What have you landed!!

[GluttonyReaper]

One thing I'm still quite proud of is the Minmus base I built back in 0.23 (0.22? 0.23.5? I don't really remember...). It was one heck of a lot of fun figuring out how to attach all the different modules together, and all the shenanigans that came with it. The whole thing kind of shows the progression of my building with time, with two one-man landers hanging around it, one entirely ion-powered, and the other the remains of a (successful) Tylo lander test, which of course was entirely Spark propelled. So yeah, fun times.  Would have done it all quite a bit differently nowadays (like launching more than one module at a time  ) but it was all a great learning experience.

 

[spacebrick3]

I [attempted] to land my restaurant on Minmus. 

On the launchpad:

However, due to an issue where the bottom structural panels would slightly sink into the ground, it exploded once I switched to it.

Pics of it catching air:

It mostly survived, albeit in a couple of pieces

And finally, what it should have looked like:

[Slam_Jones]

Nothin much, just... AN ENTIRE BASE!!!

 

Nahh just kidding, I built that there on Duna.  What I actually did send was a little smaller (just over 50 tons), but since it included a workshop, it was possible to build cities and such like you see above:

[dangerhamster]

A survey probe on Eve.

As an ad-hoc mission it came equipped with the ideal power plant for landing on eve, a nuke and er..... that's it.

Things started heating up which neatly removed the extra weight. Decouplers who needs em.

The legendary but strangely widely overlooked braking effects of the M700 came into play along with judicious wiggling of the HECS core.

Finally coming to rest with the "boing-o-matic" waveguide protecting the delicate probe core from the impact.

 

 

[Vermil]

...I feel so inadequate...

I did put in a tremendous lot of development work on my effort to do a manned landing on laythe (Alpine style, Tintin method). Here's some of it.

 

The Banshee 8B  (unmanned)

...was not able to return.

 

The Banshee 12 (also unmanned)

Was able to return, despite its damaged landing strut.

 

Then came the Kronos X13 (also unmanned), Unfortunately, I don't have any ready screenshot there,
So this is the Kronos A instead.  Which was manned. It took me months of work to get this thing (manned landing on Laythe) together, so it was a great triumph when Jeb, Bill and Bob finally stood there..

 

Then Kronos B followed it up with a landing on the high Dunes.

 

And currently, Kronos C MkII, which will bring rovers to Laythe, is braking into orbit around Laythe. But that's another story.

Edited April 5, 2016 by Vermil

[max_creative]

Oh yeah, and I've "landed" an aeris 4A on the VAB. Vertically. Then the VAB collapsed.

[samstarman5]

Pretty much the first successful landing I accomplished:

 

Was a long time ago, but I do remember making lots of explosions on the Mun before trying Minmus instead.

[Dfthu]

Landed this at Duna

[Curveball Anders]

18 hours ago, Dfthu said:

Landed this at Duna

The balance is strong with this one ...

[Dfthu]

1 minute ago, Curveball Anders said:

The balance is strong with this one ...

Yea, i know right? So i was testing the new heat shield and the whole time during re entry i was angled 10 degrees off prograde. I forgot the parachutes and air brakes so i had to bring down my orbital module with me for the parachutes. I can't count how many times i fell over, probably my hardest landing.

[Geschosskopf]

Well, I did this.....

In case you can't tell, this is one of @RoverDude's mondo Karibou rovers with a complete 2.5m ISRU setup and full life support.  It's landing on the Sarnian moon Tekto as a glider in a terrifying descent nearly straight down, trying to run out of altitude before running out of airspeed.  All the wings and such were attached on decouplers so were dropped once it was safely on the ground, then it drove the remaining 1km or so to the rest of the base.

 

 

Of course, getting this off the ground in the 1st place was a bit of a challenge.  It required my patented "bass-ackwards SSTO" lifter concept, which lifted not only this thing but its transfer tug complete with full orange tank.

While not a total behemoth in terms of mass, it was big enough and probably the most unusual thing I've ever built.