After a short training period, the winners of the planet-wide raffle Urberry, Guswin, and Siski board the Aurora 30 Crew Vehicle – piloted by veteran pilot Malcolm!
Aurora 30 Mission Summary
- Crew: Mission Commander Malcolm, Tourists: Urberry, Guswin, Siski
- Mission: Crewed mission to Minmus. Reach orbit, land on surface, return to Kerbin!
“Oh wow! I can’t believe we’re going to Minmus!“
-Siski
“OK – hold on everyone! Liftoff!”
-Malcolm
“Ahhhhhh!“
-Siski
The N-2 Booster lifts higher and higher, carrying the first tourist journey into space!
“Lift good… solids are away!”
-Malcolm
N-2 rises to a 100k apoapsis…
…and circularizes into a stable orbit!
“We have a good orbit.. .welcome to space everyone! Separating from booster… Mission Control N-2 is yours!”
-Malcolm
“Roger that Aurora 30… we have a good connection with the booster! Starting re-entry procedures!”
-Gene, at Mission Control
The N-4 Neidon III booster streaks east, heading toward the Space Center!
Lately, KSEA has been having troubles with the Neidon Booster landings! Most of these have been calculation errors. The most serious of these was the catastrophic loss of the N-8 booster that nearly impacted the VAB! As a result, re-entry vectors are now being calculated to keep the boosters at a safe distance.
This time, touchdown looks good! Until the engine shuts off and…
The rocket starts to slowly teeter over! SAS and RCS systems kick in automatically, but they are not enough to stabilize the rocket!
