Space Program Tycoon

Date:  1951-03-10

With new research on the horizon it's time to start training our Kerbonauts as test pilots and scheduling in new programmes.

We're going to be working to meet two different mid-term objectives:

  1. Get a rocket plane programme up and running to perform crewed test flights. These will involve Kerbals and atmospheric flight, which poses quite different problems from our uncrewed sounding rocket. These will drop (eheheh) soon.
  2. Develop more sounding rockets capable of sub-orbital flights to do longer and faster 'downrange' missions on the way to our long-term objective of getting to Earth orbit.

Roadmap heading in to 1952


Both of these programmes will provide more Science; especially landing our first crewed flight!

Here's a sneak peek of a possible Y-Plane prototype (Y-Plane as in, Y are we wasting time with planes in a space program):


Next up though, are our next sounding rocket flight(s)...

Next Post: Continuing the SR-1 Project

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