What did you do in KSP today?

Yesterday saw the departure of the First Duna Expedition in my career save. The day began with the departure of an Auk VII 16-passenger spaceplane to the Kerbinport space station, where the remaining crewmembers assigned to the expedition boarded Strange Cargo in preparation for their journey:

Naturally, Strange Cargo had to depart the station at night. Night gives such great screenies, you know...

After Strange Cargo's departure, it was time for me to go to work planning a grand total of seventeen trans-Dunar burns, and I spent the bulk of my day performing those burns - and in this order: A Nostromo 7 ore hauler, a Hellhound 7 rover, the Ikeport space station, Strange Cargo, a Spamcan 7b lander, two Heartbreak Hotel 7 outpost modules, the refinery Scan Queen, the Dunaport space station, a second Nostromo, the refinery Enchova Central, an Old Bessie 7 fuel hauler, another Hellhound, a second Old Bessie, a third Hellhound, a second Spamcan, and finally the science lander Yokohama.

The craft of the First Duna Expedition all en route, with Kerbinport also visible.

Dunaport's transfer burn was the longest at just under eight minutes, and it was also the most interesting one because TAC Fuel Balancer didn't behave the way I expected it to:

Dunaport commencing its burn for Duna, with two Faux News modules attached.

I thought I had it set to drain the two transfer stages of the Faux News modules first. Trouble came up when they didn't drain evenly; I had to do some finagling during the burn to get the fuel loads to balance with one another. I did get the fuel situation straightened out, and once they were drained the two Faux News transfer stages were cast off; by then the craft was already on a Kerbin escape trajectory. I've already verified that each of the craft will approach close enough to Duna to get an encounter, though I'm a little concerned about the fuel status of the Ikeport space station. I think the craft will make Duna orbit, though I might have to aerobrake a bit more than I would like...

Once all the burns were completed, it was time to satisfy a stupid contract. For that, I turned to engineer Magster Kerman, who was hitching a ride at Dunaport:

Magster on EVA.

Using KAS/KIS, Magster attached a shopping cart wheel to the station's exterior. The wheel was tested on a Kerbin escape trajectory for contract, and then Magster proceeded to detach and stow the wheel. First money back from the mission...a mere √25k. Yay.

Finished up my day with a situation report of the bases in Kerbin's sphere of influence. The Minmusport space station needed a fuel run; serendipitously, the station was over the release point for an Old Bessie landing at the Deepwater Horizon refinery and it was daylight at the refinery (for once), so I just did a quick fuel run there. No problems. The Munport space station was in reasonable shape, so nothing was done there. Kerbinport needs fuel; the station's reserve tank is empty as is the fuel tank of Laggin' Dragon docked at the station, though Next Objective and Necessary Evil are fully fueled and ready to go. I'll be sending up an Auk VIII flight in the near future to address the fuel problem. I still need to return the Auk VII from the space station first - the VII and VIII are both part-heavy designs, and together they really kill the frame rate...

Finished my day with a simple parts test at KSC. Was going to do that with a KERBalloon, but apparently I failed to install KERBalloons when I upgraded from 1.3.0 to 1.3.1. I'll have to try to rectify that today...What did you do in KSP today?

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