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[Logan Darklighter]

DRAG0NFLIGHT wrote:

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Btw: On your image page, how did you get that spacedock in orbit? Did you put the whole thing up in one shot? Or do you have an orbital station mod?

I got the whole thing up in one shot. It launched exactly as you see it. It makes physics cry in agony, but the son of a bitch flies. I did lose the file for it unfortunately, But I can recreate it. It needed modding anyway. It was a BITCH to navigate. You could get it into a stable orbit. But good luck getting it into any particular inclination with the craft as it was. 
I made the thing for two reasons. One - this was before I got the modded files that made the cockpit pod work correctly for 18.2. So I made a spaceprobe, unmanned truss and girder system and constructed the Eagle inside that. With the intent of rendezvousing with it in orbit and having the Kerbals jump aboard it there and jettisoning the spacedock. Never got around to that before I lost the game save. 

And two - even though that's unnecessary now, I still think it would be useful for launching for extreme long range missions where you don't want to waste the on-board fuel on getting out of Kerbin's gravity well. 

(In case anyone is wondering what we're talking about - here - )

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