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Internal MSC routing slips confirm the Basic Station was assembled with a docking port that did not match the spec KerbalX submitted.

Internal MSC routing slips, leaked to this paper by a patriot at Mission Control, confirm what KFD has been screaming for two months: the so-called "Basic Station" was assembled with a docking port that did not match the spec KerbalX themselves submitted.

They sent Valentina up there to find out. Then they decommissioned the evidence.

FRAME 0119 · R-SLS2 EVA HELMETCAM material reviewed by this paper shows crosshair measurement consistent with a port mismatch on the order of millimeters — not rounding error, not thermal drift, not "within tolerance" if you squint.

KerbalX and MSC public affairs issued harmonized statements calling MSC-002 a "successful EVA demonstration with attached station program review." KFD calls that what it is: a sentence written by lawyers who hope you do not read specifications for a living.

While the front office was busy not explaining the wrong door, KOEING walked into the MunShot Phase 1 boardroom uncontested.

While the front office was busy not explaining the wrong door, KOEING took 2-for-2 with R-SLS2, mandated their own abort tower as the program standard, and walked into the MunShot Phase 1 boardroom uncontested.

Three Mun bids evaporated overnight. Phone logs obtained by KFD show KerbalX scheduling "priority outreach" calls that never connected to the numbers listed on the public bid board.

Coincidence is a religion for people who do not read routing slips. This paper does not attend that church.

Council Resolution №412 supposedly fixed it last spring. Gerald is deeper now — KFD measured 34 cm.

It has a name now. The neighborhood calls it "Gerald." Council Resolution №412 supposedly fixed it last spring. KFD photographers report Gerald is, if anything, deeper. The Council declined to comment.

We measured it: 34 cm. For twelve years the city has "been aware." Awareness does not fill holes. It fills campaign envelopes.

If your street looks like this, send photos. We publish names.

Independent testing commissioned by this paper detected unusual fluoride-adjacent residues within 14 km of KSC.

Independent testing commissioned by this paper detected unusual fluoride-adjacent residues in samples drawn within 14 km of KSC. Now also in the LSI 1 recycled-water tank, per a source we are not naming.

Burt has tonight's full breakdown — including why Katdorf's office keeps sending us PDFs instead of drinking on camera.

Disclaimer: KFD is not your doctor. We are, however, your lab courier.

Why was the Duna probe contract paused the same week three KerbalX engineers quietly retired to off-world property?

Officially, Marsproof is "on hold pending engineering review." Unofficially — according to four KerbalX insiders who agreed to speak only after we agreed to meet in a roadside diner outside KSC — the contract was killed because the probe saw something on the way out.

"They turned the cameras off," one engineer told this paper, hands shaking around a mug of black coffee. "They don't turn the cameras off. The cameras are the whole point."

This paper has obtained an internal routing slip dated three days before the public pause announcement. It carries one stamp, one signature, and one word in the comment field: "contained."

The KerbalX press office, asked five times for comment over a 48-hour window, finally responded with a single line: "We do not discuss internal documents that may or may not exist." Read that again. Slowly.

KeedMartin was under spec review. Then they weren't. Then there were two modules. Then there was a cupola. KFD has questions about the review.

Let us review the timeline as KFD understands it. KeedMartin's docking hub is placed under spec review following the Basic Station port failure. The review is ongoing. The review is ongoing. The review is ongoing. Then: RESTLESS, a KeedMartin habitation module, is awarded a module contract and delivered to LSI 1 via Starship Heavy 4B. It docks. With an adapter. That bridges the very spec gap that was supposedly still under review. The spec review is now an on-orbit adapter and the adapter is docked.

OBSERVE, also KeedMartin, followed. A cupola. An engineer utility station. Spare solar panels. Batteries. EVA kits. Also docked. Also fine. KFD asked MSC public affairs whether the spec review process had formally concluded before RESTLESS was awarded. We received a PDF. We opened it this time. It contained sixteen pages of procurement narrative and one sentence that read: "Interface compliance was verified prior to award." Prior to award. KFD notes that this is different from "prior to the review that was ongoing for months."

Two modules. Same contractor. One review that apparently closed without a press release. Huddin Kerman walked outside to deploy RESTLESS arrays. That part we support unconditionally. The paperwork trail is a different matter. KFD will continue to publish routing slips as obtained.

Opinion · Editor-at-Large Margot P. Kerbly on MSC-002 and the wrong door.

The official line is that MSC-002 was a "successful EVA demonstration with attached station program review." The actual events are these: KerbalX built a station with the wrong port. NASA approved it. Valentina Kerman went outside, in vacuum, alone, on the end of a tether, to verify, by hand, with her hand, that an entire orbital outpost had been built incorrectly.

"A program that calls a wrong door a 'review' is a program with a wrong door."

The press will tell you it ended well. It ended well because Commander Kerman is the best pilot this planet has produced and because R-SLS2 was, on the day, a working spacecraft. It did not end well because of NASA's process. It ended well in spite of it.

God save Kerbin. God save Valentina. And God help the spec engineer at KerbalX who wrote 47.0 instead of 47.5.