"Starkerbal" launches on the GDLV5 Heavy

Year 25, Day 201

The newly developed GDLV5 Heavy has debuted, and an odd figure of great rememberance rode aboard on its maiden voyage.

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"Starkerbal" was an idea proposed by SpaceK's Chief Executive Officer Elon Kerman, who thought "wouldn't it just be so fun to put a dummy Kerbal into solar orbit with my new rocket?"

And so he did. The realistic dummy Kerbal inside the car in the payload bay was named the Starkerbal as it was gonna be "voyaging among the stars or whatever."

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Upon launch, forces shook the car violently but thanks to its robust design, it did not tear apart. Everyone was hoping that it would explode; except Elon. It would probably have been "one hell of a fireworks show" according to a viewer.

But it didn't. It made it to orbit, opened the fairing, accelerated out of Kerbin orbit and deployed its payload. Yes, the whole mission was designed to prove that SpaceK could haul a car into Kerbol orbit.

Kerbals far and wide were skeptical as to the said reasons of the mission, but those were just conspiracy theorists after all.