Bass Ackwards Challenge

[FungusForge]

This was inspired by a rover I sent to the Mun, which was built to land nose down. Due a shortage of fuel on the transfer stage, and over-engineering of the landing stage, the rover had to finish the maneuver by looking retrograde to burn prograde, and looking prograde to burn retrograde to capture at the Mun. 

The challenge is to do a land and return mission to any celestial body of your choosing, but the twist is that the control point must be backwards.

Rules

• Launches and landings must be done with the command pod/probe core facing down.
• At no point can you switch to a control point (pods/probes/docking ports) that faces forward. The point is for burns to be made while looking the wrong way.
• Engines, as well as the rest of the rocket can be placed normally. It's only the pod that needs to be backwards.
• Mods are allowed, with the exception of cheat mods and autopilots. Not sure if autopilots would even know what to do, but what this is still a pilot skill challenge.

 

My submission:

http://imgur.com/a/W5zMR

Edited March 12, 2017 by FungusForge
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[septemberWaves]

This looks like an interesting challenge. What are the rules regarding modded parts/planets? Also, assuming stock parts, would a texture switching mod be okay if it doesn't modify part stats?

[FungusForge]

18 hours ago, eloquentJane said:

This looks like an interesting challenge. What are the rules regarding modded parts/planets? Also, assuming stock parts, would a texture switching mod be okay if it doesn't modify part stats?

 All mods are fine, except cheat mods and autopilots since this is a pilot skill kinda challenge.