Help with landing on the Mun?

[ShadowVoid]

I can't seam to land on Mun. every rocket i make just can't make it. any help?

[Red Iron Crown]

Welcome aboard, ShadowVoid!

I took the liberty of moving your thread to the appropriate subforum and giving it a more descriptive title.

How close have you gotten to the Mun? Are you able to get into orbit around it?

Edited July 7, 2015 by Red Iron Crown

[Landwalker]

I know that feel, ShadowVoid. I've got two recommendations that have helped me immensely in pre-planning for all missions:

1) Know how much Delta-V your craft has. Unfortunately, the stock game doesn't provide this information. Fortunately, there are a couple of mods that do provide this critical information. My preference is Kerbal Engineer Redux. Download and install.

2) Know how much Delta-V your craft needs. This chart is what I use for that. I generally take the figures from that chart, figure out the amount of Delta-V I'm going to need in order to get where I'm going, and then increase it by 10% because I'm not an expert pilot by any stretch and assume I'm going to waste some fuel, especially getting into orbit around Kerbin. Don't forget to also account for Delta-V you're going to need to get back to Kerbin! (If, in fact, you're coming back to Kerbin...)

Arming yourself with that information should go a long way towards helping solve your "get where you're going" problems.

Of course, once you get to the Mun, you still need to land on it intact. Getting used to how the craft needs to be oriented for this can be tricky, so I recommend at least your first landing including a Pilot (if you're in career mode, at least a 1-Star Pilot), or a probe core that has the "Hold Prograde/Retrograde" ability. Turning on SAS and Hold Retrograde for the landing helps a ton.

Lastly, Scott Manley has an excellent

series on Youtube. Highly recommended viewing. It helped me get used to KSP again after a very long hiatus, and he does a great job of explaining both concepts and their applications.

[Snark]

Welcome aboard!

Can you be a bit more descriptive? A picture of your rocket, and/or a description of your piloting strategy, would be helpful (as well as a more specific description of what you mean by "can't make it"-- i.e. "can't figure out how to intercept the Mun", or "get to Mun orbit OK, but run out of fuel while landing", or whatever).

Broadly speaking, if you're having trouble accomplishing some goal, it will be one of two things (or perhaps both):

1. an issue with ship design

2. an issue with piloting

...first order of business is to identify which of these is the problem.

[PnDB]

Are you having difficulty landing in general, or just on Mun? If you're having difficulty landing on Mun and you've not landed anywhere else, you might want to practice landing on Minmus. The lower gravity is much more forgiving of errors, giving you more time to understand what types of maneuvers are needed to get on the ground in one piece.

[Neywiny]

keep in mind the chart for deltaV needed, http://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/images/thumb/7/73/KerbinDeltaVMap.png/600px-KerbinDeltaVMap.png, which accounting for user error means you should have over 8k deltaV easy, more skillful players can get there in much less. Honestly I went to the moon on my first go with 3k to get into orbit, 800 to transfer, and a few hundred to land. keeping that in mind, you need a decent amount of deltaV to get there, generally I wait to go the the mun until I get 2.5m parts, or at least the capability to launch such a huge rocket.

PS, this post has been answered to varying degrees by people, so whoever an mark the post as answered, please reconsider it's status.

Edited July 7, 2015 by Neywiny