KSP - Apollo Direct Ascent - South Pole Landing - RSS / RP-0

Apollo direct ascent in Kerbal Space Program, RSS mod. Recreation with few kerbal variations. Direct ascent was a method for performing a manned landing on the Moon proposed in the United States for the Apollo program. It would have required developing an enormous launch vehicle, either the Saturn C-8 or Nova rocket, to launch the three-man Apollo spacecraft, with an attached landing module, directly to the Moon, where it would land tail-first and then launch off the Moon for the return to Earth. The other two options that NASA considered required a somewhat smaller launch vehicle, either the Saturn C-4 or C-5. These were Earth Orbit Rendezvous, which would have involved at least two launches to assemble the direct-landing and return vehicle in orbit; and Lunar Orbit Rendezvous (LOR), which carried a smaller two-man lunar lander spacecraft for flight between lunar orbit and the surface. LOR was the strategy used successfully in Apollo. Source: wikipedia Configuration showed in the video is slightly bigger than original concept. It consist of 9 F-1A engines (equivalent of almost 11 F-1 used in Saturn V) in the first stage, 9 J-2 engines in the second stage and 2 J-2 in the third stage. Launch Mass: 6 050,000 kg LEO Payload: 265,000 kg to a 200 x 200 km orbit at 28.00 degrees. Payload: 96,000 kg to a translunar trajectory. CREDITS: Music: Ride of the Valkyries - Wagner Outro: Into the Wormhole - Jingle Punks MODS: RSS, RO, RP-0, RVE, Scatterer. Remote Tech, KCT...