Greatest Achievement

[Kosmonaut]

What is your proudest moment in KSP?

Mine, in order, are:

1. Mapping the Mun

2. Landing on the Mun

3. Getting through a mission without killing Bob on an unplanned reentry EVA

As you can tell, I'm not very good. Ples Halp

[Tex]

To date, I think my proudest moments, or the things I'm most proud of doing, are A) Docking, because it opens up many ways of doing missions and creating space stations and whatnot, and B) Efficiently traveling to other planets. I used to use perhaps the most inefficient method ever before I realized you can do your burns inside Kerbin's SOI and save a ton of delta-V.

[Mastikator]

Landing on Duna AND Ike with 3 kerbals, then getting them back safely.

Get this though.

With TAC Lifesupport.

[Sir_Robert]

Currently, sending a sucessfull mission to Duna with life support. And while it hasn't left for home yet, initial calculations show it has only 100 m/s deltaV more than it needs to get home

[Mastikator]

26 minutes ago, Sir_Robert said:

Currently, sending a sucessfull mission to Duna with life support. And while it hasn't left for home yet, initial calculations show it has only 100 m/s deltaV more than it needs to get home

I hope it has 3+ years worth of life support too, mine had 3.5 years life support and it only had 6 days left when it was recovered. They had like 3000 science too.

[Sir_Robert]

1 hour ago, Mastikator said:

I hope it has 3+ years worth of life support too, mine had 3.5 years life support and it only had 6 days left when it was recovered. They had like 3000 science too.

It should have enough yes. I'm using USI Life Support, and that one gives you a timer showing exactly how long you have. Also it doesn't kill the Kerbals, it turns them into tourists when the food runs out. So in the worst case scenario, I can still use the onboard probe body to get them home. Although I won't be able to do any mid flight corrections in that cause, because I'll be to far from the relay satellites

[Vaporo]

Definitely visiting all the moons of Jool in one mission. 'Twas an incredible feat of patience to watch my 1300 part supership crawl skyward at about 1 fps.

[glen.mack]

The landing at the end of this video... 0.4m from centre of launchpad...

 

[Choctofliatrio2.0]

I'd say my greatest achievement is either getting probes in orbit of Duna and Eve, using the worst methods possible. Or when I built my Minmus space station, with a lab and ISRU and everything. It was about to start full mining operation before I screwed it up and the (full) ore tanks and part of my mining lander got flung off into oblivion.

[Sputnik 1]

After Valentina got stuck on Ike I used the remaining fuel to pilot her down to Duna's surface and launched a probe to go pick her up, the mission was successful and Valentina was returned safely to Kerbin. 

[Sir_Robert]

2 hours ago, Sputnik 1 said:

After Valentina got stuck on Ike I used the remaining fuel to pilot her down to Duna's surface and launched a probe to go pick her up, the mission was successful and Valentina was returned safely to Kerbin. 

But wouldn't it be cheaper and easier to have that probe land on and take of from Ike?

[Sputnik 1]

1 hour ago, Sir_Robert said:

But wouldn't it be cheaper and easier to have that probe land on and take of from Ike?

Probably, but knowing how greedy I am for science points I couldn't pass up an opportunity to get a few hundred more from Duna.

[Guest]

I got the stock Space Station Core into orbit on a long not wide rocket without KJR. Once.

[samstarman5]

Landing on the Mun, rendezvous and docking, and successfully landing on Duna with maybe enough fuel to achieve orbit(A new update came soon after and I am one of those who likes to start fresh with the big new updates, so I never put what I had to the test)

[Splitsie]

Landing a mining rover and fuel transport on minmus to allow all my interplanetary ships to refuel in minmus orbit, sadly KSP did not like my achievement and while I was piloting another ship decided that my mining rover should explode...

[AbacusWizard]

Small colony on Laythe including a surface outpost with rover and lab, an orbital station with plenty of fuel, and a spaceplane for traveling between the two. (This was several versions ago; the spaceplane wouldn't work at all with 1.0's aerodynamics, but it was fun while it lasted.)

[Triop]

I've been posting this pictures a lot so excuse me but landing a MiG 15 on the Mun is something I only could do once (no saves, hate that)

Weird to do, landing a plane reversed...

Not a SSTO...

 

Yes, I had enough fuel to get home.

 

Edited February 26, 2016 by Triop

[Guest]

Probably getting to orbit/rendezvousing.

[Aperture Science Employee]

My greatest achievement was getting to Eeloo and back.

[Choctofliatrio2.0]

1 hour ago, Aperture Science said:

Probably getting to orbit/rendezvousing.

 

1 hour ago, Aperture Science Employee said:

My greatest achievement was getting to Eeloo and back.

Are you two related? 

[Guest]

Just now, Choctofliatrio2.0 said:

Are you two related? 

Shhh.

You saw nothing.

[klesh]

Landing a probe at the bottom of the Mohole might be my greatest achievement.  Getting there with it was one thing, but I had no idea if it would work, had enough fuel, would come to rest properly.  Turns out it all worked on the first try.  

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=457290062

[spacebrick3]

Mine is probably docking as well, because it took me several tries to actually carry out and opens up a lot of possibilities.

[InterCity]

The orbital insertion of my first VTV (Vertical Takeoff Vehicle, AKA Buran copy):

It was so damn hard to do properly, it was undersized, imbalanced, impossibly hard to fly (Had to use MechJeb to follow trajectory and manually balance it w/ thrust limiter), but hey - here it was. 

Or maybe one of my later orbiters, designed to have as little footprint as possible. 

Funnily enough, this particular one was flown by Luzor Kerman

[Mikki]

On 25.2.2016 at 2:26 AM, KosmonautwithacapitalK said:

As you can tell, I'm not very good. Ples Halp

@KosmonautwithacapitalK

Hello there, you`re good. Landing on the mun in KSP is a major achievement! 
I`am about to start again from scratch, with some custom difficulty .