Kerbal Space Program moon digging for refuel

The first Kerbal Space Blog post,

A little history

Our Kerbals actually have had some history of space traveling but just recently discovered blogging. In a world with only one big space center, the invention of internet took a bit longer.

A little history of our latest flight, is that the ship wasn't new, it was actually used before on a bit failed mission to Minimus (we didn't found karbonite as our satellite didn't decouple), well they all returned safely, but the main reason for that was that Minimus had such a low gravity, that they could make it back without refueling. Yes space exploring requires some luck too.

 

Our mission

A more difficult journey would be to go to the mun, for a karbonite refueling mission. Since the mun has more gravity, a refueling mission would make more sense. Well perhaps it would be cheaper not but we never really calculated the difference in cos. and thus 4 brave Kerbals where randomly selected where trained for this life-threatening safely controlled mission.

First stages, bring us to space.

The advanced design ( pffff ) has a drill at the bottom of the final stages and thus therefore on cant build below it, therefore it has 2 medium rockets on its side for a substages, and 2 mini rockets on its side for stability, and wings, mainly for re entry and attaching stuff like solar panels and aero brakes.
The "bring us to space" stages, a symmetrical booster, with sub booster ring around it. From this last ring one-by-one the sub boosters detach per stage.

Where to go now

After the "bring us to space" stages had we fired  the "where to go now" stage. Its here that we can see a more clear picture of the upper stage as well, and the raw power. Actually due to some bad trajectory planning, this stage nearly made it to the Mun, while previously it easily got us to Minimus. Well planning is not easy we just those new internet computers..

Sepparation

Despite lousy excuse "we couldn't take a photo as we where behind our controls as this was a bit complex orbiting part..". This picture shows the upper stage satellite craft, a nuclear driven ground scanning radar. Used for Karbonite mineral detection. Because we needed to know where to land, to be able to refuel. Here we see our scanning result. And in the distance our satellite. But why didn't we take a selfie of the crew and the satellite??.

Because Bill Kermans mobile was drained ??? (oh my.. where the discipline of these Kerbals).

Landed at 62-29-38N 33-11-37W

Hey we landed on the mun, and we didnt even notice it ?.. no photos, or even..selfies ?.
according to Yebedia Kerman, 
"Yes, well it was a smooth ride, and we were playing with our mobile phones and then we felt a shock and noticed that we had actually landed, i guess mission control failed to inform us by Email to take pictures.."
 
..Well guys we did Email you we had set a notification on the Email, and then our modem had some problems.. well never mind, we use this picture which we rendered in our Blender Omatic Render computer, its almost real

Drilling for karbonite

Well we got refueled and our tanks are full of karbonite, ready to take of.. but hey Mission control,  did you notice we lost a wing ?.. Well now that you say so, yes you've seamed to have lost a wing perhaps something went wrong, while we where remotely controlling the karbonite satellite ?

Later it turned out that in fact Bob Kerman had seen a small red button which he had not seen before, and so.. well oh and eh no ehm never-mind, our mission was a great success right ?.

Going back home

Well despite the unbalance, caused by the missing wing, the craft easily went of into Mun orbit again.

And thanks to mechjeb we tilted and turned our frontal heatshield above our Clamp-O-Tron docking port.

One of the Kerbals noticed that the reason it worked now, was because for the previous mission they had constructed them wrongly. As clearly indicated by the strikethrough label "up" and overwritten "down" text, visible on a leaked selfie of Valentina Kerman.
As spotted on InstaKerm.com
 

Fireball in the sky, smoke in the water..

On the very sparsely populated planet, nobody claimed UFO's or so, but a huge light-ball crossed the sky, it happened to be our Kerbals. On slow decent trajectory using maximum earobraking techniques

And wow that frontal heatshield, it did a good job. The ride was quite stable most of the part.
Well in the end there was some spinning and Kerbals vomit went on all the walls, as a result of centrifugal force... 
(and oh the smell of it terrible).

Landing at sea

While vomit dripped from the walls parachutes automatically deployed, and while our Kerbals yearned for some clean air, we took a beautiful picture from our craft, with that famous mountain row in the back. Yes they almost landed in our backyard next to the potatoes.

Back on earth we all got rich and famous.

Well it was a mission with a huge payback both in science and in money. But most of all because an unexpected discovery we made about the wheels we used. Did anyone ever used wheels as floating devices ??. The whole ship was floating safely on its wheels, most of the ship remained dry.