How did your first Mun landing go?

[Penguinhero]

Hello everyone I am Penguinhero AKA The man with a poll addiction! Now I know I said I would post this between 1 and 2 pm but I am Posting this now. Today todays poll is how did your first landing on the mun go? This pole will not show your username so keep that in mind. Please remember to use the poll. If you want to put your answer in the comments, fine but you must use the poll as well. Don't forget to look at the forums tomorrow at anytime for another poll.

CHEERS!

7/8/13

Edited July 9, 2013 by Penguinhero

[Whackjob]

I score my first landing at 42 / 10.

[Xeldrak]

actually....I don't see any poll.....

Anyhow, my first mün landing went suprisingly well, even though I went with the LOR mode. Biggest problem was to get all this stuff into orbit.

My Münar Module went out of fuel after achieving münar orbit again, so it was passive while the CM made all maneuvers, although I had imagined it the other way around.

[Penguinhero]

the poll should be there

[stupid_chris]

>Approaching the Mun

>Tries to open parachutes

>oh.jpg

>Slams head repetitively against keyboard and does nothing to try to salvage the incoming disaster

[Xeldrak]

now I see the poll - I've allready voted. Now just change the "dod" in the title to "did"

[espm400]

Imagine when you wake up in the morning and spread your butter (or jam, to each their own) on your morning toast. Well my ship was the butter, and the Mun was the toast (gravity was the cruel, cruel knife). Somehow, probably due to the shallow angle, my pod survived and came to a rest some kilometers from the crash site...

[Richy teh space man]

My very first landing, I crashed with no survivors.

And the next ones too..

[Whackjob]

Imagine when you wake up in the morning and spread your butter (or jam, to each their own) on your morning toast. Well my ship was the butter, and the Mun was the toast (gravity was the cruel, cruel knife). Somehow, probably due to the shallow angle, my pod survived and came to a rest some kilometers from the crash site...

Lithospheric braking is something everyone tries at least once.

[Penguinhero]

now I see the poll - I've allready voted. Now just change the "dod" in the title to "did"

yea i don't know how I'm not a forum expert

[hugix]

First time I smacked the vehicle into the ground due to not realizing the immense horizontal speed my craft still had.

But luckily there was a F5 button on my keyboard so I redid the landing. Still came in to fast horizontally but the vehicle only tipped over and survived.

third time was the charm.

[acealeam]

I wouldn't say flawlessly. I kept thrusting too much and I'd go up sometimes, but nothing broke and it didnt tip

[Giggleplex777]

I first landed on the Mun before we had landing legs, so my rocket fell over and everything was destroyed except for the command pod.

[Penguinhero]

fixed the name i dont know how but i did

[tiberius_solus]

My first attempt came in too low and fast. I ran out of fuel ~3km above the surface and watched helplessly as the lander slammed into the ground. At least the scenery was pretty

[Whackjob]

This thread needs MOAR MUNAR LANDARS!

Answer the poll, post the picture! DO IT!

[RogueMason]

Well, I count my first landing as 'not-the-one-before-it-that-slammed-into-the-surface'. It didn't return though. I then spent the next few missions perfecting my landing technique, and eventually, I stuck it and got home. This was in 0.13.3, so... Oh my god, it was about a year ago now (I hadn't bought the game yet, but was about to), my first Mun landings.

This was a time before landing legs, too, so it was a pretty interesting ship, and the legacy of those ships continues even today in the form of better, more advanced vessels.

[LongbowEOD]

Way back before persistence, landing legs, or even the venerable LV-909, I managed to graze the lunar surface with a craft relying on the old workaround of winglets mounted to radial decouplers. Jeb managed a pretty good approach, but was unable to perfectly kill his horizontal velocity. Predictably, the first winglet to contact the surface snapped right off, but unpredictably, Bill was able to restrain Jeb long enough for Bob to punch whiskey throttle to abort back to orbit and a successful return to Kerbin.

[Meraco]

My first attempt slammed into the ground at over 100m/s. I waited too long to arrest the decent. and did not have the power to prevent the collision at that point. Miscalculation as I tried to preserve fuel.

My second attempt was successful. Now there is a permanent base, rover, and shuttle runs without incident.

[Basilo1146]

Lithospheric braking is something everyone tries at least once.

This is pretty much me. Also, I love your quotes.

[Sof]

Hit the mun at about 5000m/s

Didn't know a thing about orbits so it was pretty much a direct ascent.

2nd time ended in a crash with only the pod surviving.

3rd time ended in failure as the return trip to Kerbin ended in a Solar orbit.

[M5000]

A bit like this...

[Eric S]

My first Munar landing went amazingly well... right up until I went to launch, and hit the space bar out of reflex. My next two attempts both employed excessive lithobraking, so my first land and return wasn't until the fourth mission to make contact with the moon. We won't discuss the fact that the mission prior to the space bar mishap, a Munar orbit mission, had landing legs on the craft.

[Merinsan]

I honestly no longer remember.

I don't think I actually had the intention of bringing them home - they were starting a colony!

I guess I watched too many you tube videos of people with bases etc on the Mun.

[Kimberly]

My first landing attempt was actually on Minmus...I just got a Mapsat in orbit, and decided it would be easier to lower the transport vehicle to Minmus than return it to Kerbin. All went pretty well, with a nice, slow descent until about 1000 meters from the surface.

Then the RemoteTech satellites I had fixed on the vehicle lost contact, I lost control of the vehicle, and it started plumetting towards the ground, impacting it at a cool 75 m/s.