i kerballed my space program today
made a really satisfying landing of a reusable second stage from orbit to right on the center of the landing pad
Also just the idea and execution so-far of the current mission I'm doing has been really good
I have an SSTO spaceplane design that can sustain 1 Kerbal (person) long-term that has enough fuel it can insert into Duna (orbit) with just nuclear thermal engines and no refueling.
Meanwhile one launch of a heavy-lift 130ton-to-orbit rocket with that mentioned reusable second stage will launch a space station and fuel processor, comboed with a reusable miner / lander that mines Ike (moon of Duna) and docks with the space station to refuel the spaceplane repeatedly.
The space station and miner get moved to Duna with a nuclear fission + ionized lithium space tug (that's reusable and will return for reuse) by using a second launch of the heavy-lift rocket and docks in Kerbin (Earth orbit) with the station, carrying it to Duna (Mars)
If you can't tell, I'm a fuckin dork