Danger45

I am also having this problem, and would love to know how to fix it.

THANK YOU!!! Can you believe I've landed on 2 planets without knowing this?!? I was seriously about to stop playing. Thank Kod? for the forum!

Can't figure it out...

This is a definite possibility. Any pointers or rules of thumb? It seems like a waste of fuel to either burn nearly horizontally through atmo or coast to apoapsis while still in atmo, I always seem to end up doing one or the other.

I've been working on my interplanetary rocket, and made a few one way lander trips to scout out Duna and Eve. Here's my stupid question: is it extremely inefficient to take a direct/parabolic route from sun rise or sunset to Kerbin escape (depending on whether you're going to inner or outer planets) and then making your transfer burn from there? I always see people circularizing LKO then making several transfer burns, but when I try it with my rocket, I burn way more fuel that way (the proper way). Pretty new to KSP and rocket science in general, am I just flying wrong? Help!

I've fast-forward killed more Kerbals than I care to admit.

Whats the fastest time to Mun and back? Isn't it fastest to go directly there and back without orbiting? (I.E. wait until it's overhead, reach escape velocity straight up then slow down when you reach Mun )