the Curiosity Mars Landing.
Duna is the equivalent of Mars
in the Kerbal universe, and Ellison
worked to perfectly recreate the
landing of NASA’s Curiosity rover on
Mars which used the sky-crane landing method. A small rocket carrying
the rover parachutes down to the
Martian surface, then fires rockets
to hover in mid-air before lowering
the rover the rest of the way to the
surface on a cable. To the average
person, this may seem like a complicated mission to take on, but for
someone that works for NASA and
is constantly exposed to these concepts, the fact that above