Another funny, unfortunate, flight

[daxm]

I was trying to get to Duna but part of my maneuver ended up being out of antenna range.  (I forgot to deploy it, doh!).  So, instead of letting the craft just drift in space I figured I'd crash it into something.  I had *just* enough delta-v to crash back into Kerbin.  The funny thing is that the vessel was *almost* completely destroyed in the re-entry.  All that survived was MechJeb2.  LOL.

 

Here it is during re-entry:

 

Here it is tumbling on the ground after it landed:

 

Then, to my surprise, it counted as a "safe" return from orbiting the Sun!!!

 

Edited March 5, 2017 by daxm

[Vanamonde]

Woot! Happy ending. 

And welcome to the forum.  

[cubinator]

The World Firsts organization does tend to be a bit confused about the details of our space missions...