Astronaut rescue mission

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Ok last suggestion from me today (would have put them in one post but people pefer them to spread them out) here is one incentives for people to use helicopters or VTOLs on search and rescue.

And that is to pickup the astronauts. This one mostly done during the Apollo programs but also done and few other occasions.
The event is special and RARE (like in real life), basically search and find that rocket capsule that astronauts tend to use when returning back to earth, they typically land in the ocean.
So you either use a helicopter or VTOL to find that capsule in the ocean somewhere, and you get rewarded with plenty of WP or cash.

To make it special, devs can make it very rare or only appear on the OSS like how Lynwood or Valois also have special event jobs.

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so sar but rarer and more weepee

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yes since this was a famous event

all they need to do is just find that rocket capsule.. shouldnt be too hard to implement

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shouldnt the exact location of the capsule be known

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ehh still kinda of have to look for it... due to signal cutout and whatnot

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theyre worth 10 million dollars.

they have an intended landing place

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yes but still have to roughly look for it

also Im pretty sure the US have lost more expensive stuff compare to that LOL

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multiple potentially active nuclear warheads.

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yes LMAO

quite a few

one is still sitting at Greenland for who knows how long

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they have a range

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6

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its not that big

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but not the exact pinpoint location

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but theres also a designated spot

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it took 40 minutes to find scott carpenter

especially back then

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yeah and the signal cutout from the rentry means that they still have to go looking for it

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searching for astronauts was way harder than it is now

and gemini 8 too

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well it aint hard now.

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it was supposed to land in the atlantic i think

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totally forgot about Gemini lol

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but ended up in fucking okinawa

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thats one hell of a calculation error

not first time tho

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it was an emergency

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oh ok

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scott got lost because of his dumdum

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yeah

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used up too much fuel to take photos

still

good suggestion imo

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it would vary from sar

but i like the idea

[lavish patio]

also in addition to astronauts rescue I can also add 'recovery of rockets" like the Space Shuttle main booster and such

tho do they use heli on that ?

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oh yeah the srb

they put them on boats i think

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ah ok

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this would make eiko space center 10x more useful

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but theyre specially designed floating platforms

less boats

more like raft

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the US SPace Shuttle actually used boats for recovery

but not the Falcon 9 series

[idle tulip]

Dunno if it’s already in-game but Space Shuttle transport (aboard either modified 747 or An-225 for Buran) would be so cool

Would also be cool with a mission to recover an F9 booster

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this is a very good idea i must say

peak suggestion

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cool idea

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whats up inactive exams

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trve

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https://tenor.com/view/feel-that-feel-that-that's-trve-that's-gif-10514194515938974904

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make it so you can get hit by the pod and explode midair

great idea

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or you can catch it midair

i think that was a thing too

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spacex moment

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lol

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ah yeah it was those things

the uhhh

spy satellite whatnots

[idle tulip]

What if we had this but for those old ~~ spy~~ research satellites? (Keyhole/CORONA)

[dusk jacinth]

add SH-3/HH-52 with this!

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I think they have "nuclear material transport" which is rated purple I think, but I dont recall an actual space shuttle, those might be just for asthetics

probably would be similar, besides the massive drag they add

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Kibo

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It's a lot easier to find the capsule today.

However, a emergency search (incase in an event where Abort Alpha 1-2 Bravo 1-2,) is needed would be a lot harder.

Bravo 2 would be the hardest.

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wait yeah

that's like saying us space center

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i dont like that there isnt any realistic space centres in the game tbh

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Is it, real life space centers?

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might ask the devs to add Houston Center then... many people wanted Bush International or San Antonio but Houston Johnson Space Center would be better

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bruh at that rate we might as well give the F-15 the special job to shoot one down as well LOL

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I know a few people wanted KSC, but it’s not going to happen due to how huge it is.

The current plan is to use KSP KSC.

From what a dev said.

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ah ok interesting

except I bet a lot of people will be crashing there like in the actual KSP gameplay LMAO

they did made the whole model in Combined Arms

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if we count canaveral aswell it would prob be 10x bigger

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could work around kibo space center ngl

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old 66 much