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Oh I thought it was some kind of random failure managed by KSP to give more suspance to the game. Well it happened only one time, it said "structural failure between <something> and the parachute". The parachute detached itself so the pod crashed. Maybe I opened it too early? In Orbiter you have an addon MFD called Aerobrake MFD which helps you estimate your landing point taking into account the atmosphere properties. I guess the only way to land on a specific spot in KSP is if someone made a similar addon for it. Just guessing will never make you do it right. Having KSP letting you set a landed object as the target will be enough though, but it doesn't work.

First time I've set the ApA too high (~30 is not enough it seems) so I bounced off the atmosphere, but at the second passage I landed; problem is that I activated the parachute too late and I crashed hard into the ocean. Died Second time I did it right but I got a structural failure on the parachute and so I crashed into the desert. LOL. BTW are this fails random or are they calculated somehow? That was very unexpected lol. Third time I did it. Although I'm in the middle of the ocean, they would have a hard time rescuing me lol. Also, what are you supposed to do now? Just end the flight? I noticed the MET keeps increasing. BTW how could I land into a specific position of the surface? I've tried setting some debris on the launchpad as the target, but it kept choosing an orbiting debris instead of the one I wanted. Currently I'm just landing anywhere and it's not so smart.

Thanks. Yes that did it, I didn't have enough fuel to go back to Kerbin, though, but it's just me not finding a good return trajectory. I'll keep trying!

It will just create more lost astronauts. I'm better trying again until I make at least one succesful attempt. Which does mean not stucking your head between fuel tanks.

LOL 74 pages. I'm pretty sure someone already spotted this then, but well I post it anyway: It's an arch. I thought about doing a screenshot a bit too late, but you can see it.

Oh ok it looks like I found the solution myself: I thought I had to lower the Mun orbit with the lander and then go back and dock, instead that rocket is not Apollo-style, I had to use all the fuel from the previous stage. I'll try again now.

Hi there I used to play Orbiter, I guess I'm not the only one here. Trying KSP to have yet more fun. I mostrly enjoy the map view with all the orbit/trajectory planning and viewing, and moving the Kerbal astronauts, making them jump and so on. It's so fun how they crash into the terrain and get up again. Really great game you have here. When the career mode will be done I'm sure this will become even better. This game gave me some serious entertainment, I landed on the moon breaking a gear, then I tried again and a Kerbal astrounaut got his head stuck in the lander lol I laughed so hard and I couldn't get him free so I tried to move the lander engaging thrust but as you may guess I crashed it lol. I'm using this but I don't have enough fuel to go back to Mun's orbit and dock. And I thought I was good at understanding orbital mechanics after having played Orbiter! Well I'll try again but I'm open to suggestions. Happy orbiting! (gotta love this emoticons)