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The LV-10 test had been a definite low point and they still hadn't figured out exactly what went wrong. It helped that the grin hid a surprisingly competent engineer otherwise Geneney was fairly sure that Wernher would have stuffed Jeb headfirst into the engine bell of the LV-10 test model and probably fired it too. He'd kept them going, with his permanent grin and irrepressible enthusiasm, even as the other members of the Kerbin Interplanetary Society had gradually drifted away.
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And as for Jeb, he had never given up, despite all the difficulties, frustrations and exploded prototypes. If his best friends were risking themselves in a home-brewed rocket, then Bob would be there alongside them. Bill was still a believer Bob… well Bob was loyal. An occasional mumbled comment from Bill, Bob's nervous chatter and Jeb, talking up a storm in his enthusiasm. Geneney could hear voices far above him as Lucan helped the three cosmonauts into the capsule.
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Besides they had worked well enough in testing and none of them had been able to get the hydraulic pusher system to work reliably. No - best not to think about the decouplers. As for sticking them on with explosive bolts… In Geneney's opinion 'booster' was an optimistic name for a squat drum of firework propellant with a cone attached to the bottom. Four RT-5 solid fuel boosters attached to the sides by explosive bolts and a simple capsule secured to the top with more explosive bolts completed this most unlikely looking spacecraft.
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The rocket loomed above him, a battered metal cylinder with a tangle of plumbing at the base, connected to the familiar ribbed shape of the LV-15 engine bell. He reached the first of the launch clamps and inspected it carefully. Best not to think about the wretched decouplers. Getting the stability augmentation system to work had eventually been an exercise in stubbornness rather than elegant engineering. Wernher's original LV-1 engine had proven far far more difficult to scale up than any of them had imagined. And a last ditch attempt at a rocket that they had built from whatever junk they could scavenge up and weld together.
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A bunker full of worn out monitors and other abandoned electronic gear. A rusty launch tower constructed from old scaffolding. The reality of course was rather different. Ready to take him to the Mun, to Minmus or anywhere else he cared to go. A gleaming tower of sculptured metal rising into the sky with a cluster of the latest generation engines at the base and the newest, most spacious capsule sitting proudly at the top. He could see the rocket in his mind’s eye. It was a bright sunlit afternoon as Geneney walked out to the launch pad. For now, for better or for worse - no retconning.īefore the Space Program, before Mainsails and Mun rovers, before there was even such a thing as a probe core, there was just a group of friends with a shared dream who refused to let that dream go. At some point I'll probably go over the whole story and give it a thorough re-working, not least because this is my first significant piece of creative writing, so my style has. Last thing - this is the warts and all version. I can easily up the pace of new posts if requested. I'm not sure what SB forum etiquette has to say about posting large quantities of text in one go, so I'll be starting out with a couple of chapters at a time and seeing how things go from there. With that in mind, I thought it would be fun to cross-post First Flight here on SpaceBattles. If not, you owe it to yourself to hop over to the thread and give it a try! Along the way, Jake has been kind enough to include more than a couple of shout-outs to First Flight, my own KSP fan-fiction posted on the official forums. Any KSP enthusiasts here have probably already found Jake's superb tale of The Next Frontier.