EAS-1 External Command Seat

EAS-1 External Command Seat
Command pod by Kerlington Model Rockets and Paper Products Inc
Radial size		Radial mounted
Cost	(total)	235.00
	(dry)	200.00
Mass	(total)	0.144 t
	(dry)	0.050 t
Drag		0.05
Max. Temp.		1200 K
Impact Tolerance		6 m/s
Research		Field Science
Unlock cost		8 100
Since version		0.20
Part configuration		externalCommandSeat.cfg
Crew capacity	(max)	1
Packed volume		70 l

The EAS-1 External Command Seat is a Command Module for one Kerbal crew member during their mission. Unlike all others, this module is not a capsule, but a seat that can for example be attached to rovers. Thus it has no interior, integrated SAS module or electrical storage capabilities and has no pilot in it when the mission starts.

Usage

This module is designed mostly for rovers, but can also be used to control any other kind of vessel.

Before it can be used to control a vessel, you need to move a Kerbal from a manned command pod into the seat. To do this, make him perform an EVA, move him close to the seat and right-click it. As long as a Kerbal is sitting in the seat, it provides full command-module functionality.

When you want a vessel which is controlled solely by a seat and has no other command pod, you need to get a pilot from somewhere. There are two ways to do this:

1. you launch just a manned command pod, get the pilot on an EVA, walk him out of the launchpad area and then launch the vessel with the seat.
2. You add the command pod with the pilot to the vessel itself, but construct it in a way that the pod can be decoupled before starting.

Description

“

The EAS-1 External Command Seat provides all the controls needed to fully operate a spacecraft, just like a command pod, but without such needless frivolities as "pressurized interiors", or "seat belts". It's bare-bones, pedal-to-the-metal efficiency at its finest. — Kerlington Model Rockets and Paper Products Inc.

”

Changes

0.20

• Initial Release