mavric1298

yeah the thud didn't want to be grabbed, even thought I came down on it several times, it just "popped" out and went flying off. I'm thinking of reverting, and sending the same ship back but with legs, hopping over to it, and retracting the legs to drop straight down on it. I think the problem is I came in really soft - the grabber doesn't appear to have anything like the port magnetism, and lightly bumping with it did nothing. Is there a specific velocity needed to engage it?

Any thoughts on how on earth to grab this part?! I tried landing on it, but thats near impossible, I got ridiculously close and slid down the hill at about .5m/s and hit it dead on, and it seemed to almost want to grab it, then the part went shoooooooooting out to the bottom of the slope

I was playing while only partially paying attention, and just launched my first duna mission exactly opposite the launch window (Duna was about -60 to Kerbin in planetary phase, I was all turned around). I JUUUUST the burn to get escape (currently only 200km from Kerbin), and slingshotting around the Mun on the right side. I have quite a bit of dV left, but not sure what my best approach would be to save the mission (one way science lab lander). Should I just put it slightly higher then Duna, circularize, then wait for years?