Season 5 is a modded single-player game in Science mode, and one goal of the season is that no kerbal dies. This video opens at the Space Center on Day 77 with 32.2 science, and it is mostly about the new parts: gardens, recyclers, labs and life support. Science10 becomes Science11, flies twice without a crew, then takes Bob Kerman to orbit to try the new parts out. Bob comes home to Kerbin's Highlands, and the season still has no kerbal lost.
A tour of the new parts
A checklist window titled [x] Science! comes up first, showing "33/744 complete" and every place a crew report or surface sample has yet to be taken. "This is a way to track some of the different things you can do."
In the VAB, the commentary reads part after part to work out how food will work on longer trips. The Nom-O-Matic "uses electricity and mulch and then produces some food." A recycling module "uses various materials and logical filters to reduce life support load." There are fertilizer and mulch tanks, a garden dome with plants inside, and a Launch Escape System. "This is really cool that I see this." A viewer suggests putting the escape tower on the abort action. The research labs need crew and power, and one experiment needs something called Eurekas. "How do you get Eurekas, and what are Eurekas?"
Two robot launches
Science10 is loaded and rebuilt: the lower engine goes, and a science bay, solar panels, batteries, a Nom-O-Matic, a recycler and mulch and fertilizer go on, with struts for the wobble. The new name is Science11. Jebediah Kerman sits in it on the pad for a ladder test, which is called off before anyone climbs out: "Okay, let's not do it then."
The first robot launch sits on the pad until enough fuel burns off, then climbs, leaning and wobbling, out of the atmosphere. Out there the Plant Growth experiment shows 0 of 50 Eurekas, and the rocket is left to fall. A viewer suggests fuel lines so the outer tanks empty first. Fuel lines go on, every bottom engine fires, and the second test leaves the pad at once. "So it takes off right away, so that's already, that's good." It is also left to crash. "I apologize for all the sea life."
Bob on the ladders
Bob Kerman, a scientist, flies alone in the Mk1 Command Pod. "For re-entry I only have one spot." The seats in the Mobile Processing Lab and the Nom-O-Matic stay empty.
Science11 reaches orbit around Kerbin, and the scary test begins: can Bob take the ladders down to the lab section? Bob works along the side of the hull, but the ladders stop short. "Okay, so he can't get from there." The crew transfer option does not help either, and Bob climbs back into the pod.
![Bob Kerman, a small white-suited figure, holding onto the side of Science11 in orbit beside the prompt [Space]: Let go, with a Crew Hatch label on the long gray hull and a wide module with three round windows at the right, the navball reading Orbit 2260.0m/s](https://www.basketmc.com/images/6792/conversions/bob-kerman-a-small-white-suited-figure-holding-onto-the-side-c53d41b7-content-image.webp)
Switching the recycler on drains the batteries faster than the little solar panels fill them. "Big solar panels for this." The Life Support Status window lists 5,000 supplies on Science11 and gives Bob 1 year and 36 days of them. "He has quite a bit of food."
Down into the Highlands
With nothing more to learn up there, a short burn sets up the return. The spent stages fall away and the capsule burns in.
The parachutes open over hilly ground, and the capsule comes down on a slope without landing legs. "We're not rolling too much." Bob climbs out, takes a surface sample and files an EVA report. "Welcome to the mountains."
Where it ends
Bob tries to climb back aboard, the capsule rolls, and Bob is recovered on the spot. The Mission Summary for Bob Kerman lists a surface sample and an EVA report from Kerbin's Highlands, 11.4 science, for 43. Science11 is then recovered from the Tracking Station for 1.7 more. In the tech tree, Command Modules costs 160 and nothing is bought. The video ends at the Space Center on Day 77 with 45.3 science, no kerbal lost, and a plan for "bigger stuff" with ways to reach the lab.