Jester238

Awesome, thank you. I think I'll just try it with the stock ship to see if it's even possible to get her to the Mun before modifying it, that way I can give some feedback on the wiki. On a related note, is there a "sweet spot" where I should initiate my gravity turn? Or is it different for each rocket?

Thanks for the advice! I should clarify as well, generally I run out of stage 2 fuel when I'm still making my initial prograde burn to establish orbit. But I'll try installing Mechjeb and see if the calculations pan out.

Hi all, I'm wondering if someone might be able to give me a few pointers. I've just recently gotten back into playing KSP, and I'm having a bit of an issue. I wanted to find list of structured, tutorial esque missions to run in order to re-acquaint myself with KSP (and pull off a mun landing/docking, things I hadn't done before). I found an excellent set of historical missions over on the KSP wiki. I believe "Crush" is the author. I have successfully completed a few of them, and am working on his Luna-9 mission. found here: http://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Tutorial:_Luna_9 The issue is that while I followed the build instructions to the letter, I can never seem to get the rocket into a circular orbit using only the first two stages as is instructed in the tutorial. I've watched the "Flight of the Munitar" to try to get pointers, but I think the difference in the rockets makes that video less useful for getting the Luna 9 up. I've tried numerous combinations of speed, altitude, burn times and gravity turns, but regardless, I seem to run out of fuel in my stage 2 tanks prior to circularization. Any advice? Thanks!