Should i go back to Kerbin?

[SoldierHair]

So i finally had my first landing on Minmus and i still have plenty of fuel left.When i landed on Mun , all 3 times i runned out of fuel right before i landed so i didn't went back home.What is surprising is that the Minmus rocket was smaller.

And back on topic.My first plan when i started to play the game was to land something on every planet and then let it there.Going back home seems like a challenge and it will be my first ""back home safe from another planet/moon" mission.

Pic of how many resources i have left.

[The Destroyer]

You have a LOT of fuel left, go for home!

BTW: The reason it's easier, is less gravity=less fuel. Plus its only something like 100 M/S of Delta-V extra to get to minmus than mun.

[Spatzimaus]

With that much fuel, you could not only get home easily, you could probably stop off at Mun on your way back and STILL get home. Heck, Minmus' gravity is so low that if Fersen got out of the rocket and used his EVA pack to fly upwards, it could get him home without a ship. (Landing on Kerbin might be a problem, of course, but you could always meet him in orbit with another ship.)

One question: where's your RCS? You've got a monoprop fuel tank, but I don't see any jets. The easy way to get home from someplace like this is to use the rocket to get away from Minmus, then separate to where your final stage is just the capsule, RCS, and parachute, then use RCS to fly home with the H key. But even without that, you've definitely got more than enough capacity to get back to Kerbin easily. The re-entry might be a bit rough, since you don't have any separators to remove the weight of the fuel tank from your parachute, but that'll likely just break the link between the capsule and the things below it once the chute deploys.

[SoldierHair]

Well i had some small tanks on sides that had mounted nuclear engines.When i reached 1500m they runned out of fuel (i didn't used the middle engine untill i got under 10 000m).I didn't thinked too much when i mounted the RCS , they where on THAT tanks.

[Spatzimaus]

they where on THAT tanks.

I figured it was something like that. If you'd had some RCS on the monoprop tank, and a separator below that tank, then it'd be trivial to get back to Kerbin. Heck, if you had that, you could probably get this thing back to Kerbin from DUNA at that point.

But regardless, you should have no problem returning from Minmus with the vessel you have. It's an extremely low-gravity moon, so it takes very little energy to escape. Not quite Gilly levels of low gravity, but still really easy.

[ComradeGoat]

This is making me nostalgic for Minmus. I haven't been there for ages.

[RawChicken]

...My first plan when i started to play the game was to land something on every planet and then let it there.Going back home seems like a challenge and it will be my first ""back home safe from another planet/moon" mission.

Yeah, here is an extra challenge. Go to a planet, leave something there, like a flag (in next release) or a little antena with a probe and scientific instruments(dont forget solar arrays), and then, back to kerbin!

[nats]

Definitely you get more of a sense of achievement if you can get back again.

[SoldierHair]

I decided to go back.

I made a suicide burn when i was at ~ 15km from Kerbin and i runned out of fuel exactly when i landed.Good thing i had a chute too.

And yes , i forgot to fold the landing legs.

[nats]

Surprised me by landing the whole rocket - did you forget the decoupler or was it intentional? Anyway good practice for when you get to keep anything you bring back. I am so lazy I always only get back in my top capsule. This is the great thing about Kerbal though there is no right or wrong way to do something. And now you have given me the idea that I should be trying to return with more than just a capsule.

Edited May 9, 2013 by nats

[SoldierHair]

It was intentional.My rockets are not really made to get back home , but this rocket was really amazing

This made it to Minmus and back:

This almost crashed into Mun:

The "Mission M.U.N." series made me abandon any hope of getting back.I have 5 versions of this model , all are pretty different ; the lander is almost the same though on all variants.But i was a newbie when i made the Mk2 , you can see by yourself how bad some parts are put together.

[Dictator Dan]

I decided to go back.

I made a suicide burn when i was at ~ 15km from Kerbin and i runned out of fuel exactly when i landed.Good thing i had a chute too.

And yes , i forgot to fold the landing legs.

Congrats! Returning Kerbals is always the hardest part, and it looks like youve made a VERY nice landing! Im sure Fersen appreciates your efforts to return him to a livable environment! Also, I like your Minmus lander, ees to do what it is meant to very well.