How to get a ground vehicle on my rocket

[Trobby888]

Ok, so I've been playing this game for some days now. I have got a good rocket design (Based on an existing one from Kerbal Spaceport) that got me to the Mun very easily.

However, the Kerbals don't walk very fast on the Mun. It'd be much more exciting to be able to explore the Mun through the use of a fast ground vehicle. I want to put a ground vehicle such as a Jeep on my rocket so that when I get to the Mun, I can deploy it. The jeep should be able to return to the rocket so that I can use it again in Minmus.

Unfortunately, I have no idea how to do this. I'm guessing my ground vehicle can be downloaded from Kerbal Spaceport, however, how can I mount it onto my already existing spacecraft?

[Supernovy]

Moved to How to, hopefully you'll get some better suggestions here.

[Johnno]

Easiest way would be to use docking ports on both the rover and lander, attached in such a way that the rover just drives up to (or under) the lander and gets attached. Or you can build a boxlike structure under/inside/etc the lander, drive the rover in, then deploy landing legs to close the opening (by using a separate action group for example). There are so many different ways that it's all down to creativity.

As for using a downloaded vehicle with your existing spacecraft you can look into subassembly loader. It allows you to load your different saves into the same VAB instance. Otherwise open up your existing spacecraft and build your rover onto it.

[capi3101]

The advantage of using a docking port is that you can take the rover with you when you leave; of course, the rover will need to have a docking port as well for that to work. If that's not a consideration, one of the smaller stack seperators or decouplers will also do the trick and save you some mass in the process.