What happened when you first landed on the Mun?

[Uberick]

My first moon landing was stressful as all get out. I didn't know that I could autosave, so every action had significant consequences. I got into orbit, and then burned off enough speed to drop my orbit to the planet. That put me into a very shallow descent, with very little vertical speed but a TON of horizontal speed. I wasn't able to burn off all of the horizontal speed, and my lander ended up bouncing off the mun and rolling end over end until it finally ground to a halt. The crew survived, but the vessel was not capable of re-achieving orbit.

[ThePyrateCaptain]

The scientists on Kerbin dedicated a new crater to the brave and intrepid explorers that created it.

Crater Dunn/Herman

[Subcidal]

First time i landed i came screaming in and wondered why my parachute wouldn't open.

It might be worth mentioning I was drunk at the time.

[LeonG17]

Well, the UNOFFICAL first time, so far unknown to the Kerbals as a result of quicksave, was disastrous.

I had to much lateral movement, about 1m/s downwards and about 200 to the east. Yep!

When the legs touched down, the high centre of mass and the 200m/s speed to the east made it to lots of flips! Parts went spinning of it each time it touched down.

Eventually, the command capsule survived and stopped, detached to everything and surrounded by a few pieces of debris.

Subsequently, the quicksave button erased the Kerbals memories of that event.

[billybobsatan]

1st time, Jeb jumped out and died

[Felsmak]

All I remember is that the crew was stranded in an eccentric orbit around Kerbin after leaving the Mun.

[Thorbane]

Came in with about 50 m/s of horizontal velocity and bounced the command pod about 3-5 km. Then launched a rescue mission with mechjeb.

[annallia]

My first mun landing went perfectly. The craft landed, I wandered about for a bit, took back off and headed for home. That is where things went wrong... I forgot the parachute and only had enough fuel to get myself back to kerbin, not land.

Every Mission to the Mun since then has going wrong in one way or another. Missions to Duna, Eve, Moho, Laythe, Eeloo... all go off without a hitch but the Mun? Somehow at least one kerbal dies, and another is stranded there every time.

[AlteranEmpire]

First time I landed WAY back when, my command pod just fell off.

[Itchylol]

The engine fell off and then the ship fell over.

[Vespasianus]

The *first* time I landed on the mun (without MJ) I sat back in my chair, let out a long, deep sigh of relief and then had to walk quickly around my room a few times to calm down. Then, I realised I had'nt brought enough fuel for the return trip. Good times!

Heh. I remember it as if it were yesterday

[EvilotionCR2]

I jumped out of my chair and almost broke my arm.

[Whackjob]

The first lander I put on the Mun sank through the dust covering the regolith. So I launched a second one. That one also sank into the dust over the regolith. So I launched a third one. That one burned, fell over, THEN sank into the dust over the regolith. But the fourth one stayed up!

[RankWinner]

First time I landed was back in the good ol' days before we had, well, landing legs. I think I used fins as legs back then. Needless to say they broke off and everything ended horribly with me only having the capsule and a detached engine/fuel module.

[Rhyunix]

First time i landed, my ship decided to dance

[Comrade Jenkens]

First time... perfect

(apart from forgetting the ladder)

[Mr. Rogue Ace]

I had the demo, after 20 thousand times I managed to get a kerman on the mun, but destroying the lander in the process

I jumped up and down because I have texture issues and that was amazing.

[Kromey]

First time I "landed", there were pretty fireworks announcing my arrival, along with a puff of smoke and a disappearing act to make any magician jealous.

Second, third, and fourth "landings" produced similar results.

The first time I landed, I cheered (literally, I jumped out of my chair, pumped both fists into the air, and let out a "Whoop!" -- fortunately only my cats were in the house to hear me), then promptly got cocky and decided I could hop my lander over to that arch I could just see on the horizon.

And lo did my first landing then become my fifth "landing"...

[Danerdygeek]

I attempted to build Scott Manleys usual craft with the Nerva engine, and as usual, it fell off....

[sickboy]

this, but i was alone.

[RocketPilot573]

Well, I though that 30 m/s was a good landing speed... Why must the U.S. not use the Metric system?!!!!

[PlasmaticInc]

When I first landed, my fins I was using as legs (this was back in 13.3) snapped off, leaving me trapped, but intact, on the moon.

[alacrity]

I bounced.. well more accurately I approached the surface about 10 times trying to find the sweet spot for the throttle then finally touched down, forgot to kill the throttle and I shot back into the sky... at which point I ran out of fuel and commited a controlled flight into terrain...at about 103m/s.

Alacrity

[Superfluous J]

One word: Lithobraking.

Two words: Explosive lithobraking.

But my first landing that the Kerbals walked away from was glorious!

[Skorpychan]

My first successful* landing involved snapping the lander legs off and landing in a small debris field. This was after running out of fuel and exploding, and retro-thrusting into a high speed impact with the dark side.

Then Bob hit the ground too hard while jetpacking and died.