First dream about KSP brings an interesting idea.

[SuperFastJellyfish]

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Fine work! I was imagining more than just capsules having to land. Thus, the 'whining'.

[Spaceisbeautifulul]

Fine work! I was imagining more than just capsules having to land. Thus, the 'whining'.

Yeah, if I had actually read his whole post about hitchiker tanks and solar panels and stuff, then it would have had to been more complex.

[OrbitusII]

I'm not sure it would work well as you almost always need some retrorockets firing to land on Duna even with parachutes. I think the engines throttle to zero when they are not actively being controlled. So when you separate all of your landers they theoretically would all turn their engines off and would crash, AFAIK. If you do it on Eve, it would work no problem though.

Simple solution:

MOAR PARACHUTES

Complex solution:

MechJeb on all modules, pre-enabled to land safely and automatically. Mechjeb can remotely operate vessels that are not the active one, so long as the vessel (vessels) in question is (are) loaded into the physics system.

Stock solution:

MOAR PARACHUTES, or lithobraking, or landing gear.

Honestly, there's a lot of ways you could do it, but whether those solutions are valid or not is dependent on testing.

Edit: or you could do it like Spaceisbeautiful did on the top of this page.

[Spaceisbeautifulul]

Simple solution:

MOAR PARACHUTES

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Edit: or you could do it like Spaceisbeautiful did on the top of this page.

Me like to break physics.

PS: Its: SpaceisbeautifulUL