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The Saturn V is to heavy to use with the mechjeb TRANS function... to get it to Minmus is a long, hard process! Also, it\'s so heavy, I don\'t think it would accelerate much before crashing into Minmus, even if I got it there.

10997 m/s!

I believe they were retired kamikaze pilots from the Great Kerbal War... ;P

8573 m/s! Flew right through Minmus. We should start mining that minmusium mineral right away!

Final impact speed: 7741 m/s. It seems that I actually went THROUGH minmus. After I crashed, I could see the moon receding behind me. Odd.

Lol, I\'ll attempt those other things after someone else puts a Saturn V on the Mun! ;P

Same ship landed on the moon ??? LOL 8) I\'m amazed it landed, THANK YOU MECHJEB!!! It\'s wobbling slowly, but it\'s stayed upright through a time warp.

KSP is a lifelong learning experience! Same ship as above... mass to Munar orbit = 103.4 tons. (See images)

Mass to orbit = 246.4 tons. Mods used: mechjeb, NovaPunch 1.2 beta. Staging: it drops some solids on the way up. MechJeb compatibility: sometimes the rocket starts spiraling out of control on the way up, so you have to disengage then re-engage the ascent autopilot to get it back under control again. (See attached images and craft file).

No problem! (See attached image). (I changed my design a bit though, from the earlier one.)

I\'ll get back to you in five years!

Sweet merciful crap, I did it! You don\'t want to know how many times I tried. Mods used: ALL OF THEM!

Not really hard if you\'re willing to use mods (NovaPunch 1.2 beta, MechJeb). Approximately 46000 kg of fuel reached orbit with this ship.

182000 m/s! Does it count if everybody died? You can go pretty fast when you crash into the sun...

Yeah, that\'s one of the reasons I 'gave up'... was too hard to do anything when the monitor updates once every three seconds!

Thanks, I\'ll give that a try!

Here\'s a mechjeb-less one for the mechjebally challenged. Note that this is using the NovaPunch 1.2 beta package. Actually I was running some tests, comparing to other engines and fuel tanks... the Thor/Odin parts are similar, just in a smaller package.

How small can you get to the Mun and back? This one is pretty small, but not stock -- it\'s using some Thor and Odin parts. Actually it has me wondering if the Thor/Odin parts are too powerful. This little thing can go to the Mun, return to KSC with a powered landing, then take off again and make a 100km orbit! Hmmmm...

Here\'s a challenge: land a Saturn V on the moon. I don\'t mean, land one part of it... land the whole thing! I tried for a while, but couldn\'t do it... I could almost get a Saturn V in orbit, but engines would overheat and things would stop working and it would always tumble out of control. See attached pic of the 'Saturn V Lifter'.