Valentina Kerman was the first kerbal in space. The first to spacewalk. The most famous living kerbal. And now — brace yourselves — there is a second kerbal with a “first” to his name. Huddin Kerman, engineer, MSC-003, was the first kerbal to board LSI 1. He performed the station checkout. He apparently said “systems nominal” and then got to work, which is the least dramatic first in program history and we love him for it.
KerbTab has launched a poll: is Huddin Kerman “the new Valentina?” Current results: 11% yes. 61% “that’s not how firsts work.” 28% “who?” We will update these numbers as they develop — mostly because we refresh the page when we’re nervous.
We also want to know: what is Katdorf Kerman doing up there with those experiments? NASA said the results are confidential. KerbTab can exclusively report that we have absolutely no idea and neither does anyone else, but we are very interested and will be covering this story until someone tells us something, or until lunch, whichever comes second.