Vanamonde

Shouldn't you be trying to match your orbit to the pink path? It's much higher than you are. 
Meanwhile, question moved to the KSP1 sub. 

Shouldn't you be trying to match your orbit to the pink path? It's much higher than you are. 
Meanwhile, question moved to the KSP1 sub. 

Shouldn't you be trying to match your orbit to the pink path? It's much higher than you are. 
Meanwhile, question moved to the KSP1 sub. 

We need more details. What is happening when you expect the marker to move? 

We need more details. What is happening when you expect the marker to move? 

We need more details. What is happening when you expect the marker to move? 

We need more details. What is happening when you expect the marker to move? 

We need more details. What is happening when you expect the marker to move? 

One flight will earn you all the experience levels you pass on the way. 

Several of us have tried this sort of thing and the only measure that's worked is to place additional heatshields toward the rear of the craft to cause stabilizing drag. It simply overwhelms any other methods. I'm not home right now or I would share some pics, but there are a couple of methods. 
For interplanetary transfers one generally arrives with a great deal of speed. Aerobraking is a significant assist and worth the effort it requires. 

That is one I have not seen before. What happens if you land a few kilometers away and then travel to the location? 

No bad about it. Just keeping things tidy.
Welcome to our forum. 

How does this look? 

That is a strut holding a battery (to distance the panels), which I then moved farther out using the move tool. 

 

No need to put bug reports in suggestions. One can assume that you suggest they get fixed.  Thread moved. They are aware of this one, by the way. 

It's this part, wherever it might be on your modded tech tree. 
https://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/SC-9001_Science_Jr.

Occasionally terrain settings can cause things to spawn at the wrong altitude and jump to the right one. I suspect that's what happened in your case. 
Or perhaps they just wanted a better view. 

Counter-act. Balance out.

A flyby must pass through the sphere of influence of the body in question. Looks like you're pretty new to the game, so do you know what that means? In this first picture, the yellow part of my projected path line passes through Mun's sphere of influence (SOI), and is therefore a flyby. 
 
Once the ship actually gets there, the colors of the lines change. In this pic, the ship is inside Mun's SOI. 

As long as you're taking your science readings within that sphere around Mun, you should meet the contract's requirements. 

Those large control surfaces may be imposing excessive forces while steering. I'd suggest using smaller wings and flaps up front. 

Are you at full throttle? How about a screenshot? 

It sounds like you're not doing anything wrong, but instead encountering a common bug in the current version of the game. We hope it will be fixed in the next one. 

Well, the plan is pretty much just fly another ship there and pick him up. Was there a specific aspect of the situation you were having trouble with? 
Also, welcome to the forum, and your thread has been moved to Gameplay Questions. 

That plane has A LOT of control surface area. I would suggest removing about half of them, because I think your problem might be that they're exerting all sorts of stresses on the craft. 
Also, your thread has been moved to Gameplay Questions, and welcome to our forum.

Your builds are saved as text files in YourKSPFolder/saves/YourSaveName/Ships/VAB or SPH. Send them l like sharing any other file.

Here's a guide I made a while back. Good luck.