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My first successful Mun lander glitched on return to LMO. Sadly, I lost the picture of it on the surface after a hard drive crash.

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Later, I began sending lander probes about the Kerbol System as practice for larger missions. Then, last winter, my first successful manned Duna landing:

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And about a month ago, my first successful manned Ike landing:

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I don't count these as highly, but here are my probe soft-landings. Sadly, my original landers for Duna, Eve, and Gilly vanished in the hard drive crash.

Ike:

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Dres:

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Bop:

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Laythe (still working on a targeted landing, but it was a soft landing under chutes and slowed by rocket power):

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Alrighty then

First orbit, July 10, 2011.

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A nice low orbital sunrise, July 15, 2011:

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Discovering terrain clipping, July 18, 2011:

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The magic of crumple zones, July 18, 2011:

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Experimenting with negative thrust, July 20, 2011:

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My first SSTO, July 22, 2011:

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And it's first (semi) successful powered landing, same day:

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Lowest orbit I ever flew, July 23, 2011:

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Subsequent beach party:

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First try at a spaceplane, July 23, 2011. It was a time before C7. It was a dark time:

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First time I had all the pieces survive a powered landing... even if they weren't all together, July 23, 2011:

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First time I orbited with solid boosters only, July 26, 2011:

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First drag race entry, July 30, 2011:

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A very painstakingly hand-circularized orbit, done without time compression, August 4-5, 2011:

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First time I deployed multiple chutes (I believe Harvester had told me it wouldn't work?), August 5, 2011:

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Putting the Mun in orbit and returning to tell the tale, August 16, 2011:

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Kerbin as she used to look, August 20, 2011:

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Invisible rockets, August 20, 2011:

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FTL, August 21, 2011:

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One out of three ain't bad, August 21, 2011:

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Or maybe he's just a zombie...:

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Getting all three guys to be happy for no apparent reason, August 27, 2011:

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Biggest explosion I've ever had in space, August 27, 2011:

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Finding out that KSP has a part count limit, August 28, 2011:

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Biggest thing I've ever put into orbit with RT-10s alone, September 5, 2011:

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Complete with a mysterious bug:

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Most RT-10s used in a single stage, September 9, 2011:

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Trying out C7 for the first time, September 10-14, 2011:

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Boating! September 14, 2011:

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Attempting to fly around the world, October 9-12 (still no time compression!):

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(then KSP crashed. :( )

Proving infiniglide exists, October 12-15, 2011:

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First successful atmospheric trip around the world, October 13, 2011:

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... sort of:

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Trying out the non-concrete new water, October 31, 2011:

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First Munar landing, November 5, 2011:

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That solar eclipse image on the Mun reminded me of the time I first saw that and thought it was a bug. Someone on this forum (very angrily, if memory serves) informed me that this was not a bug but rather a feature.

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Anyway, my first Mun landing wasn't that successful.

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Its immediate follow-up, however, was.

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Oh gosh, looking back through some old ones now.

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First successful space station. September 2011

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November 2011, docking before it was cool. (Both craft were launched simultaneously.

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First Munar orbit, from just a few days later.

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