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Hehe I'm waiting for mainsail too, could make much more interesting things I bet.

Wow those two are really nice ones, how much delta do you have on the lander? Can you hop around in mun for different biomes or is it just a single landing and return?

Ah yeah I was meaning to put less engines for my lander last time, but I didn't have fuel lines yet so it didn't make that much sense, could do that now indeed. Yeah I have all engines on at all times when burning, but the liftoff stage wasn't working as 2stage asparagus+boost so I changed it to just liquid+solid boost stage and it got me to orbit with 3800 delta-v left, so I suppose its okay. I have to test that SBR fuel tank trick, sounds awesome

Yeah you were right, I do have LV-909, I'm just absurdly blind... well that got me extra 700m/s.. in atmo, even more in vacuum. This Is what I ended up with, it should work, and is much more neat than my original thing... Lander: 3stage 6engine 7tank asparagus. Turn+Orbit+Travel: 4stage 7engine 7tank asparagus. Liftoff: 2stage 6engine 7tank asparagus. + 6x large solid boosters. It kinda stalls just before the turn phase with just 3engines running from the original liftoff... but I'm hoping it will be fine.

Well I don't have LV-909, so can't use those. Nice info about RCS though, wasn't really ever sure about those.

Hmm yeah that sounds like a good idea, the trip back wasn't that much of a problem in the end though, but everything helps. I only have "Rockomax Mark 55" currently for the lander though so fuel efficiency is pretty horrible vs your 48-7s I did get fuel lines now so I can build asparagus stages too, I did the second stage for getting to orbit on my minmus explorer with that... but I can't get enough TWR it seems after that with asparagus though... and once again I had to resort to an unsightly amount of solid fuel boosters to get up.

Hi! I played the demo way too much and now had to buy the game, I started career mode and gathered up science in kerbal, eventually I visited and returned from mun with a rather ridiculous looking contraption and I was wondering would there be a way to make it... smaller? My lander had "SC-9001 Science Jr" and "Mystery Gooâ„¢ Containment Unit" for science and ~2600m/s of delta-v which I roughly calculated would be enough to land to mun from orbit and get back to kerbin (and it barely was enough since I'm bad). Well, then I figured I need around 1000m/s to traverse from kerbin->mun, and that part was fine... now getting that 4500m/s to get up from kerbin was a... pain in the ass, my rocket ended up being a horrible contraption with the first stage having like... ~18x "Rockomax BACC Solid Fuel Booster" and a ton of LV-T30/45... it was pretty similar to my now planned minmus explorer... but even more hectic as I didn't have bigger fuel tanks and/or fuel lines... So what would be the most minimal/optimal mun explorer like this? -Thank you for answers.