isherwood

Hi All, Thought I'd post a load of pictures I just took from my latest 'mission'. I'm pretty new to the game so a lot of what I did here were firsts. The mission was to launch 3 kerbals to Mun, dock at my Mun-Station, land on Mun near a rover I previously launched, re-dock at Mun-Station to refuel, then return back to Kerbin! Simple right?! First of all, here is the ship ready for launch... After a steady trip and a quick alignment with my Mun-station, here is the slow and careful approach to docking.. Having docked and refueled, I sent the ship down to the Mun's surface - aiming for my Mun rover. Initially I landed around 8km away, but a quick boost toward the rover saw me land under 1km away, then I switched to the rover to meet the two together. Then it was time to leave the rover to continue... roving... and make way back to the station for last refuel before returning home. I felt a little sorry for the lonesome kerbal I had manning the Mun station, so decided to leave another kerbal with him to keep him company before returning the two other kerbals back home! Welcome back.. Sadly, I'm not too good at returning ships to kerbin, and ended up using a hell of a lot of fuel (seemed to just be going so damned fast the whole time!). Luckily when my parachutes deployed, the ships pod simply broke away, leaving the crew intact. Other than the final landing, everything went smoothly. I'm happy to say I had a complete round trip with a few stop offs, and didn't lose any crew, which is always a bonus. Hope you enjoyed this as much as I did !

I will give it a try, but now I'm thinking it may even be too much. I'll probably only be transporting 1 or 2 kerbals. I also may need something with easy handling as I'm pretty new to landing successfully - seem to get close then spiral out of control!! I've managed to land a rover on Mun but hope to land a ship near it as practic, then have it return to mun base and maybe even home

Very nice! will try reproduce that, but not sure how successful I'll be How would you launch it? Just add a few huge orange tanks underneath?

Hi all, Been playing KSP for a while now and got the basics (landing/docking/orbits etc.) covered, but still not so great at building ships efficiently. I have a station orbiting Mun, which has plenty of fuel on board to offload to other ships if required. I want to start building a kind of base on Mun, and be able to transport fuel/kerbals back and for to the station. I've managed to get ships to Mun and back, but haven't been able to build a fuel-efficient (with mono fuel too for docking) ship to travel from the Mun station to the Mun surface and back. I've had one dock, refuel, then land, but seem to always run out of fuel trying to make it back to the Mun station. HAs anyone got either a very simple craft file, or a video tutorial of a ship I could possibly use? The simpler the better, as will make it easier for me to adjust as necessary. Thanks a lot, Ish