Have you ever been driving a car and thought, yeah this is pretty cool, but I wish I could connect with adjacent cars to make like a bigger car? Well dream no more!
Presenting the Modular Car. As you can see, it has docking ports on all four sides for convenient modularity.
Intimidate aggressive drivers! Park in tight spaces! Save on gas money probably!
Naturally, it should be stackable.
We choose to send a Modular Car stack to the moon not because it is easy, but because it is ridiculous.
First stage detached, making the burn to Kerbin orbit. Looks sweet with the lights on.
Hold it right there, the Moon! This is the space cops. Have you been drinking anything tonight ma'am?
Touchdown! The lander is real dodgy, it's super bouncy and top-heavy. Some of my engineering choices in general were pretty questionable, and I certainly learned a bit over the course of this project.
The way I used to unload the cars was awesome...I dropped the whole stack, precariously rolled it away, and then lifted the cars off one by one from the top using the internal rockets. Unfortunately this was extremely inconsistent, especially with the moon's low gravity and hilly terrain. So I switched to the (in retrospect, obvious) method of just keeping them attached to the lander, then dropping them one at a time from the bottom--all I had to do was adjust the staging.
Your tax dollars at work.
Done without quicksaves! After numerous failed attempts. The temptation was strong to just jump the final construction off a crater and hit the jets, but I will keep it up there for now...I might return with more cars, that's the point after all! I've got ideas to tweak the design some more, but I'm pretty burnt out on this right now haha. I would eventually like to send some to Mars or Moho; I haven't even attempted any interplanetary travel at all. Or maybe try for some proper space docking now that I've experimented with it on the ground.