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Thanks for the tips guys, my approach was never getting into orbit originally, i\'d wait until i was snagged by the mun gravity and retro in, i guess that\'s why I kept ending up on the dark side all the time (when i didnt explode). It sounds like the normal approach should be to enter orbit first rather then just go for a direct decent post capture. In regards to why i didnt wait for munrise, just couldn\'t bo bothered really, I\'d just do my half circuit and timeshift until I got mun captured. It always seemed to work *shrugs*.

Hi everyone, first post Now that\'s out of the way, here\'s my problem. I\'ve gotten ONE of 7 launches successfully to land on the mun, granted the one sucess was more of an accident then anything else, I ended up tipping over and blowing my command module free of its engines and RCS but since my crew survived, I count it as a win. Anyway, one things I\'ve noticed is doing the orbital transfer I always end up on the darker side of the moon. But I was wondering how people are actually landing their craft within a few kms on the mun surface, is it simply a case of orbiting until you\'re close and do a deorbit burn? Or am i making mistakes with my transfer orbit? I\'m not waiting for munrise, I just hit the AP to 11.4 and wait until the mun captures me, takes a few orbits but *shrugs* I got time.