What happened when you first landed on the Mun?

[rhj91]

I would like to know what happened when you landed on the Mun for your first time.

When I first landed on the mun I found out I had put my landing legs on backwards so I had to land with them closed (I landed successfully and near one of the arches). Then I sent Bill out to go to the arch. I used his jet-pack to get to the arch and about half-way there he randomly exploded.

[TheCanadianVendingMachine]

Well, first *time* I landed on the Mun, I used Mechjeb. Later, though I did it legit. I was thrilled.

[stnylan]

First time I landed on the Mun ... which was yesterday, so also the only time ... I realised my lander legs were pointing the right way - but didn't clear the engine. The probe actually ended up landing on the engine directly, wobbled, two lander legs touched the surface and then the lander gently rebounded and settled entirely on the engine exhaust, no probe legs touching the ground.

Just about to try a probe landing on Minmus, hoping I got the legs sorted

[AustralianFries]

I stared at my screen for a second. Sat back in my chair, and took a sigh of relief.

[sal_vager]

First time, my lander hit a little too hard and I broke the engine off

[regex]

The first time I landed on the Mun I broke a leg off my lander due to left-over orbital velocity I hadn't corrected.

[Sapphire]

First time I "landed" on the Mun I left a smear of debris five kilometers long.

Never crashed again after that, though.

[7499275]

First time I landed... yeah landed... on the moon without mechjeb, Jeb Kermin was killed from the command pod hitting the surface to hard in a nose dive!

[GJames]

First time I landed I sent Jeb down with the 909 engine and one FLT200 tank. Yes, he did get stuck there.

The second time I landed on the Mun I rescued Jeb...after a 2km face slide across the Munar regolith.

[Echostatic]

The first time I "landed" on the Mun, it happened to be on the dark side without any lights. It made quite a mess... The first successful landing was much smoother, and I got the guy safely back home.

[PaleoGamer]

I'm assuming you mean my first landing that didn't involve lithobraking?

I had @stnylan's problem. Somehow I managed to stay upright, but it was pretty funny looking.

[FlamedSteak]

My first landing, Jeb and Bob got out, walked around a little, smiled a lot, got back in and then came home. It was all very uneventful.

[cesarcurado]

I got all the crew out and posed for the screenshot

[Fel]

Well... uhh.... I landed.

That's what happens when you over estimate what you need, start from a higher orbit than you need, have no particular target in mind, and have plenty of fuel for a controlled decent.

Now the second... third... fourth... and this "fad" I have with trying to use RCS to do everything (I am positive the probe would have landed if the damn mountains would get out of the way! [slowing down on a 4km orbit with RCS, not advised])... THOSE are the interesting ones.

[Akinesis]

S'PLOSIONS!!! Lots of them! The debris is still there as a memorial...

Edit: it was unmanned, btw...

[Fendleton]

First time I landed, it was rather boring. Being 0.14, there was no EVA or lights or anything. So I turned around and went back to Kerbin.

[razark]

That depends on how exactly you want to define "land". I mean, they were still alive after all the pieces stopped moving/exploding.

[bigyihsuan]

The 1st time I "landed," it was in the old 0.13.3 demo, and I crashed into the surface. The last time I got back into the Mun's SOI, I crashed again, with MechJeb on board.

[Cordeos]

Parts flew everywhere and my probe quickly ran out of power on account of its solar panels snapping off in the "landing".

[irichey25]

Eva'd the Kerbin out. Was extremely excited. Looked around. Looked at the map and scrolled out and then I sighed and flied back to Kerbin.

[Trobby888]

My first landing on the Mun was simply a horrible crash

On my first successful, landing, however, it was quite nice. The landing struts did what they were supposed to do and I had ladders which could get my crew easily back into the command module. The crew also had a bit of fun jumping around on the Mun ground and I also left a flag behind.

However, at some point, I had a crew outside the ship while I was in the ship control mode. I accidentally hit the shift key (Throttle) and my ship took off!! It was extremely messy trying to get the ship back down to a position reasonably close to my left behind crew, where the ship kept drifting here and there.

Eventually, I managed to get the ship within 250m of where my crew was left behind. It took forever to get my crew to walk to the ship.

[TheDarkStar]

I landed back in the first version where there was the Mun, so no EVA. I think I ended up not using landing legs (if there were any) and landed on two LV-404s.

[Henri von Braun]

Landed, got out, cheering at my first ever extra-terrestrial landing, having fun making kerbals slide across the surface. * ziiiiiip * Jeb ?

[kahlzun]

lander fell over (on a hill), i panicked, hit the throttle, and the whole thing careened to pieces!

[Alesium]

'OMG!! I MADE IT!! AND I DIDN'T CRASH THIS TIME!'

That was my thought process. I then shrieked and giggled like a schoolgirl for several minutes before I realized Bob Kerman did not have enough fuel to make it back to Kerbin. No rescue mission is currently planned at this time.