This Season 2 stream on GopherCraft's multiplayer server picks up where the last one stopped, with Jebediah Kerman sitting in the lander Surprise! on the Mun. Jebediah flies it off the Mun and back toward Kerbin, but the capsule does not survive the trip down. Basket then builds The Success 2003 XLT with more fuel, lands Raysy Kerman in a crater on the Mun, and once again cannot get back into orbit.
Surprise! heads home
Surprise! sits on the gray ground of the Mun with Jebediah aboard. The commentary explains that another player landed it there so Jebediah could fly out, and that The Success 2001 XLT lies tipped over nearby with its engine and one leg broken off. Surprise! lifts off cleanly and reaches an orbit around the Mun. A crew report can be recorded but not sent, because the lander has no antenna.
A short burn sets up a path back to Kerbin, and the plan is to slow down in the atmosphere instead of with the engines. "You're going to do atmospheric braking, but correctly? Yeah, that's the idea." Before the burn, the commentary worries that dropping the engine stage will also drop the solar panels and batteries.
The ship comes into Kerbin's air still wrapped in its engines and lights up in flame. The camera ends up on a falling battery, and the game will not save until the battery lands. When it does, the Flight Results list it all: "Mk1 Command Pod exploded due to overheating," "Jebediah Kerman was killed," and the Z-200 Rechargeable Battery Bank "splashed down hard and was destroyed." The verdict is "Outcome: Catastrophic Failure!"
A bigger XLT
Science from the last flight goes into the research tree for a few new parts. Then Basket opens The Success 2002 XLT in the Vehicle Assembly Building. The last one flew well but ran out of fuel at the Mun, so this time the fix is more fuel. "We could double the amount of fuel that is in this, and we'll see how that works."
A viewer suggests bracing the boosters to the core with struts, and Basket adds them, along with extra ladders for the longer body. The design is saved as The Success 2003 XLT, with Raysy Kerman aboard.
Launch, revert, launch
The first climb goes well until the transfer to orbit. The burn time slips past before the engines fire, and the rocket has not finished its orbit. "I don't think this is recoverable." The Reverting Flight window comes up, and Basket goes back to the launch. "It's good practice."
On the second launch the gravity turn starts around 6,000 m at about 250 m/s, following a viewer's advice from the day before. This time the rocket makes orbit, a long burn sets up the Mun encounter, and a second burn on arrival puts it in orbit around the Mun. "I no longer feel like I want to quit the game."
Down in the Northwest Crater
A viewer suggests lowering the orbit on the dark side first, so the landing burn starts closer to the ground. A 49-second burn then takes off most of the sideways speed, and Basket drops straight down, waiting for the craft's shadow to judge the height. It lands on a slope. "Okay, don't tip over. Oh no, don't tip over. Okay, this might be okay. I actually have some fuel."
The science windows name the spot as the Mun's Northwest Crater. Basket runs the Mystery Goo, the thermometer and the barometer and transmits a crew report, then Raysy steps out for an EVA report. A surface sample would need a jump off the ladder, and with the ship leaning that far, Raysy climbs back in without one.
Not quite orbit
Basket lets the batteries charge and lifts off. The climb goes up, but the burn to finish the orbit comes up short. "Can we orbit? No, we can't orbit." With the craft falling back, Basket transmits everything aboard, one experiment after another, until the screen warns there is not enough electric charge to send the rest. The ship hits the Mun in a burst of flame, and the Flight Results read "Outcome: Catastrophic Failure!"
Where it ends
The stream closes at the Space Center. Jebediah Kerman's flight in Surprise! and Raysy Kerman's flight in The Success 2003 XLT both ended in Catastrophic Failure. The Success 2001 XLT Ship is still on the Mun, empty. "So that was almost a success. We were able to get off, get there, do some science." The goal for next time is the same: land on the Mun, do the science, and fly back, with enough fuel.