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Post by Guest Wed Dec 03, 2014 10:01 am

It is a great day for socialist engineering and the Proletariat as the PSA announces its ambitions to send a Kerbal on a Minmus flyby. Construction for this mission has been going on for a while in secrecy and a Kerbal was chosen to lead the WPRP and its people into glory. Leonardo Penelope was chosen to represent the proletariat in the first mission ever to send a kerbal above LKO. We will follow the developments closely, and we have him here for an interview.

The entire room is filled with cameras from different broadcasting stations around the WPRP, with most kerbals in the WPRP watching the interview live, to get more news and maybe even gossip from their newly found hero.

"Thank you for letting us having you here Leonardo, let's begin with telling a bit about yourself. Who are you, where did you learn to fly, where were you born?"

"It is my pleasure, thank you for having me. I was born and raised in Terripana in the capital 25 years ago and lived with my mother, father and three sisters. I joined the political party at age of 20 and also did military service. I served as a fulltime pilot in the Terripanan airforce untill recently when I was selected for a preliminary training of future astronauts. The PSA seemed to like my results and chose me as their first pilot to fly the Minmus 1 mission. It is essentially a kyuxan made Raket 2 and a MO-1 Pickelhaube command module."

"Very exciting, tell me, how long is this journey expected to take? Also where will it start, where will you be blasted from?"

"When the time is right, I will be transfered to the Segerlinen Launch Center near Bardemanstadt, where everyone interested can either see it directly from the spectator area or even from their homes if they live close enough. The journey is estimated to take about 4-5 days to acomplish. I will bring with me a live camera and a camera for purely still motion pictures, a live feed will start around the second or third day of my journey if everything goes to plan."

"That is IF things go to plan, I think we both know from recent events that space is a very dangerous place to travel in never the less traveling to Minmus. Is there anyone at home whom you will miss, or who will miss you if the worst case scenario happens?"

"The tragedy that happened a while ago must never be repeated, thus PSA engineers has worked around the clock to make sure that no systems malfunctions will happen. However if the unthinkable happen, then I will have a son who will not see his father again. However that is a risk that needs to be taken for not just myself, or the WPRP but for all of kerbal kind."

"Spoken like a true hero. Two final questions before we have to end this broadcast. The so called space race died long ago, is this just a public stunt or does the PSA have any future plans for the moons or space itself? Also, would any of this be possible for a Terripanan to achieve without the unity between the proletariat and the WPRP?"

"While the PSA won't tell me everything about future exploration, I'd say it is wise to assume that once you choose a trail in the forest to get home, you follow that trail and doesn't stop along the way. And no, nothing of this would ever be possible without cooperation. This is the beauty with the WPRP, it is a nation of wide nationalities who disregard of race or social class but work for the betterment of kerbal kind to advance science, living conditions and where everyone from big to small is represented. Our GPS system, communication satellites, and kerbin observation satellites has all increased the living standards and helped with everyday tasks more than we could even imagine. One can only imagine what scientific discoveries we can make with this exploration. This will surely be the greatest adventure of not only my lifetime but the life time of kerbalkind!"

"We are all very eager to see you making this journey. May whatever god you pray to make your journey safe and return safely to us for a heros welcome. You are not only the pride of the Terripanan people or the proletariat, but all the people in the world. Thank you for comming."

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Post by Guest Wed Dec 03, 2014 12:21 pm

Its 03.00 in the morning, and the streets has been emptied of people, except the occasional kerb who is getting to or home from a night shift in Terripana. A military jeep silently drives through the city with kerbals in uniforms inside. It doesn't take long untill the jeep parks on one of these streets outside a suburban house. A uniformed kerb steps out of the car, and walks up the walkway through the well tended garden and knocks on the door.

One knock, two knocks. The soldier gets impatient and bangs on the door probably waking up one of the neighbours. A Leonardo finally opens the door.

"W-w-who do you think you are knocking in the middle of the...."

The kerb shows his ID-Card, Col. Sanches of the Terripanan Military District.

It is time comrade, time to make history. Pack your things, say your farewells. We'll leave in thirty minutes."

