11 million and rising.
eve mission proceeding well. i stranded 3 kerbals on the surface, entirely on purpose of course, i gave them a lab on wheels and even an aircraft to play with. il make not to send a rescue ship eventually.
while i was in the area i parked the mother ship in orbit of gilly. sent down a lander, not that its needed, you can land with a jetpack. of course the lander pretty much have one just because it has science instruments on it. you dont so much land as float on down really slow. moving between the mother ship and the surface is really fun. since my mother ship pretty much has 2 hitch hiker modules and a 3 man capsule, i can load it up with more than enough surface samples to kill off the last couple things on the science tree. this also required 3 trips back and fourth with bob and jeb taking turns. you pretty much just point your ship where you want to land and hit your thrusters, doing a 180 and burn before hitting the surface. when you want to go back home do the same thing, its just a much smaller target to hit.
now im debating whether or not i have enough fuel to go to moho and make it back to kerbin. seems every time i decide to go to moho after visiting eve, i end up getting stranded on the way back. ship has one each biggest and second biggest tank in the game (33% full), and 4 nervas. it is rather heavy with crew quarters for 11, even though i only brought 5 kerbals. it has a light lander < 1t (including fuel), i landed it at vall, so it can land on moho just fine. i was going to smash it into gilly, but if i go to moho il need to keep it to store the samples, since i filled all my storage space with surface samples and instrument readings from gilly. im pretty sure i have more than enough deltav to get to moho, though the plane change is expensive. assuming i have enough to get back to kerbin (probibly gravity assisting at eve) i can aerocapture there.
