The Story of my First Mun Landing

[NuclearWarfare]

The most nervous thing for me is when I have a challenge. I've played KSP for around 3 months, and I never made it to the Mun. About a week ago, I finally had a craft capable of getting to the Mun. I fully understand how to get to planets now, and I haven't ever landed properly in the scenarios, so it was a huge accomplishment when I was able to fix the problem of my lander toppling over, though nothing was damaged. All the Youtube vids came to my head, and I did the Landing gear trick and flipped my craft into the air, being able to reland, perfectly. Bill stepped off the One-man capsule and had a great time using up all his Jetpack fuel looking for stuff, though nothing interesting was found in the huge crater. I don't have enough fuel to get back, so I think my next mission will be a rescue by Bob and Jeb. (Though coincidence, its very awesome how I landed at 9:29 on 9/29/12.

[Lesarthois]

Nice idea to use two ladders.

This lander design should have enough fuel to bring you home; but you have to use the previous stage to slow down and get as low as possible before.

[Giggleplex777]

Nice landing! My first Mun landing was with Bill too, he ejected and surived while the lander exploded.

[NuclearWarfare]

Nice idea to use two ladders.

This lander design should have enough fuel to bring you home; but you have to use the previous stage to slow down and get as low as possible before.

The rocket used called Munabu (Moon-a-boo) is about 27 parts. I don't have enough skill to make a rocket that gets an orbit around Kerbin before it goes to the Mun, so the previous stage only gets the lander half way, and the lander uses an eighth of its fuel to get into the Mun's gravitational pull

[Ascensiam]

Nice work, you're going to get further in the future if you just keep it up.

[Lesarthois]

Well, now you have to work on your rocket You know your lander works. And I used the same design to land, take off Minmus and get back to Kerbin. So make a better Munabu and you'll be good

[NuclearWarfare]

I don't think it will need much tuning. Once I practice some more I won't use up so much fuel on landing

[Lesarthois]

Yep, that too.

When I first made my rocket, I barely made it to the Mun and left Jebediah stranded. Now, with the same design, I was able to get orbiting around Duna.

Practice is important indeed.

[NuclearWarfare]

I think its great that my first landing was spot on with nothing broken off. I'm seeing a lot of people needing to EVA out of the ship because they ran out of fuel or couldn't stop it quick enough.

[mustwinfull]

I think its great that my first landing was spot on with nothing broken off. I'm seeing a lot of people needing to EVA out of the ship because they ran out of fuel or couldn't stop it quick enough.

I had to EVA before it crashed, but it was because of a different reason, I forgot to kill my horizontal velocity, so I kept Munhopping around until I got annoyed and decided to crash it, getting Bob out just before. Jebediah officially rescued him.

Congratulations on your Mun landing though.

[MoreEpicThanYou]

Nice landing! My first Mun landing was with Bill too, he ejected and surived while the lander exploded.

I did the same thing, but with Jeb. I then organized a rescue mission, which also failed because Jeb died in a jetpack accident.

I've probably landed about 10 kerbals on the Mun, but not one of them made it back.