After several hundred hours, I finally put a Kerbal on the Mun.

[jarmenia]

I've logged 250+ hours in KSP, put many rovers, and probes on the Mun but never a Kerbal. I always had the fear of killing or getting one stuck on the Mun. Well I finally did it, first try and everything was successful. Got a real nice picture too!

See the pic here

[Secuas]

Nice job My first kerbal on the moon was after 37 hours (without mechjeb)

[jarmenia]

Nice job My first kerbal on the moon was after 37 hours (without mechjeb)

I did this without MechJeb as well. Of course, something did go wrong, I forgot to put a ladder on the lander. Luckily the jetpack was strong enough to get Jeb up to the capsule door.

[TimePeriod]

Once you understand the techniques, everything becomes simpler.

It's better to take a risk and get rewarded.

[JimmyAgent007]

I didnt do probes in my early days. I didnt know any mods existed. I thought you got to the Mun by flying right towards it. Eventually I learned how to get there, then had to learn what a powered decent was. Good times. It was before steam so I cant say how long it took. But it sure is a good feeling when you get it done!

[Xavven]

Congrats! But MY first Mun landing was after 36 hours of play, with one hand tied behind my back and dust in my eyes so I could barely even see. PLUS I had just eaten a bag of tortilla chips with the hottest salsa ever, so my mouth was on fire and I couldn't concentrate. So there.

In all seriousness, congrats.

[Travisfv]

Trust me, the hours are worth it. I'll tell you this, I'm at 700+ hours, and have landed on Mun, Minmus, Duna, Laythe. That's kinda it. And in the last 400 hours I've only been to the Mun and Minmus. I like adventure, but I like safety too. haha

[Secuas]

Holy kraken on a bicycle! WHAT SALSA?

[Scarecrow88]

I'm sure you will return to the Mun many times in the future, with even bigger and better landers, but that first one is always special and one that you will always remember.

[megatiger78]

my first landing to be survivable was with a mun lander 1a (not a orbiter 1a with a rocket strapped under it)

I think it went very well.

[klesh]

Congrats on your Mun landing, buddy!

Of course, something did go wrong, I forgot to put a ladder on the lander. Luckily the jetpack was strong enough to get Jeb up to the capsule door.

[jarmenia]

Congrats on your Mun landing, buddy!

http://i.imgur.com/CngKvtC.jpg

LOL Nice!!

[Bigbootie]

Ain't that the truth. Antennae are unintentionally optional too.

[SkyRender]

My first Mun landing was... a long time ago. And quite memorable:

Back in 0.12, there was a primitive eclipse system, which resulted in it looking like my ship had a massive shadow. Weird, but also kinda cool.

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Congratulations!

I greatly prefer the Mun to Minmus (its just more interesting to me), although Minmus is substantially easier. Have you landed on Minmus yet?

[timsfitz]

Landed on the Mun with the old demo. I've logged over 2100 hours since and my addiction is still out of control.

[BlackAdder128]

Learning curves are cool. I've landed dozens of kerbals on the Mun, and still occasionally botch the landing, especially when mission sites aren't on level terrain.

However, with career restrictions getting tighter and tighter, I've been going with lighter and lighter landers. I finally botched a landing on Minmus with a lander so light (funds being way harder to acquire than science) that even after falling over I was able to just retract the legs, spin rightside up and then put the landing legs back out. Now I'm tempted to drop an extra reaction wheel on there and see if I can repeat the trick on the Mun!

[AbacusWizard]

I got to the Mun in the demo version, barefoot in the snow, up the gravity well both ways!

[DerpenWolf]

Can't remember when I first origionally landed on the moon but I think it was within 15-40 hours counting the time in the demo. What I do recall is that my first landing attempt went perfectly! However I didn't quite know how to return effectively and got jeb stuck in the weirdest ever orbit. After many failed rescue attempts (couldn't rendezvous as a noob and had to abort each attempt) I eventually just downloaded mechjeb and had it do the hard work for me. I also recall that I broke kerbins SOI before I ever got into a kerbin orbit in the demo... I still remember how to build that craft.

[Mahnarch]

Congrats!

I remember it took me several [dozens] of landing attempts to finally understand pro and retrograde powered landing.

Now, I tend to watch TV as I'm drifting down.

[Vanamonde]

Congratulations.

Also, moved to Mission Reports.

[Commander Zoom]

Well done!

Possibly not my first landing, but a very early one (November 2011):

And here's the rocket that put it there:

(mostly SundayPunch parts, back before they got folded into NovaPunch, let alone having stock parts that size and even larger)