where was YOUR first interplanetry land?

[Kyrt Malthorn]

My first interplanetary landing?  2 kerbals on Duna.

Followed quickly by my first interplanetary tipped rocket and my first interplanetary rescue/ replacement lander.

[nosirrbro]

Sent a probe to eve

[Brainlord Mesomorph]

Duna seemed logical. 

[Jetski]

Eve.  Also my second landing, with a rescue ship.  And my third, with another rescue ship.  Then I started reading about Eve online.  Those Kerbals are still there back in my .20 save...

[RA3236]

Properly? Will be Dres.

[Dfthu]

I landed a little probe on Duna a while back.

[James Kerman]

My first interplanetary landing was on Ike (career explore mission) and I managed to land on an ore patch without a survey.  I thought "this is cool, I'll fuel up, hop over to Duna, get the science and come home" .... this was a stock install with no mods so I didn't know how much TWR or DV I needed.  In the end I just made orbit and pushed all the way home with the EVA jetpack.  I think it took 6-8 hours IRL even with a lucky Mun assist.  Now I use Kerbal Engineer Redux and research new destinations.

[KnutG]

Duna - near the sunken Rover (or Roverhead-anomalie)

[Parv Kerman]

well, maxium of you have landed at duna or eve

[Frank_G]

Landed a base on Dunas equator, back in version .20. What a glorious moment that was

[Hodo]

My first was Ike orbiting Duna. 

 

I had a miscalculation that caused me to abort my landing on Duna when I failed to calculate the fact that Duna's atmosphere was MUCH thinner than I planned.  I couldnt slow down to land so I achieved orbit and landed on Ike... to refuel the craft. 

[Eveeloo]

My first interplanetary landing was back on Kerbin! 

Edited April 1, 2016 by KerbalSpace

[spacebrick3]

I landed on Duna with a rover deigned for landing on the Mun in 0.90. I reentered at interplanetary speeds and only the fact that parachutes opened immediately saved me.

[Parv Kerman]

3 minutes ago, KerbalSpace said:

My first interplanetary landing was back on Kerbin. 

Do you know the meaning of 'interplanetary'??

[Curveball Anders]

My first interplanetary flyby, orbit, unmanned and manned landing was at Duna.

And it's still my favourite target of operations, mainly due to my personal fandom of Mars exploration (yes, news from and about Mars is often the first thing I read every morning ).

 

[Superfluous J]

Moho. It seemed to make sense at the time.

[GluttonyReaper]

First interplanetary landing was on Eve back in 18.4. Simplest probe you could imagine, Mk16 parachute and OKTO, with a few static solar panels and light science instruments (no heatshields necessary back then). Took no less than 4 nuke engines and a poodle to get it there.  As I later discovered, it was more than capable of landing on *any* atmospheric body in the solar system, including Jool, actually.

Edited April 1, 2016 by GluttonyReaper

[Eveeloo]

5 hours ago, parv kerman said:

Do you know the meaning of 'interplanetary'??

Yeah on another planet.

[Parv Kerman]

3 minutes ago, KerbalSpace said:

Yeah on another planet.

but you said  kerbin, right??

and that's not any other planet!!

Edited April 1, 2016 by parv kerman

[322997am]

I had crashed a landa on duna but all were fine

[Eveeloo]

16 minutes ago, parv kerman said:

but you said  kerbin, right??

and that's not any other planet!!

well it is, because I was in the middle of space and the kerbals didnt know where they were so they went to this blue and green planet. 

[Parv Kerman]

but from where they launched was kerbin, right??

[berkekrkn]

On Gilly. The landing was very easy because of the gravity of gilly

[Tw1]

I went to Duna. 

It was an epic tale, which I feel inspired to tell you about now.

Spoiler

 

Circa 2013, version 0.18.
Look at that. That's a print screen copied to paint. Much noob,

Dramatic pictures. 

I still love the look of that lander. It had four cart mod rovers, which all died on me before too long, because of the vulnerable position of their mechjeb probe cores.

It was an epic mission. Bill, Danble, and Erbald set out to become the first kerbs to set foot on another planet. They lifted into the sky on a huge, shaky, asparagused pile of orange tanks and mainsails, and transferred and landed using a nuclear powered cruse stage. The photos took while "Inspecting" the debris are still some of my favourite screenshots ever. 

However, someone had told me that returning from Duna was just like returning from the Mun. It was pretty apparent that this wouldn't be the case. So I waited for the next window, and planned an epic rescue mission....

Months into the "Extended mission" the rescue package arrived, bringing with it the Duna Explore-o-pod, and return transfer module. 

The Explore-o-pod, my first long range mobile mini-base, came with four improved mini rovers, and began an epic journey from the equatorial landing site to the northern ice cap.

 

They faced many dangers, and made many discoveries, about the planet, and the power of camaraderie. 

 

 

But the window was approaching. They turned tail, and returned to the lander-soon to be ascent vehicle. Transferred their film and samples, and prepared to return to orbit.
The explore-o-pod would be left on Duna. 

The two stage ascent vehicle performed nominally, despite the many months of exposure to Dunian dust.  The leg tanks were dropped just outside the atmosphere. The main tank and engine were discarded after rendezvous, to make docking easier. 

 

The recovery module had been developed to make use of one jr. docking port, which had been slapped on to the side of the capsule for the heck of it. That part, added as a "maybe this will be useful, idk," ended up being critical for the return of these three astronauts. 

Farewell Duna. 

And they made it home. In one piece. 

I'm pretty sure Jeb's mission to Dres returned first. But they made it home! This concludes this epic tale. 

*Que epic ending music*

 

 

Edited April 1, 2016 by Tw1

[Vermil]

Well, my first landing was unmanned, of course, since I wouldn't dream of sending my Kerbal heroes before we know what the h* we're doing.

And here it is, landing on Duna, providing extremely good information and feedback, amongst other things how limited a parachute is on Duna, due to the thin atmosphere.