Landing on the moon (how?)

[dylan1234]

her\'s a craft which will get you to the mun

[Khrissetti]

at about 5,000m slow down to about 20m/s, keep an eye out for your shadow or if you\'re on the dark side, look for when your exhaust starts to go through the surface of the planet, after that get your speed lower than 10 m/s, the closest to 0 the safer you\'ll be. The fastest I\'ve ever safely landed was 13m/s

The best thing is that when you\'re lower than 5m/s you\'ll be able to clearly see which way your lateral movement is going. you want your retrograde symbol (the green/yellow circle with the \'x\' in it) pointing to the very top of the blue part of the nav-ball. if the symbol is a little to the left or right use the \'j\' and \'l\' keys to fire RCS to bring it back in line. If the symbol is too far up or down, use \'i\' and \'k\'

I practiced on Kerbin, bouncing around KSC until I got the hang of it enough to land on the Mun as this was in v0.13 before the advent of save files.

[Nomer]

Yup, the retro-grade worked like a charm,

I had very little lateral movement,

But I\'m wondering how to get into orbit once encounterd?

I usually get a fly-by encounter and then get shot out,

but at kerbin i just push a bit more so I can get a course-collision encounter.

All I need is some practice and I can get a perfect landing,

I\'m trying the columbus moonlander once or something.

I\'ve landed before with the thunder-bird but I don\'t count it because it\'s not a real rocket

1200 mps inside earth atmosphere, 50000000000 fuel tanks, %0.01 consumption rate engines.

[Knyght]

To stabilise an orbit with the Mun, aim for a flyby trajectory. When you get to the periapsis, make a retrograde burn.

This will slow your craft down and allow you to be captured more by the Mun\'s gravitational force, circularising your orbit.

[Nomer]

Ok, I burned at retrograde, got a great circular orbit, circled for a minute to think of my descent tradjectory,

When I was going to release the 2nd stage to release the lander,

it got stuck, it wouldn\'t break open

i got really pissed...

[Nomer]

Touchdown at 11 meters per second,

crashed again...

[Nomer]

I\'m out a fuel at my perapsis is 36k meters tall, I\'m trying to use my RSC tanks, if not, I\'m sending out a rescue mission D:

[Nomer]

Dang, I\'m out of fuel and here is my return tradjectory:

[Nomer]

Yes!

I aimed at the retro-grade,

and fired my RSC tanks!

and my orbit went down!

[Nomer]

Ok, Got in correct entry angle,

Here is me opening the parachute

[Nomer]

NO

FUCK NO

WHAT THE HELL

I WILL FUCKING SUE HIDRA PARACHUTES FOR THIS!!!!!

I SIGNED NO DAMN FORUM

[Vanamonde]

This thread is quite the emotional rollercoaster ride.

[Nomer]

You\'re right, but this opened a whole new window for moon bases, orbital probes, rendezvousing on the surface.

[Khrissetti]

Dang, I\'m out of fuel and here is my return tradjectory:

If it was at 36k you\'d have got back fine. Get within the atmosphere and you\'ll aerobrake down.

[Matticus88]

i\'ve found that when your parachute gets deployed, if your speed is too high and the mass its holding is too much then the \'chute will just break off, leaving the object its ment to slow down to plummet

[Nomer]

Landed on the moon.

0% extra fuel.

Didn\'t use mechjeb.

Got home safetly.

[pebble_garden]

Nomer, your posts made me laugh. Thanks for documenting your mission attempts. And congratulations!