Mission 3: The Learningmobile

GOAL: Try out some of our new science equipment for MAXIMUM LEARNING!
OUTCOME: Accidentally went to the Mun.
NOTES: With more boosters, we might be able to PURPOSELY go to the Mun.

MISSION LOG

After that successful orbit, our boys in the lab thought it might be cool to take "equipment" up into space and do "experiments." According to them, if we gain enough science knowledge, we'll be able to build extravagantly huge rockets. Well, I'm all for anything that leads to bigger and better explosions missions, so we gave them the go ahead.

They put some "materials" into canisters and found some "mystery goo" on the side of the road and integrated those things into our old rocket design. The idea is, we'll go up into space, then look at that crap, and take some notes. We call it THE LEARNINGMOBILE.

TIME TO LEARN. FAST.

We've never thought about adding extra stuff to the top of the rocket before, so we added a bunch of engines to the bottom to "balance it out." Seems like pretty sound reasoning. The lab boys didn't want us using SRBs on this mission because they wanted to preserve their precious experiments.

Jeb was in some hot water with his lady back home, so we had to have our old friend BURSTED KERMAN fill in for him. Did I say "old friend"? I meant "one of the interns from the lab".

Bursted, there is nothing to be concerned about.

The rocket was incredibly unstable fun to fly, as it kept trying to spin rapidly in circles. Bursted kept it under control like a bucking bronco and eventually made it into orbit. But once he got there, he had tons of fuel left and some extra materials left over from his experiments, so he made the judgment call to swing by the Mun and take a peek. He even managed to set a course that would bring him right back near Kerbin, so he would have plenty of fuel left over for re-entry!

Come here, Mun. Prepare for tickles.

By the time he got there, Bursted realized that he was going to have to bring all that vital science data into the capsule for safe keeping. 

FILL ME UP WITH KNOWLEDGE

Because, well... we forgot to put heat shields on the science capsules. SOOOOO... They're probably going to explode upon reentry.

Where we're going, we won't need engines. Or whatever that was that just exploded.

Yep, that happened. Bursted still got the damn thing under control though, and ended up making a nice landing in the Mountains. And by "nice" I mean "oddly fiery".

It was deliberate.

But anyway, we gained a SHITLOAD of brain juice this time around, so we're going to put all that new technology to use on our next mission. Next stop: THE MUN.

I claim these mountains IN THE NAME OF THE KERBAL CONQUEST PROGRAM!