Hauling Shuttles to Woomerang :: Mission Background

WARNING, SPOILERS AHEAD!! 😝 This mission takes place after the events on the still ongoing SkyLab Program!

With the blatant success of the SkyLab Program, key component of the Early Space Exploration Initiative, the MaKLA (Make KSC Ludicrous Again) Committee was put in charge of a Polar Scientific Space Station... Just because.

Problem: technology at that time made the undertaking extremely expensive and cumbersome, and (besides technically a success) the Polar Station wasn't useful enough to justify the costs of keeping her flying - prompting the Committee to pause the Program indefinitely until technology would be advanced (and cheaper) enough once the first (and only) Polar Station was decommissioned.

Problem: no matter how advanced the technology became, a Polar Station ended up being too expensive and cumbersome to maintain due the limited usefulness. However, launching unkerballed satellites was out of question for MaKLA, so a new less expensive but equally ludicrous solution was being researched since then.

The recent success of the "new" Dynawing MAX (essentially a reheated Dynawing to avoid kicking start a new project due budget restrictions), what expand a bit the lifting capabilities of the Shuttle, a new ludicrous idea gained traction in MaKLA!