Huojin

Any advice for landing in a specific area? I always have difficulty doing that, and when you\'re aiming to make a Mun base, it\'s kinda important...

We have our maps of Kerbin, but is there a map of the Mun too? I\'m pretty sure I\'ve seen some somewhere, but I can\'t find them again. One that has any names we\'ve assigned to particular places would be nice too.

I think I still have the parts and ships for it. Holding onto them in case something catastrophic happens...

GoDamitt\'s Apollo pack and the Noyuz pack would be the ideal ones to use for this, though obviously any docking part is missing. Also, the Apollo pack thread seems to have disappeared...

I read that and the exact same question went through my head. WHERE. Did we come to the conclusion that .14 made them doable in a cobbled-together sort of way? There was certainly discussion on it...

This is exactly what I was thinking about during this. Very useful. And I think it\'s helped my comprehension of the orbital plane issue.

First attempt 2:58. Needed more boosters. I also went a little too high. Second attempt 2:32, but exploded on landing for no apparent reason >_> Clearly I need to work on this...

So... flying with the drone... I got a little bit close...

Just when I was thinking about attempting this... '152 LFTs'... Hell no.

Unmanned missions to the Mun? Doesn\'t take that long to get there, really.

The map-view line of my orbit usually overlaps with the path of the Mun around Kerbin. I think I\'m probably just screwing up how I\'m burning to enter a Munar orbit. Nevermind, eh?

I\'m probably screwing something up then, because I always get an orbit around Kerbin that is on the equator when I\'m heading for the Mun, but when I get out there the Mun always catches my in its SOI at a dodgy angle. I\'ve no idea what\'s happening. I\'m also finding difficult to adjust the inclination of my orbit, still. Maybe a little less jargon? It\'s been a long time since I did any physics... or maths...

Yes, yes, nicely done Did you keep the instrumentation turned off the entire time after your PC+2 burn?

Maybe we should scale it all down a bit then... Just a little =P

I don\'t think the SM engine is used during the flight, so we could use Kerpollo Config 1, if that\'s the one where the CSM is facing up but the LEM engine is the one that fires? You could always mess with the staging so they don\'t decouple for a while and so the LEM engine is active instead of the SM engine.

Still no cigar. You\'ve gotta get the right engines doing the right parts of firing, though! And use the LEM engines to do all the engine stuff from 9,000 km until you get back to Kerbin, because the SM engines are dead.

Apollo 13 never landed on the Moon, so that\'s not really an issue here It just needs to get into orbit, make its TMI, get most of the way to the Mun, then adjust course to go on a free return trajectory after everything goes to hell.

I\'ve got an orbit around the Mun. It\'s close enough to being a circular orbit, but I can\'t be bothered to adjust it further. The issue is that, if you look at the picture below, it\'s not an orbit around the equator. I really should know this, but my experimentation has yielded no visible success. How do I adjust this orbit?

Kerpollo Config 2 seems like a pretty good craft to do this with, except for the fact that it\'s really difficult to get it to the Mun...

Looks much better. Maybe throw in a couple of bits where the coastal lights aren\'t continuous and some dense urban centres.

Anyone got a flare mod? I\'d be willing to give this a shot.

It\'s nice, but doesn\'t look quite right. To be honest, first thing I thought was it looked a little like the spray effect from MSPaint. If you compare it with images of earth at night, it has something missing.

It looks like the heat shield is made of slightly-toasted bread.

Just tried out this mod, really like it. Was wondering though, the docking and life support parts are just flavour for now, right?

This guy... He makes great videos...