Leonardo, just realising what is happening, suddenly feels clearly awake, as if he has slept for an eternety. He quickly packs a weeks worth of clothes, or I guess you really can't call that packing, more like desperately trying to fit a pile of clothes, toothbrushes and pictures into a small bag. He takes his farewells to his son and wife, then enters the car and heads out in the night.

The car leads them to the international airport. The private jet with Segerlinen markings are already standing there, just waiting for him to embark so it can take off to Segerline. As he walks into the aircraft a Segerlinen delegate welcomes him.

"Welcome, most welcome comrade Penelope. I hope the journey wasn't too much of a inconvienience. Please take a seat. Fancy a coffee?"

"Yes please, no milk and sugar. So, when will it happen?"

The Kahlawians are currently preparing the launch of the test mission to test a replica of your capsule for any unforseen eventualities. You will spend your time in the Segerlinen launch and mission control and observe this mission closely. Once they give the greenlight of the functionality of the capsule, you will enter the rocket and do the final preparations for take off. Oh, and you will also be on a public relations campaign, holding some speeches and taking some photos."

"But I haven't prepared any speeches..."

"Which is why the politbureu took the liberty of writing them for you. Study them closely." He hands over paper after paper filled with patriotic speeches from the moment that he reaches Segerline to that he lands on Kerbin again.

The following days were filled with speeches, countless pictures being taken by press and last minute rehershals of the mission in simulators. Up untill the moment he was put in quaranteen, because no one wanted him to be sick and geopardise the mission, he was placed in a weeks sterile quaranteen, in preperation for the mission. Still conducting interviews through the glass window infront of excited reporters and even some school classes.

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Post by Guest Wed Dec 03, 2014 12:54 pm

It was time, the time everybody was waiting for. The Kahlawian tests had been most successful and all final preparations were made.

On his way up the elevator in the launch tower, his assistance were giving all kinds of advice for him.

""If the red buttom flashes, then press..."

He didn't listen too much to them. He was in his own world, it wasn't untill now he really realised what he had gotten himself into. He was to be strapped on top of a rocket sending him flying countless of miles further than no one had ever gone, to a distant moon that you barely can make out with your eyes from the surface. He took comfort in that atleast he wasn't alone, another pilot where going through the exact same things at the moment, preparing for his munar mission.

The elevator reached the top floor. A big walkway leading to his capsule was right in front of him. He takes a step forward onto the platform, and immedietly the anthem starts playing in loudspeakers throughout the space center. Thousands upon thousands of people of various ethnicities cheers and waves the WPRP flag and countless of pictures are being taken for news papers.

He smiles and waves to the crowd. His asistants opens the hatch, and he steps inside, preparing the final preparations of the mission.

Over in mission control things are very tense, they don't want another screw up, especially not at this scale. After the preparations are done, the launch sequence starts.

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 main engine start, 1, lift off we have lift off! Minmus 1 lifts off from the Segerlinen Space Center at 26 past the hour, god bless you!" The crowd cheers as the rockets heads into space.

Lift off:

100 m/s all systems nominal, start gravity turn.
Gravity turn started.
Boosters are empty, drop stage one.
Stage one discarded.
Main booster empty, open the fairings and seperate the launch vehicle
Seperation, plus fairings discarded.
Aproaching Apoapsis, drop second stage and commence orbital burn.
Commencing
Orbital burn complete.
Roger that, wait until node point alpha, and conduct minmusian interception burn.

Stage 2 seperation and orbital burn:

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"Mission control to Minmus-1, we have completed the our system checks on our side, we advice you to do the same before you reach the point of no return."

"Roger that, I am looking through our systems as we speak, everything seems nominal. I am confident that I can start the Minmusian Interception burn at node point alpha and reach the point of no return."

He prepares for the interception burn, and his heart starts pounding harder than ever before. If anything, anything at all goes wrong, he will die a very horrible death. He looks down to the medicine compartment in the craft and opens the cabinet door for a brief moment. He spots the cyanide pill that he had recieved moments before launch. "In case something goes wrong, it is a easy and painless way out" is what they had said. He closes the door and puts on the safety, he would never sink to that level. He thought, or rather hoped.

