One of the more serious problems facing the Kerbals as they voraciously continue to explore their cosmic neighbourhood, has been that of aesthetics. Happily, one Buckminster Kerman found himself able to kill two birds with one stone: having invested heavily in building simple geometric shapes from discarded construction supplies in an attempt to build gigantic footballs (an enterprise which was largely unsuccessful as the public simply were not interested in anything which did not involve rockets in some shape or form) he seized the opportunity to pitch a novel idea to several leading spaceflight organisations.

This idea can be summarised in the words of Wernher von Kerman: "Why don't we fly one of these to the Mün?"

There was much rejoicing, and so Buckminster Kerman's Grand Designs was born.