What to do after Minmus

[Jay_Em]

So on Friday I landed on the Mun. Today I landed on Minmus. Does anyone have any ideas of what other adventures I could go on with my Kerbonauts while waiting for .17?

Cheers, Jay_Em

[tsakali]

you can try making machines that are capable of returning home after mun / minmus landings and parachute down to land safely.

Have you done that yet?

[Felsmak]

Crash into the Sun.

[Richy teh space man]

You could practice transferring crew across in orbit

Find all the easter eggs

Go driving in a rover

[EndlessWaves]

Do the same thing with spaceplanes, it's much harder.

[UKDan89]

Set up stations orbiting Kerbin, Mun, Minmus; try to get them as extravagant as possible

Set up bases on Mun and Minmus; try to make it so their space station is visible from the ground

Rendezvous a space shuttle at you space stations

Be patient and wait for the next update which will have many new places to go

The game has so much to do, just use your imagination

[deadshot462]

Create a space shuttle, satellites, space stations.

Orbital Rendez-vous

Rovers

Just a few ideas

[Bluejayek]

Make a debris field so thick that you have a 50% chance of colliding with it when you try to enter a 70x70 90 degree orbit.

[Sigomidis]

Make a debris field so thick that you have a 50% chance of colliding with it when you try to enter a 70x70 90 degree orbit.

OMG (sorry for the caps) this is one hell of a picture! How much debris is there! I like how there is a Kerbal in orbit all alone

[Felsmak]

If debris would one day appear the same way satellites appear from Earth (as star-like things), I'm going to give Kerbin rings.

[Foursh]

Land on both moons in a single trip. It's great practice for interplanetary transfers.

[UKDan89]

Kerbin has a ring system xD

[EndOfTheEarth]

Have you done it with spaceplanes yet? I just recently got a spaceplane to minmus using a Dream Chaser style launcher and flew it back for a gliding landing. I found it significantly harder than getting a regular capsule lander both ways.

[Yeomans]

There is one guy on Youtube, named Scott Manley (szyzyg is his username), and he has been creating Scenarios for himself. One of which is he's been developing a craft capable of interplanetary travel, complete with probes to test a planet's gravity and atmosphere, a landing vehicle, and an orbital vehicle. It's really quite awesome. I would recommend, that you prepare for the awesome new planets arriving in .17 by developing your own interplanetary vessels. You can even test them in .16 by putting them in an orbit around the Sun and bringing them back to Kerbin. It's actually quite a difficult task, because you need to make a vehicle capable to flying to another planet and back, and you probably want to land some brave Kermen on it's surface too.

Or, you could do what I'm doing: I'm currently running a mission where I have one Kerman stuck in an orbit around the Mun (unfortunately, it's Jeb ) and you could try to fly a rocket to the moon (making room for one extra passenger) and rescue them.

...or you could blow a bunch of stuff up.

[JackAz]

Lol Most of my missions are rescue missions . Anyway at the moment i am trying to make a sort of Mun and minimus research base by landing my rokcets near each other, also by sending on these 2 moons rover prototypes. I also try out many randezvous on different orbits to replace the astronauts, so they can go back home ( i have 1-2 ships orbiting kerbin mun and minimus). I hope i've helped you.

[Pleborian]

orbital rendezvous practice, you can never have too much

[baked_by_oven]

Mun base, Minmus base, Space station, Shuttle/rocket for crew transfer with space station, Polar satellite network, Keosynchronous satellite network...

And of course: All of the above using only SRB and nothing from the command and control tab.

[Jay_Em]

Wow, thanks guys, this is really useful. I think I'll try some orbital rendezvous first.

[Tim_Barrett]

Planes are fun.

[Companion]

Try making a rocket with stock parts using landing wheels to drive and RSC to move yourself. Land in on the Mun or Minmus and have a great time

[spikeyhat09]

land on minmus and the moon in one mission

perform an orbital rendezvous

launch a vessel into interplanetary space, and then safely return to kerbin.

take a spaceplane to KSC2

take a vessel to the mun/min using only solid rocket boosters (and crash of course )

create a shuttle or reverse shuttle (launches like a rocket, lands like a plane, or launches like a plane, and turns into a rocket)

land a kerbonaut on minmus using only the rcs backpack (once in orbit with the main vessel)

perform a kerboldive

take a vessel out of kerbols SOI

perform various missions using unmanned vessels (by carefully designing it so that you launch it, decouple it, and quickly switch to it using [ ] so that your following the "debris")

install a mod or better yet, make one

walk to the north pole on foot

rescue the crew of a failed mun/min landing attempt

see how large a vessel you can make before the game crashes

have a kerbal climb up the latter of the water tower at KSC to observe your launches

attempt to land a vessel on various buildings at KSC

try to scare Jebediah (keyword = try)

fly a vessel into the munar arch(es?)

attempt to land on the hilly parts of the min/mun at night.

[nhnifong]

Make a debris field so thick that you have a 50% chance of colliding with it when you try to enter a 70x70 90 degree orbit.

Whoa, How did you do that?

Can I download the persistence file?

[spikeyhat09]

Whoa, How did you do that?

Can I download the persistence file?

I'd like to aswell!

[AmpsterMan]

I don't think there has ever been a game that gives you so little yet lets you do so much. My vote is for trying to find all the easter eggs in each of the stellar bodies in the game. I have found only one so far so I am at that stage right now XD

[Markus Reese]

My final challenge I did and yet to find something I want to do that can top it was originally a challenge issued on the forums here. What I did set up a space plane, land on both Mun and Minmus. Each time I captured orbit and grabbed a specific landing site. Following this, I returned to kerbin on a polar orbit and snapped some nice pictures of the poles. Finished off with bombing and capturing KSC 2. Was quite the adventure and loads of fun in getting a unique and stylish ship that can do all of that. I recommend trying.