BlackShadow03

It wouldn't necessarily have to be Mercury that makes up those silver oceans. Being a Venus equivalent, it likely has a rather high base temperature. Those oceans can be formed from any silvery metal with a low melting point, like Lead or Zinc. Or even an alloy thereof (Lead and Zinc together, for example, has an even lower melting point then either metal on its own).

Reminds me of a couple of missions I did at the start of 0.16: After downloading the new Kerbal update, I make a rocket with the single Kerbal capsule and (after a few tries) made it Mun-capable using some new parts. Jeb is at the controls! Surprisingly, Jeb sticks the landing like the boss and makes himself the first Kerbal to set foot on the Mun while it is still attached to his body! Naturally, after some photo-ops, I use the EVA pack to fly around the Mun. On my way back to the lander, I realize to my horror that I have had my finger on the throttle for far to long and Jeb splatted onto a slight drop off nearby the lander and died. He would have wanted to go that way... My next mission involved me designing a Mun-capable rocket with a full, three-man crew. It took far more tries to get it right then the single capsule, but it was finally ready for launch. My new mission: Recover the previous rocket currently landed on the Mun! I had never tried to land close to another rocket on the Mun before, but now was the time to try it. I got far closer than I had though myself possible on a first try, but the stranded rocket was within visual range. However, the area of the Mun that the rocket was stranded on happened to have fallen into night. I gingerly approached the surface and hoped for a good landing spot. As I came down, it became clear that I was about to land at a bad angle....on a suspiciously familiar drop-off. As the lander started to fall over, I realized my RCS was used up trying to keep my hastily designed craft on course early on.....my only hope was to gun the engine and gain enough altitude to reattempt a landing. No luck, the craft had too much momentum to stop the tilt and crashed down the embankment in a glorious fireball. After holding my head in shame, I looked up to see a surprising sight: Three Kerbal thumbnails staring back at me. As the fire and smoke cleared, the only thing left of my lander was the Command Capsule.....not even the parachute on top survived! So what did I do? I hopped one Kerbalnaut out of the capsule, flew him (Gently!) over the embankment and across the short distance to the derelict lander, climbed the ladders to get in, and made a flawless return home. .....Now, in full KSP fashion, I need to rescue the rest of the rescue crew....

Has anyone tried making a copy of the craft file from the VAB folder, place it in the Hangar folder, go to the hanger to make sure the thing is pointed up, and then launching vertically from the end of the runway? Not sure if that works, but it could save you a ton of grief by taking the launch tower out of the equation to begin with....

Clearly it is the Kerbal equivalent of Pluto, entering the Earths SOI so that it may accurately target the scientists that deem it no longer a 'true planet'. Scientists like Neil DeGrasse Kerbal are currently hunkered down in a safe bunker in a nondisclosed location, but Minimus knows it\'s merely a matter of time.... .....And a Dwarf Planet has millennia of time to bide....

I think you have your planes mixed up. That looks alot like the Eurofighter Typhoon. F-22s don\'t have canards, they use traditional rear elevators, and their wings are not triangular deltas but almost diamond shaped when taken altogether. I should know....I can occasionally watch them land at the base I live right next to... I\'ll link some photos:

I guess that means he really -stuck- the landing! ;D *BAH DUM, TISH*

I\'ve landed on the Mun and returned safely a few times now and I don\'t have any mods installed. If you can get something to land on the Mun, then you\'re practically golden. For the return, just have a stack decoupler on top of your lander with your capsule/parachute, a small fuel tank, and the smallest engine. That\'s all that\'s needed. I\'ve returned by going into Mun orbit first and by burning towards Kerbal in a nearly direct approach. Massive fuel payloads and clusters of large engines to get to the Mun......Tiny engine and minimal fuel to make it back! Just remember to aim a fair bit left of Kerbal (well, left as seen from the Map View....your actual direction will depend on where you landed) to guarantee you get captured in the gravity well as the Mun circles counter-clockwise. You don\'t even need to get your Apogee all the way to Kerbal\'s doorstep....just enough to escape the Mun\'s gravity and be caught by Kerbal\'s. Burn Retro (at the new Apogee in your now Kerbal orbit is ideal) to drop the Perigee into the Atmo, decouple the engine/fuel tank, deploy parachute, ???, PROFIT! 8) I\'ll make a screenshot of one of my successful landers with a return module on top next time I get to play. I\'ve heard of people getting back to Kerbal from the Mun on pure RCS alone. That is way out of my league at the moment!

Also right bumper could be RCS forward and left bumper could be aft. Maybe Back could be RCS toggle leaving SAS toggle on Y. Or maybe RCS Toggle could be clicking left stick and SAS Toggle by clicking the right stick...there are options for those two.

I\'ve personally left several crashed ships on the Mun\'s surface, at least one abort because I ran out of fuel, and one toppled over lander. However, earlier this week I managed to get a lander on the Mun and have enough fuel to get the entire lander back. Granted, one of the six legs snapped off (and exploded evidently.....I swear the Orks made those things and I\'m glad they didn\'t get painted red) when I landed and only a quick hand on the controls made it twirl around and prevent a tipover. Made a beautiful shot the second I stopped celebrating. The place where the lander leg is missing is visible in this shot as well. It was one of my older scrapped designs as well. I was primarily just testing some new graphics settings and shot for the Mun for kicks. I didn\'t actually expect it to land since it had no Advanced SAS on the lander, hardly any RCS fuel left, had an inefficient accent stage, and had no proper return capsule. All stock parts, by the way. Keep trying, you might stick a landing when you least expect it!