For every second he came closer to his burn point. (Ten, nine...) he put all his second thoughts aside and focused on the mission (Three, two...) he presses the ignition buttom (Ignition). He felt the brute force of the rocket once more in his back.

The burn was over, he had now reached the point of no return, if anything went wrong now, he would not be able to return home. However that was kinda not his concern at the moment. He had survived one of the most dangerous parts of the mission. He knew the entire world were cheering as we speak, and astronomers and radar stations probably monitored him and his destination right now.

Leonardo released his seatbelt and took off his helmet and placed it in the rear. He then proceeded to inspect the module more to see for the absolute last time that he hadn't forgotten something. Not that it would matter at this point, as there would be no one to call, but it made him feel comfort atleast.

He opened the "Public Relations" compartment which held two cameras, one for live feeds, one for fancy pictures, a microphone and a bunch of papers containing speeches that he was to hold during the journey. There was another compartment left of the public relations that was called "Morale Booster" inside there was a diskette player that had all of the WPRP and Terripanan patriotic songs on it, that the People's Liberation Army corps had recorded just for him. There were also a bunch of photographs of his family and some snacks.

"This shouldn't be too bad... just five days in this sardine can and I will be home." He thought to himself. Just as he thought that, he found a great moment for a picture as he looked out the window. He immedietly grabbed his camera and snapped a photo of Kerbin.

"I guess this is offically the first photo ever taken by a kerbal on a intercepting trajectory with minmus." He muttered for himself, he would break many world records this flight. The picture was later dubbed the Blue Marble and became a picture to symbolise the achievements of socialism in foremost Terripana.

Blue Marble:

Now he had free time to chat with CAPCOM and just relax for a moment except for the schedueled systems checks and proceedures he had to do. However in a few hours he would have to proceed with his last burn to correct the inclination of his orbit, and also conduct a live feed to raise morale at home.

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Post by Guest Wed Dec 03, 2014 7:16 pm

Eleven Million Meters from Kerbin

"Welcome to Die Warheit! Bringing you the truth, every day on your tv screen! Today we have the privelage to show you the first ever live feed taken by a kerb outside Low Kerbin Orbit."

The camera view changes to the live feed onboard Minmus-1.

"Welcome onboard the Minmus-1 people's of the world. My name is Leonardo Penelope and am the pilot of this beautiful craft. Thank you for letting me host this show!"

"Oh, it is our pleasure indeed. Tell me Leonardo, how is it inside that space craft? Isn't it a bit nervewracking to be on a journey that no one has ever made before?"

"I would lie if I told you that this isn't a bit nervewracking at all. In fact I was terrified prior to the Alpha Node burn which sent me on a Minmus intercepting orbit. I'd say that it is a bit cramped inside this craft, however I guess no one can expect a three room luxury suite as they travel to Minmus for the first time." He says jokingly.

"As a matter of fact, let me give you a tour of my humble holdings!"

He gave a detailed view of the command module with the cyanide pill pre placed in his pocket to avoid people seeing it.

"That is a very interesting module to travel in, now tell me. Where are you right now, and when are you expected to reach Minmus?"

"I am at the very altitude that my WPRP collegue launched from Kahlawia will achieve, that is 11 000 KM from Kerbin. I am expected to reach Minmus which has an altitude of 46 000 KM in two and a half day."

"While I can imagine it being very exciting and honouring to be traveling with the first manned craft to Minmus, I can also imagine it not being a pleasure ride. Tell me, what is your order of buisness ahead?"

"Well my current job is to maintain a routine control of the onboard systems to make sure that they don't malfunction. In a few hours I will also have to do the preparations and commence a small correction burn to flyby Minmus at desired altitude and angle. However even astronauts have free time, so during the freetime I listen to music, take pictures of Kerbin and Mun, aswell as talking with CAPCOM."

"Very exciting indeed. We can assure you that at the moment millions of people are looking up in the sky or at this broadcast in the hopes of that everything will go to plan. You are a hero back home."

"And that is it for the live feed from Minmus-1. However we will continue with our live broadcast here on Kerbin to give you the latest news and gossip that you want and need to hear. As always, you heard it first from Die Wahrheit!"


