

The lander uses it's reaction control thrusters to clear the "landing pad" and lights off it's Frontier engine at full throttle

It climbs slowly into orbit

And bam, low moon orbit

And we set course for earth

As we near the perigee, the lander lights off it's engine once again to use every litre of fuel left to slow down

And we're coming down to earth

We'll jettison the propulsion module for re entry

And we enter the atmosphere in a firey re entery

8 kilometres to go

And we continued to slow down due to atmospheric drag

And once we're low enough we can deploy the parachutes and use the primary landing legs as stability fins

Just over 150 metres to go

And touchdown

And the astronauts can exit the capsule


And we can save a quicksave here and load the one on the moon

And that concludes my moon base mission

 

[Azuraaa]

Wow very big and cool base

 

[The epic chicken]

Wow very big and cool base

Thanks

 

[Mooncrasher]

Quite impressive, you did some things in an interesting way and added extra pieces.