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This episode we launch a sample return mission to Drissen and our crew around Demise gets a much needed resupply.
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This episode we launch a sample return mission to Drissen and our crew around Demise gets a much needed resupply.
Kerbol is dying. Thousands of years after first venturing into space, Kerbalkind finds itself on the brink of extinction. On a newly terraformed Duna, it rests on the shoulders of a single space agency to reach for the stars once more and find a new home.
Endurance is a career mode series set in the After Kerbin planet overhaul. The aim is to rediscover the methods of space exploration and develop the necessary technology to explore and colonise a new star system.
Discord:
discord.gg/EtbU7xr
Mods:
After Kerbin
Extrasolar
Kerbal Alarm Clock
Interstellar Extended
Strategia
Scatterer
Environmental Visual Enhancements
Distant Object Enhancement
KS3P
B9 Aerospace Extended
KW Rocketry
Kerbal Attachment System
Kerbal Inventory System
Research Bodies
Tarsier Space Technologies
Science! Here and now
USI Life Support
USI Kolonization
Flight Manager for Reusable Stages
Extra-planetary Launchpads
Crowdsourced Science
DeepFreeze
Contract Configurator






![Youre Wrong About Nuclear Fusion
Helium-3 is touted as an unlimited clean source of energy, but is it all its hyped up to be?
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