Greyraven75 has been stitching together an amazing epic in Kerbal Space Program using Space Shuttle mods.
One great example is this recent pictorial story of adding a cupola module to the space station Everest. A great read!
Greyraven75 posted this imgur on reddit at http://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/comments/38tj7m/sts8_scaling_everest/