Campaign: Mun Race

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Introduction

Robotic probes and a rover were on the Mun. Most of them Kerbiet. The public wondered if the first flag planted on the Mun would be Kerbiet. The final lap of the Mun Race was on! With the first launch of Kerbollo Program, Gene Kerbin and rest of the Kerbicans at the Kerbal Space Center were making a statement to the world. They figured the Kerbiets were taking too much time playing it safe with the Mun with their robotic missions. They wanted instead to meet the President's demands to get a Kerbal to the Mun before the end of the decade, and the decade was already half over! Thus began the most incredible engineering endeavor the world had ever seen.

Before the week is out, you'll be landing on the Mun roving around fixing busted robotic landers.

Specifications

  • Length: 40 hours
  • Difficulty: Probably darn near the hardest thing you've done in the Kerbal Space Program short of docking.
  • Skills needed: Navball navigation, Orbital Mechanics 101, Rendezvous, daft piloting skills, and wee bit of mission and vehicle planning skills
  • For version: Every version (tested on 0.20.2)

Kerbollo 1: Test Vehicle

The first multi-Kerbal space vehicle. Build it, fly it, land it.

  1. Vehicle must include the Mk1-2 Command Pod.
  2. Vehicle must include a well tested escape system which will return the command pod safely to the ground at any point in a suborbital launch.
  3. Spacecraft must go into space, orbit not required.
  4. Must land in water near the Kerbal Space Center.

Kerbollo 8: Far Side Explorers

Send three Kerbals to orbit the far side of the Mun and return.

Kerbollo 11: The First Manned Mun Landing

Kerbollo 12: The First Pinpoint Mun Landing

  • Land a Kerbal on the Mun and repair the Kerveyor 3 lander by extracting its stuck solar panel.


Final Word

Mun travel became routine after Kerbollo 12. The world went back to watching grass grow, that is, until Kerbollo 13 radioed back to the world "Kerbin, amelborp nu somenet!" which roughly translated means, "Kerbin, we have a problem."