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Aurora 7 reaches Minmus! Val circularizes the orbit, and the crew prepares to get closer, and commence the first Minmus Landing! The maneuver should take about 3 days.
Bob
Year 2, Day 359 (Aurora 7 Launch)
Aurora 7 blasts off from the Space Center! Val, Bob, and Robart are the crew – the mission: land on Minmus! 
After the burn to Minmus, Val performs the docking and transposition maneuver, and Aurora 7 begins its 5 day journey to Minmus!
“Hang tight everybody, we’ll be there soon!”
-Val
Year 2, Day 338 (First Mun Landing!)
Aurora 6 arrives at Mun! After a few short maneuvers, the craft is brought into a fairly close 40k orbit.
Mitster and Bob move into the Lander, and separate!
The lander moves lower, and lower…
Almost there!
Mitster hops out!
Followed by Bob!
Mitster plants the flag!
The two pose, then start collecting some rocks and other scientific data. 
After several difficult but exciting hours collecting Mun-stuff, Mitster and Bob blast off, and head to a rendezvous with the Aurora 6 Spacecraft! 
After docking, Mitster and Bob transfer over, being sure to take all their vaulable science with them!
“That exterior illumination sure proved valuable – docking on the dark side of Mun would have been a real trick without ’em!”
-Chrisnic
Mitster makes a small course correction on the way back to Kerbin…
“If these numbers are right, I think we’ll set down just outside of the Space Center! Really!”
-Mitster
The Aurora Spacecraft is designed with a fairly large “reserve” fuel pool, to allow corrections for… imprecise maneuvers. This extra fuel lets Mitster correct a rather wide departure from Mun into a fairly precise return maneuver for Aurora 6!
The crew makes it to the surface – welcome home guys! 
The crew returns to KSC, and shakes lots of Mun-dust out of their boots!
Year 2, Day 355
Blast off! Aurora 6 carries Mitster, Bob, and Chrisnic into orbit! All of Kerbin watches and waits as the crew chosen for the first Mun Landing rocket away!
Once in orbit, the scheduled burn for Mun goes well, and the Munar Insertion Stage is ejected. 
Mitster successfully completes the docking and transposition maneuver!
The crew settles in for the trip to Mun!
Year 2, Day 19 (Discovery 2 Minmus Return)
Discovery 2 returns from Minmus! Jebediah and Bob are both exhausted from the journey, but report being in good health! 
The Discovery 2 pod sets down in the deserts, west of the KSC.
“Wow! What a trip! I can’t wait to go back!”
-Bob
Year 2, Day 01 (Discovery 1 Starts Minmus Research)
Jeb closes the orbit of Discovery 1 to a very close 20km.
Bob hops out and starts running the planned experiments!
“It’s amazing out here! Kerbin looks so small! And Mun, it just looks super tiny!”
-Bob
The next phase is even more exciting! Jeb adjusts the orbit so that the Discovery 1 will get very close to the surface of Minmus. How close? Almost 8000 meters! 
Jeb maneuvers Discovery to a nice, low pass of Minmus.
“I’m going a little ways out from the ship to get a good look!”
-Bob
“Um… Ok… OK! That’s enough space walking! Minmus looks so close I can practically taste it!”
-Bob
After calming down Bob returns to Discovery 1, and the crew waits for their scheduled return!
Year 1, Day 423 (Discovery 1 Arrival at Minmus)
Discovery 1 arrives at Minmus! Jeb and Bob transmit pictures back from the cockpit.
“It looks… minty!” Bob says. After a bit of maneuvering, Discovery is put into a high orbit of Minmus. “Time to get a little closer!” Jeb says.
Year 1, Day 416 (Discovery 1 Launch!)
The Discovery 1 rocket is rolled out to the launchpad – Jebediah will be piloting, with rookie space-scientist Bob on board to assist with research. This will be Bob’s first mission in space!
Another first for the mission is the first Mission Patch! Symbolizing the adventure from Kerbin to Minus, and promising a future trip to Mun!
“Uh – so this is just the training simulator? Right?” -Bob
Not so much, Bob! Discovery 1 lifts off! 
After achieving orbit, Jeb aligns Discovery’s orbit to that of Minmus. Then, after a short wait, Discovery 1 burns to Minmus! The trip will be just 6 days – all of Kerbin waits!
Year 1, Day 402 (Kerb-Sat Network Fully Deployed)
After many, many launches, all the Kerb-Sat communications satellites are launched. “These communication satellites are really hogging the launchpads…” Jeb points out. The lead scientist behind Kerb-Sat, Bob, points out that “with these new satellites you and Val will be able to explore even further – trust me, it’s a good idea!”
“If you say so…” Jeb replies.
Over the course of a few days all the satellites are moved from their parking orbit of 90k to a much higher orbit of 300km, then maneuvered into positions where they provide full coverage around Kerbin! A handy side effect is that (except for the poles) Kerbin now has full radio coverage!
Kerbal States | Kerbin Space Exploration Administration 