In order to succeed at keeping my new year's resolution of doing all the challenges this year, I had to set myself a rule. Only 1 try.
My biggest mistake was not securing the lander inside the fairing. During re-entry, it must have shifted and got stuck in the fairing and I lost 2 engines during separation which caused it to be severely unbalanced so was not able to slow it down as much as I would have liked. Hit the ground at 112.5 m/s. Pretty much went how I thought it would and he survived! Now if only I had figured out a way to make sure he could get out...
25 pts for a (mostly) successful landing
20 pts for landing on Kerbin
https://imgur.com/a/l85kr