8 minutes.

[SimonC6R]

That's all it took.

From the landing of my first mun rover to it rolling over and being stuck forever.

I didn't think it had landed at first, the carrier stage impacted the ground hard, but the decoupler blew the rover away safely so that it landed at a reasonable speed. It rolled and bounced for what seemed like an eternity, but it landed on its wheels.

I quickly decided to whizz over to the nearest mountain to get my bearings. I reached the top, found which way the 'day' side was and started heading towards it. Little did I know that due to the lack of any strong gravity on the Mun, 30m/s was too fast to descend such a bumpy hill. It took off, rolled, bounced again. I (mistakenly) raised the wheels so that they wouldn't interfere and so that it would land right way up.

It was not to be. After many, many bounces, it teetered on the brink of salvation, before collapsing on to its roof.

It now lies there as a reminder of what I have accomplished so far, and how far I have yet to explore this wonderful game.

[sal_vager]

Hi SimonC6R and welcome to the KSP community

I'm really glad you are enjoying KSP so much, it is an amazing game and it just gets better with every update, speaking of updates, here's what you can look forwards to

[Capt'n Skunky]

Happy Launching!

Arrr!

Capt'n Skunky

KSP Community Manager