Like almost everything done in KSP, you get the feeling that "that can't possibly work in real life". Then NASA rolls out deployment of a mars rover via "hovering sky crane, suspended on rockets, lowering rover to the ground by cable and winch" and you wonder if they've been playing KSP a bit too much.

But it did work after all.

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-------- Original Message --------
 On January 29, 2018 10:28 PM, Kelly St. Clair <xxxxxx@efn.org> wrote:

>On 1/29/2018 9:58 PM, Caleuche wrote:
>
>>Now _/*that */_is spaceflight: Launch from Earth directly from the
>> surface into trans-venus injection, aerocapture at Venus, lander descent
>> to the surface, surface operations, ascent above the bulk of the
>> atmosphere by balloon, a three stage SRB puts the sample into orbit,
>> docking with the return vehicle in Venus orbit, a >400 day ion spiral
>> out of Venus orbit and to trans-Earth Injection, followed by a high
>> velocity return from interplanetary transfer at earth.
>>
>
> The last few years have given me an adjective for this:
>
> Sounds very Kerbal.  :)
>
>
>
>Kelly St. Clair
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