Your most successful mission

[Draco T stand-up guy]

 

This one, my first fly by Mun. Mostly because it was pure fluke.

This has limited steerage. Even the main liquid fuelled engines are the cheap, but powerful, non-steering version. Once you hit the go button it pretty much goes straight up. Mun just happened to be in the right place for me to achieve the Fly By Mun goal.

I've now done it properly with a nice gravity assist around Mun to return and land on Kerbal. I didn't even have to use that last second of fuel.

[Zoidos]

Just had an incredibly close SSTO mission which I think fits in here:

I started a new save yesterday and just reached enough plane parts in the tech tree to make a first attempt for a spaceplane (first in this save that is). The "kick off space tourism" mission from Tourism+ seemed like the perfect occasion for this because taking the first tourist in kerbal history to orbit in an untested spaceplane prototype piloted by a suicidally reckless mental patient called Jeb is obviously the way to go. 

Anyway, I had serious doubts that this thing will even reach orbit, but eventually it did (that was the time I started making screenshots) - with just a few drops of LF sloshing around in the tank. Next problem was: Do I have enough fuel left to lower my orbit below 70km? I did - and with pure dumb luck and to my utter amazement I even hit the X-key just in time to land just a few km short of the KSC.

The landing itself was rather rough (Yes, the plane had a front landing gear before) BUT the important thing is, everyone survived and with the completed contract the mission was a success!

(Although I seriously doubt that Tito Kerman will be looking for further space adventures any time soon).

Pics or it didn't happen: 

 

Edited March 2, 2016 by Zoidos