View from Minmus-1 during the time of the interview:

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Post by Guest Wed Dec 03, 2014 9:07 pm

1 h to Minmusian Flyby

Its been three long days since he was sent into space, three long days from home. Only thing that he could do except the routine was to listen to music, doing live broadcasts, taking pictures and chatting with people from mission control. Besides it being dull at some times, Leonardo loved the trip, and he couldn't wait untill he reached Minmus and once more write history.

Long, Long way from home:

Minmusian Flyby

There it was, Minmus! He had finally reached Minmus, a historic day for Kerbalkind. He took a picture that he knew would go to history, the first picture ever taken by a kerb on Minmus from this distance. He is also the first kerb to ever observe the Minmusian south pole in person. After the picture he prepared the live-feed.

"This just in from Minmus-1 to Die Warheit, your daily truth! Minmus-1 has finally reached Minmus in this historic mission. On air now, we have Leonardo Penelope our Terripanan hero. How's it going over there Penelope?"

"Things are going just great and it is absolutely amazing. Today is a very special day, not only for me, or my family, the Terripanan people or even the WPRP. But for all of Kerbal kind, for today we have proven many things. We have proven that it is possible to survive a journey from Kerbin to Minmus, we have proven that Kerbal kind is ready to take its foot outside its cradle and take a step outwards into our neighbourhood. We have also proven the beauty of cooperation. Seven nations working together has lead to the most grand adventure in the history of Kerbal kind. This triumf was not made by swords, or a attempt to make a ICBM. This triumf was made by ploughs, a peaceful exploration of the Kerbin system for the advancement of all Kerbal kind. This shows that the World People's Republic of the Proletariat is not interested in war, but in peace for all of Kerbal kind. It shows that we as a collective can work together and achieve great things. One day, one might set foot on this barren moon, in another adventure that will advance kerbal kind even further.

As you look up in the night sky and watches the green mossy speck in the distance. Remember that we have now been there, and that it was not made by an individual for self gain, but as a cooperation between peoples to bring out the inherit goodness of Kerbal kind. Thank you all for making this possible, long live the proletariat!"

"More true words has never been spoken. Now awaits two and a half days journey back to Kerbin for a heros welcome. We invite everyone watching this, regardless of nationality, regardless of political belief, regardless of social class or age. To take a trip to Bardemanstadt and welcome this hero during the parade in three days."

Minmus South Pole:

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Post by Guest Thu Dec 04, 2014 10:59 am

The journey was more dull one the way home. The apex of the journey had already been achieved, the trip was mainly filled with some course corrections , and for that last speed bleeding burn at kerbin periapsis.

Almost home:

100 KM above Kerbin

"Mission control to Minmus 1, prepare next to last retrograde burn."
"Roger Bardemanstadt, Minmus 1 is ready for retrograde burn ETA two minutes."

He prepared himself and made sure that everything was in place under straps.

"One minute, starting the burn sequence."
"Burn commencing."
He felt the heavy G-Forces of the rocket in full throttle behind him, always keeping tab on the stage specific fuel gauge.
"Third Stage empty, seperation."
"Fourth Stage burn commencing."
"Burn complete, low kerbin orbit achieved."

Everyone in mission control were applauding and opening champagne bottles. Now it only were a regular de-orbit burn left, then our hero would return home!

Kerbin De-Orbit burn and Reentry

"Mission control, I am commencing de-orbit burn, radio communications are expected to be cut off during reentry. Minmus 1 out!"

He did the last short burn needed for the mission. It had been four days in space and he was almost home now. However he could not fool himself, reentry was one of the most dangerous parts of a space flight. He took a deep breath, and commenced the burn. The burn was very slow, but could be the last thing he did.

The burn was complete, he retracted his solar panels, and seperated his spent stage. He perpared himself mentally for the extreme G-Forces that awaited him. And so it began, he could see the flames consuming his craft as he flew over the waters west of Fisnavavaada. The craft had a burning trail behind it so that all Fisnavavaadians, some Gladians and Narconans could see. He reached proper altitude and the parachute was deployed. He had made it!

The craft landed south of Terripana in the ocean and a group of frogmen from FSS Proletariat picked him up and escorted him to safety in Terripana. He would recieve a heros welcome.

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