In Game Start Date: Year 1, Day 1, 35m, 00s

In Game End Date: Year 1, Day 1, 4hrs, 47m, 49s

Summary: By utilizing an embiggened version of the existing Hammerhead suborbital rocket, KSP engineers saved a few kerbucks by tacking this mission onto the previous mission's budget while the president wasn't looking.

After careful deliberation KSP mission planners concluded that the dark was scary, and resolved to launch first thing in the morning. Nobody told Jeb, however, who happily spent the night making rocket sounds in the cockpit.

After launch Jeb was delighted to find the rocket massively overpowered, and mission control had quite a time convincing him that faster isn't always better.

At a final Kerbapsis of ~439m Jeb unexpectedly ejected himself from the rocket and began doing loops with his jetpack. Mission control was a bit amused by Jeb's antics, and even more pleased to discover that the spacesuit worked well enough to keep him alive. Luckily, remote controls allowed science to continue while Jeb tried to scurry back into the cockpit before crashing into the atmosphere at over 2000m/s unprotected. A bit more science could have been squeezed out of this mission if we had some sort of electricity-generating or electricity-storage device... someone remind me to tell R&D later...

Under extreme deceleration forces in excess of 15g, Jeb reported feeling a slight tingle in his left elbow.

After splashing down, engineers were surprised to find that the ship and Jeb's suit only allowed minimal amounts of water inside. The director was very impressed by their leak-proof-ness, and granted the R&D department funds to begin research on the remote controlable Stayputnik.

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Previous Mission: M03 - Suborbital Hop to Arctic

(edited) Tentative Future Mission Schedule

M05 - Probe moon flyby with science? - /u/ThePiachu

M05a - Scrounging for science - /u/Claymore2106

M05b - Unmanned Moon Flyby - /u/ThePiachu ? or /u/Claymore2106 ?

Mission Backlog

• Kerbin Biome Survey - A series of sub-orbital launches to perform preliminary science exploration of Kerbin's various biomes. - Mission Available