Kaito
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After the disaster that was the first attempt, the United States Government decided that NASA was not cut out for the job of building a tourist space station. They completely cut off NASA's funding. Even with massive amounts of layoffs and cutbacks, they only have enough money to stay afloat for 3 months. The ESA is in a similar situation, but is still getting some funding. The only way NASA could receive funding again is to get that station operational.
NASA and the ESA collaborated and decided it would be best to contract Nae Technologies. Nae Technologies runs a small business doing odd jobs for hire. They jumped at this chance, seeing as how It would give them more orbital experience for their first unveiling of a new ship, set in the near future.
Nae Technologies required three XR-5's minimum, but were given that, plus two XR-1's, one as a command vessel and one strapped to a Solid Rocket Booster for emergencies, two XR-2's, one for XR refueling and one for emergencies, one Delta-Glider IV, for deployment of a satelite, one Ariane 6 rocket plus a Hera module, And a dragonfly class cargo tugger fitted with a remote manipulator system. And of course, the parts to build the station itself.
The Ariane 6 plus its Hera payload, dubbed "Eisenhower", Delta-Glider IV dubbed "Varsity", and the XR-5 Dubbed "Expo" all took off around the same time into approxamitly the same heading. Expo had a bit of trouble achieving orbit due to its unnaturally heavy payload of the Dragonfly and two full fuel tanks, but it managed with enough fuel to spare.
Varsity was determined to dock with Eisenhower first. However, when trying to locate it on its sensors, Varsity found the Hera well within earths atmosphere, only 100km above sea level. Varsity immediately contacted Headquarters and explained the situation. It was then decided that the mission would be post-poned; Varisty and Expo would rondevous with each other and stay in orbit until a new Hera class module could be produced and launched.
Eisenhower landed somewhere between Cuba and the northern tip of South America. Two-Tal, the emergency XR-2, is scheduled to find and examine what's left of Eisenhower sometime tomorrow. Nae insists that it was not their fault, and when looking back at the records, it seems that the autopilot Eisenhower was on cut out early. The cause is still unknown, and they are working with the ESA to get another Ariane 6.
More on this tomorrow
After the disaster that was the first attempt, the United States Government decided that NASA was not cut out for the job of building a tourist space station. They completely cut off NASA's funding. Even with massive amounts of layoffs and cutbacks, they only have enough money to stay afloat for 3 months. The ESA is in a similar situation, but is still getting some funding. The only way NASA could receive funding again is to get that station operational.
NASA and the ESA collaborated and decided it would be best to contract Nae Technologies. Nae Technologies runs a small business doing odd jobs for hire. They jumped at this chance, seeing as how It would give them more orbital experience for their first unveiling of a new ship, set in the near future.
Nae Technologies required three XR-5's minimum, but were given that, plus two XR-1's, one as a command vessel and one strapped to a Solid Rocket Booster for emergencies, two XR-2's, one for XR refueling and one for emergencies, one Delta-Glider IV, for deployment of a satelite, one Ariane 6 rocket plus a Hera module, And a dragonfly class cargo tugger fitted with a remote manipulator system. And of course, the parts to build the station itself.
The Ariane 6 plus its Hera payload, dubbed "Eisenhower", Delta-Glider IV dubbed "Varsity", and the XR-5 Dubbed "Expo" all took off around the same time into approxamitly the same heading. Expo had a bit of trouble achieving orbit due to its unnaturally heavy payload of the Dragonfly and two full fuel tanks, but it managed with enough fuel to spare.
Varsity was determined to dock with Eisenhower first. However, when trying to locate it on its sensors, Varsity found the Hera well within earths atmosphere, only 100km above sea level. Varsity immediately contacted Headquarters and explained the situation. It was then decided that the mission would be post-poned; Varisty and Expo would rondevous with each other and stay in orbit until a new Hera class module could be produced and launched.
Eisenhower landed somewhere between Cuba and the northern tip of South America. Two-Tal, the emergency XR-2, is scheduled to find and examine what's left of Eisenhower sometime tomorrow. Nae insists that it was not their fault, and when looking back at the records, it seems that the autopilot Eisenhower was on cut out early. The cause is still unknown, and they are working with the ESA to get another Ariane 6.
More on this tomorrow
Anyway I'm wondering: How did you add the Dragonfly as XR-5 payload?
