How long until you learned to orbit?

[Spaceisbeautifulul]

Just a simple question, how long until you learned to get into orbit?

For me it took a month, after that it took me another month to get to the Mun.

This will be interesting.

[Wait- Was That Important?]

I was fine with making rockets that could get to orbit, I just didn't understand orbital physics when I first played.

I actually burned towards the planet in an attempt to deorbit myself

After that it was about 3 days before making orbit became possible for me.

[ZedNova]

A few hours. But that's because i watched a ton of Tutorials/Let's plays before i bought it. If i hadn't it would probably have been more like a week.

[UmbralRaptor]

Something like the third or so launch? Of course, I already knew the importance of going sideways, so it was more a matter of building up to an orbital rocket...

[rodion_herrera]

I orbited the first rocket I launched (stock, one of those that came with the game). It probably helped that I have been using Orbiter since 2001 It surprised me that the ascent profile I "guesstimated" (basing on how I launched and hand-flew an Atlas Booster in Orbiter, from memory) actually worked.

[Peenvogel]

I watched some Youtube tutorials. After that, it took me about 2 days or so to reach orbit without help from mods. To be consistent however (know to reach orbit for sure) took 1 to 2 weeks I guess.

Of course it all depends on your initial rocket design.

[Spaceisbeautifulul]

Man, you people are good, only a couple days until your reached orbit? Crazy!

For me at least

[RocketPilot573]

Like an hour, I just did what I saw people in YouTube videos do.

[nettcod]

3 days I think.

[Tada]

hour or so

18 hours for Mün and back mission

[maackey]

Yeah, tutorials eliminate 95% of the time and frustration

Learn from others' mistakes!

[Rage097]

Well, I flood my brain with nothing but a game before I get it so...

45 minutes.

I feel cheaty.

[Brenok]

I believe it took a few hours. Used some extremely over-powered rockets to just get in orbit, but did it. Mun landing came about three days after. The hardest part was the landing itself, I think I crashed it four times before succeding.

[Procyon]

Couple hours, then watched a couple vids to learn how to do it right

[Pursuedtank]

It only took me a few hours to get into orbit, after I realised that the line was where I would be going and if I burned sideways I could extend the line. It then took me about a month and a half to land on the Mun.

[dharak1]

Minutes, no tutorials. But lets just say that burning straight up until you get a periapsis isn't the best plan. it took 4 months to get to the mun. I bought in .17 and i got to the mun in .18 after waiting a few months to play again.

[CptNuts]

Scince I played Orbiter for a long time I knew orbital mechanics and how to orbit, tricky part was to learn how to construct a working rocket in the .13 demo that could reach orbital velocity, took me about 12 hours i guess before i was able to reach stable orbit, and one youtube video about when to burn for mün and fifteen minutes of testing to reach mün for the first time^^ (thanks to Scott Manley, his videos helped me ever since i started playing ksp, this man is a genius)

[RatBeer]

i self taught myself. even if it did mean burning straight up, cutting the engines, and burning horizontal. It probably took me an hour or so but this was back when .13 came out

[rodion_herrera]

Managed to get to Mun about 2 hours after my first orbit (free-return trajectory). Minmus the next day.

[Brofessional]

Probably a few weeks, but that was back in like 0.9 or something, before there was a map view.

[DisarmingBaton5]

About an hour. Watched kurt's lp, but it wasn't TOO much help. (I started in 0.17)

[tntristan12]

took me the better part of a day, but I was playing during a time where there was no map menu, no rotation to help you out, and the only way to tell what your orbital velocity needed to be was by looking up the values on the wiki. Those were good times!

[_Aramchek_]

About 5 tries iirc, I already knew the basic idea, it was just a matter of building a rocket that didn't run out of fuel before I accomplished it.

[Kilmeister]

First orbit was late on the night i first got it... so a few hours.... I was doing rather terrible turn though. I just went straight up to about 100km then turned sideways. So I made it to orbit with an actually not that innificient rocket design, but with little fuel to spare at the end. I made a landing on the mun after about a week. had made 3 attempts before but all of them ended up as a fireball on the mun's surface.

[RoboRay]

Second launch. I likely could have done it on the first, but wanted to start with a suborbital flight, Mercury-Redstone style.

I was already familiar with the general principles of orbital mechanics and rocketry before KSP, however.