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First Mun/Minmus landings [Mostly stock rocket]

Nori

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Warning, the spoilers have lots of pictures!

So I've probably played the game 100 hours so far and only yesterday got around to making a successful Mun/Minmus lander. I saw a post by someone on here about their first landing (with a vid) and decided to it was time to try it out. I based the lander portion of this rocket off of something I saw on here, otherwise the rest is my brilliance(?)... :P

First the rocket... It is all stock except for the little yellow RCS tanks the little rocket engines above the SRB. Both of those are from the Truss pack.

Oh and Mechjeb...

If anyone wants to use this and not the mod I could switch those out easily enough and upload the craft file.

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Can you tell I like winglets? :)

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I watched a vid of someone doing their first Mun landing and the responses were to focus more on the Navball, I had previously mostly ignored it (lets be honest the tutorial doesn't explain it well). But this time I figured out what was what and discovered it was essential to landing (probably a duh for the experienced flyers here).

First Mun approach

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Coming in nicely

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Looking good

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Slowing down

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Looks like I still got a ways to go...

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Or not? Well that sucks...

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Ok try again, this time lets have the Mechjeb surface info up (hey at least I tried without first)

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Very close and a good speed me thinks.

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Almost there

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Yeah, kind of bounced...

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Maybe this time?

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Finally! Touchdown!

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Such a purty rocket... And almost a full tank left!

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Lets look around...

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Minmus? Sure!

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Man this will be a breeze compared to the Mun...

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Very close and at a good speed

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Anddd...

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Touchdown (I didn't take a screenshot of the first try where I bounced off a hill... And rolled over)

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Man EVA on Minmus is a blast!

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Well for me at least

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He just kept going...

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:P

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And here is my little Kerman stuck while trying to leave

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Time to go home!

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Didn't trust myself to land, so yeah, thanks Mechjeb. Love the aerobreaking

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And touchdown. Still got a whole tank of fuel and then some

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