What is the best duna mission style

[Deimosksp]

Im gonna do my first duna mission this year and i wanna know witch of the 3 is better 1: making a station that propels the craft to duna and drops off a crew capsule and a lander to descend to the surface 2: just launch a lander (apollo style) and slow down at duna mine on  ike and fuel up go back to kerbin 3: build a craft that will land with aerobraking and launch mine on ike fuel up and leave comment 1, 2, or 3 for your opinion no arguments just be chill comment 4 for another way and write about it

[Vanamonde]

Apollo-style is simplist. That's why NASA used it.

[Death Engineering]

Those are all great ideas. When I want to do a quick visit to Duna's surface, I'll do something like this:

• Start with building a Duna lander that can get to Kerbin from Duna's surface
  • Make sure your craft has drogue and main chutes for when you get to Duna
  • Build a little extra ▲V to adjust orbit at Duna and do a chute-assisted powered landing
  • Single-stage or two-stage can work here 
• Design an interplanetary injection module that can take the craft out to Duna
  • Plan on aerobraking at around 16km from interplanetary speeds
  • Engine bells work fine for braking around Duna's wispy-thin aero  
• Build a rocket that can get the whole thing into LKO..
• Science!

[Aerodynamic Kerbal]

DUNA SSTO!

[Gargamel]

Moved to GamePlay Questions.

 

But the real answer to the question is, which one will you enjoy first?    They're all viable options.   Do one.... then do another.... and another...