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SpaceK's "Donnager" spacecraft will be the lander for Muna III; and it may take Kerbals to Duna one day

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Year 29, Day 388 It has been confirmed that the newly developed Donnager spacecraft by SpaceK will land Kerbals back on the Mun on Muna III; and, it will also probably take Kerbals to Duna for crewed missions one day. That's right; this new shiny spacecraft, named the Donnager, will use a variant of itself fit for Mun landings, named Donnager KLS (Kerbal Landing System), to land on the Mun for the Muna missions, or, more specifically, Muna III. Keep in mind, as of this post, not even Muna II has happened yet; this is only planned. It very well could change, and probably will only be like this for Muna III, and maybe, possibly, Muna IV. Other than it being used for future Mun landings though, it will also (again, probably) be used to bring Kerbalkind to the red sands of Duna. If it is used for that, it'll be one hell of a ride; that is for sure. The spacecraft/rocket itself went through several Serial Number iterations before it was able to be put on what's known as the Be...

KS-Arm2 grabs onto an entire rocket to test its high-weight payload systems

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Year 19, Day 168 So, KSA and SpaceK have finally collaborated on something fantastically weird; an odd project of grabbing onto a rocket, using the KS-Arm2 that's on the Kerbal Space Station (KSS). Now, there are multiple reasons they did this. One of those reasons being, KSA wanted to test the upper limits of what the KS-Arm2 could lug around. So, it grabbed SpaceK's newest "soon-to-be automated" spacecraft, the Kerman KX1 vehicle. The vehicle is one day planned by SpaceK to be a direct replacement of the Kerb-Shuttle, so that when inevitably, the Kerb-Shuttle program does die, we still have a way to get to the space station and do other things in space. As for the arm carrying the craft around, it was able to carry it from one side of the station to the other, wrapping around the truss. As a plus, the Kerb-Shuttle Explorer recently visited the station again in mission KS-15 to deliver supplies to the station after the Kerbonauts quote: "ran out of snacks....