![]() ![]() Not a pat-on-the-back trophy, created to convey incremental progress, but the successful completion of a challenging, self-made goal. I tell this story because it remains one of my greatest achievements in a game. Before descent, I transferred my Kerbal to a lander bolted on top of the launch payload (an over-engineered solution to my earlier fuel shortage.) Then I landed, and took one small step onto the surface. Nevertheless, it held steady through the launch ritual: keeping straight through the initial 10,000 meter ascent, the smooth transition to a suborbital arc and the controlled burn at the 70,000 meter apoapsis, first to orbit, then out of Kerbin's influence and into an encounter with Mun. It was the result of a hundred inelegant solutions to unforeseen problems. The successful rocket was ramshackle and ugly. Out of the countless defeats and sacrifices eventually came the answer. ![]()
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