PPD-10 Hitchhiker Storage Container

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PPD-10 Hitchhiker Storage Container
Part image
Habitation module by
Jebediah Kerman's Junkyard and Spacecraft Parts Co

Radial size Large
Cost (total) 4 000.00 Funds
Mass (total) 2.25 t
Drag 0.2-0.3
Max. Temp. 2000 K
Volume N/A
Impact Tolerance 6 m/s
Research Space exploration.png Space Exploration
Unlock cost 12 400 Funds
Since version 0.18
Part configuration hitchikerStorageContainer.cfg
Crew capacity (maximum) 4

 Crew

Inventory Slots 18 slots
Volume Limit 1500 l

The PPD-10 Hitchhiker Storage Container (also HSC) is a container and can be manned with 4 Kerbals.

Usage

It is empty at the beginning of a flight and needed to be manned manually. To man the container other Kerbals need to be transferred from command pods with an EVA. When Kerbals are in a storage container, their portraits will not show up in the staging view. But they leave the storage container out by left-clicking the door of the container and clicking on the EVA buttons next to their names.

The main uses of storage containers are:

  • Building space stations and bases
  • Rescuing stranded Kerbonauts and bringing them home
Possible interior

Interior

Until version 0.19.1 the HSC hasn't any interior view and doesn't allow to go IVA with a Kerbal. The KSP Weekly game development report from March 19th 2013 included a picture which may be the interior of the Hitchhiker Storage Container in a future version.

Description

The HSC was an invention of necessity - how do we store 4 Kerbals on-orbit without any real provisions for return? Who needed this remains a mystery, as do his motives

NovaSilisko

Changes

0.18

  • Initial Release