Part 22: Spring 1962: Pre-Vote
Two news pictures this time, as you get smacked with a rather unfortunate double whammy. A 'Pay or Safety' decision for the Titan (which is amazingly small on both ends), Crews is a failure, and Kincheloe has annouced retirement as well. I'm pretty sure he'll stick around for this season and its launches, but will be gone the next. Note that this will break up one of your two Gemini teams when he actually leaves.
I've got nothing else to report, I believe. You've got 141 MB to work with this season, the screenshot shows 131 since I hit yes on the Pay for Safety prompt, but that won't stick until after the season is done entirely, so you can choose to ignore it if you wish. Now for the status report (I've removed Explorer as it's no longer likely to be used):
Purchased Projects and relevant information
Ranger Satellite
Unit Cost: 4
R&D Cost Per Team: 3
Unit Weight: 700
Current Safety: 45%
Max R&D: 90%
Max Safety: 93%
Other Notes: This is for the various Flyby missions.
Atlas
Unit Cost: 3
R&D Cost Per Team: 2
Max Payload: 600
Current Safety: 86%
Max R&D: 84%
Max Safety: 98%
Titan
Unit Cost: 12
R&D Cost Per Team: 4
Max Payload: 1500
Current Safety: 91%
Max R&D: 90%
Max Safety: 98%
Mercury Capsule
Unit Cost: 2
R&D Cost Per Team: 1
Unit Weight: 500
Current Safety: 81%
Max R&D: 80%
Max Safety: 90%
Other Notes: One man capsule. No Lunar Landings or Docking ability.
Gemini Capsule
Unit Cost: 6
R&D Cost Per Team: 2
Unit Weight: 1200
Current Safety: 85%
Max R&D: 84%
Max Safety: 94%
Other Notes: Two man capsule. Can make it to the moon with a kicker and also dock. Can use a 1 man LM.
EVA Suits
Unit Cost: 0
R&D Cost Per Team: 1
Unit Weight: 0
Current Safety: 91%
Max R&D: 91%
Max Safety: 94%
Other Notes: It's a spacesuit. Needed for EVA stuff.
Docking Module
Unit Cost: 2
Unit Weight: 300
Current Safety: 45%
Max R&D: NOT POSSIBLE
Max Safety: 93%
Other Notes: The only thing that CANNOT be researched. All safety improvement comes from live testing. Required for most of the Lunar Landing mission types.
Equipment List
Missions you could attempt
Refer to this post for a list of all possible missions
Astronaut Stats and Location
Grissom: Cap 3, LM 0, EVA 0, Dock 3, End 2, 87 Mood, Mercury Program
Schirra: Cap 3, LM 2, EVA 0, Dock 0, End 1, 71 Mood, Mercury Program
Cooper: Cap 3, LM 3, EVO 0, Dock 0, End 4, 66 Mood, Gemini Program (This guy is awesome.)
Slayton: Cap 4, LM 1, EVA 1, Dock 0, End 1, 99 Mood, Gemini Program
Kincheloe: Cap 4, LM 1, EVA 0, Dock 1, End 2, 70 Mood, Gemini Program, Retiring
Walker: Cap 3, LM 0, EVA 3, Dock 0, End 2, 59 Mood, Nowhere
Wood: Cap 1, LM 1, EVA 0, Dock 0, End 2, 75 Mood, Mercury Program
Young: Cap 2, LM 3, EVA 1, Dock 2, End 0, 93 Mood Gemini Program
Conrad: Cap 2, LM 2, EVA 1, Dock 1, End 4, Basic III
Borman: Cap 4, LM 0, EVA 0, Dock 0, End 2, Basic III
Armstrong: Cap 4, LM 4, EVA 0, Dock 2, End 1, Basic III
See: Cap 2, LM 2, EVA 0, Dock 2, End 4, Basic III
Knight: Cap 4, LM 3, EVA 0, Dock 0, End 1, Basic III
Givens: Cap 2, LM 1, EVA 0, Dock 1, End 2, Basic III
Equipment in Stock
1 Ranger Satellite
Missions to occur this season
Pad A: Unmanned Orbital Docking
Pad B: Manned Orbital Duration C
Voting for what to do will end at 5:00PM EST on Monday, Feb 28th.