BobTheYoungFish

Made an attempt at this today with reasonable success. Separating the blades from the main craft works to generate lift but was having the same problems as @K^2 where they would escape their cages when spinning fast enough. Building a cage the entire length of the blade and a few struts made it much more stable, enough to get up to 1km on Kerbin and could've gone higher. The center blades are attached to a structural panel that's trapped as tightly as possible by a cube of panels. The top and bottom wings are attached to the main craft and strutted together. I believe the vertical speed from that clip is from the engines - not the wings. With gimbal and SAS on the engines point slightly downwards trying to correct for the spin, generating enough thrust to take off. https://i.imgur.com/dt2OTwZ.mp4

I climbed the VAB: Worked surprisingly well. I'm going to see if I can get it to the Mun now.

I love this flag. I am totally using this for my missions, if that's alright.

I've done something similar, but over Minmus and with something smaller. I launched it with a docking module for my station. The debris was actually supposed to have a probe core onto it so I could deorbit it, but I forgot to put it on. Instead I had to push it, which worked quite well. I was going to make a larger version to deorbit debris around Kerbin, but with the map-filtering in the next update I don't think I'll bother.

Messing around with the place of the landing gear can help. As SecondGuessing said having the nose up a bit can help. Having the rear gears not too far back seems to help as well.

This thread has a bunch of ideas on getting rovers places

I've got no artistic talent, but this is what I came up with:

When slinging a rover on the side of lander you could use symmetry to put one on either side. It'll balance the weight and you'll have an extra rover.

Yeah I've had him stranded on Duna (after crash landing a spaceplane and sliding at over 50m/s) for over 200 days and he was still smiling like a maniac when I checked on him.

I try to not put debris in orbit, but a lot of the time I overestimate how much fuel I need and put a few debris into orbit. It hasn't become a problem yet, I've only gotten within ~8km

I discovered it from one of kurtjmac's videos. Before that I only had a slight interest in space. Now I have a much larger interest in what is going on outside of our little planet.

And that's all that matter, right?

As far as I know, the only repairable item is the rover wheels. You do this be going in EVA and right clicking on the wheel. I don't think solar panels can be repaired though...

Neat. I'll try it out.