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Details
- Type: VAB
- Class: lander
- Part Count: 62
- Mods: 3
- KSP: 1.9.1
Touchdown!
Liftoff!
Mods
- Making History DLC
- ReStock+
- Squad (stock)
To orbit!
Docked with the Europa station
Description
After a debate gone violent over the specifications of a standardized lander for the moons of Kerbin went violent, the Aergia Space Agency (ASA) broke away from the National Aerospace Development Group (NADG). The issue at hand was whether an Apollo-style mission, with a separate lander and command and service module or a lander capable of both landing on the lunar surface and returning to the Kerbin surface safely, was the solution for the next generation of lunar landers.
The conflict between the two companies eventually escalated into an all-out space race to the Mun.
The LECRU
Lunar Crewed Return Unit was the ASA submission into the contest. The ASA subscribed to the belief that a lunar lander should not have to rely on a separate return capsule, but rather that the return capsule should be brought down to the lunar surface. While this lead to an increase in complexity for all the involved mechanisms to combat lunar dust, it did negate the need for a complex and heavy docking system to be hauled back and forth from the lunar surface - a fact that the ASA design completely ignored.
The final design has been described as an overly expensive and complex mess with minimal safety systems. The lander has more than enough fuel to land on both the Mun and Minimus and return to Kerbin - it is thusly recommended on the official specifications papers that a large portion of the fuel tanks should be left more or less half empty
, something which baffled aeronautic engineers, who never designed their extremely advanced space tech-fuel tanks to hold less than their full capacity worth of fuel on launch.
