Rescue Mission required

[Good_Cat]

I have a lander on the moon for Tourist Contracts and to train skill up some crew but i used way too much fuel during landing or didn't take enough. There's a lot of kerbals in the lander, now short of taking up more landers with large crew capacity any other ideas?

[Grumman]

Does it have a docking port? You could build a wheeled lander with either a docking port or an Advanced Grabbing Unit, then transfer fuel from the second lander to the first.

[magnemoe]

The problem is that the tourists can not leave the ship and go eva, easiest is probably to make an lander with wheels and an claw you can grab you lander with and transfer fuel. You need 400 m/s to get into orbit and 400 to get back to kerbin

[Good_Cat]

No docking port........transfer fuel via claw didn't know that good save magnemoe and Grumman. After a successful science probe into Duna i fail on the moon lol.

[Godot]

I would just bring your lander into orbit and then send a rescue ship in order to rendezvous with it.

Takes much less fuel than rescuing them from the surface of Mun (I guess the dV of 411 should be enough to get your ship back into orbit )

Addendum:

Seems like I am mistaken and around 600 m/s are needed for this

Edited May 6, 2015 by Godot

[magnemoe]

I would just bring your lander into orbit and then send a rescue ship in order to rendezvous with it.

Takes much less fuel than rescuing them from the surface of Mun (I guess the dV of 411 should be enough to get your ship back into orbit )

Yes, this will require an second claw on the transfer stage in orbit but will save weight, good advice is to load the lander in wab and figure out how much fuel you need in the two operations.

I guess that lander has to land on ground too the MK2 crew cabins don't like splashdowns so you probably have to circulate before landing.

[KerbMav]

Get a rescue ship with a claw into low orbit around Mun.

Launch with what fuel you got into as high and flat as you can get.

Time everything for rescue ship to arrive at the right time in its orbit and meet with your tourist liner.

Claw, refuel, release make orbit or claw, push to orbit, refuel.

[Good_Cat]

Landed in the URRE with plenty of deltaV to refuel, not enough deltaV total in the lander from the start but successfully rescued and returned....just. Fuel tank of a Zippo Lighter.