Vasudan

Unfortunately my skills don\'t go so far as to pick my landing site, I\'m coming down where ever... but it\'s not the terrain that seems to be a problem when your drifting sideways, I\'ve landed smooth as, slid a bit and \'clunk\' off comes the command module. I have some screenshots of the lander pefectly touched down and the command module lying in the dust beside it. I\'m using what standard liquid rocket/fuel I have left on most of the descent and after dropping that, I\'m sually 99-100% vertical. I had about 10 odd RCS spaced evenly around 2 RCS fuel tanks, but having found that way too fragile for landing I switched to a lander mod that has it\'s own fuel and is slightly easier to move around. It\'s that last couple of hundred meters when I\'m trying to wipe off the speed that I run into problems. I think I\'ve just got to get better at the finer last minute adjustments and avoid the last second panic fireballs, when down to the command module those small thrusters are just sooooo sensitive. Vas.

So, after a few days of learning to get into space, obtain an orbit and slingshot to the mun, I\'ve been beaten by the actual landing everytime. The problem seems to be the small amount of sideways movement coming down, I simply can\'t maintain a perfect vertical decent. Although I can be almost 100% vertical most of the way down, I always get some sideways movement in the last few hundred meters. The result is the command module ever so slightly detaching from whatever happens to be left. It doesn\'t actually fall off, just breaks a tiny bit and sits slightly to one side, although technically a succesful Mun landing, kerbals alive and well, it\'s no longer connected to the boosters and the\'re never coming back. This is assuming the the RCS tanks don\'t explode leaving the command module all alone, stranded. I\'ve tried a couple of lunar module mods with the same resut. Am I doing something wrong or is it simply that fragile? My attempts at last second corrections to reverse the sideways movement usually result in firery explosions. Would appreciate some tips. Vas.