How did your first Mun landing go?

[SkyRender]

You whippersnappers! Why back in my day, we didn't have maneuver nodes or patched conics or any of that guff! We had to fly on raw skill! We got to the Mun by pointing at it and firing 'til we were about in its orbital path! Why I tell you, we didn't even have lights back then! If we wanted to land on the dark side of the Mun, we brought nothing but raw courage with us!

And we landed on our engines! If we didn't have enough fuel to get home, we didn't care, 'cause we could just end the flight and then Jeb, Bill and Bob would all come magically back to the space center for the next mission!

[Martonaut]

First mun landing was back in the days, no quick save... had to do it on one take... and well I crashed..

Second time I did land on winglets, and was the best gaming expeience I had in years! , so much joy!, I stand up and clap to myself... but they never made it back, It was untill the third time that they made the round trip.

[Guest]

My first Mun landing went extremely well, if my intent had been to violently disassemble my lander using the Mun as a hammer.

[firebos7]

Landed on the dark side with no lights... Hit at about 12-15 m/s

Legs broke and the pod snapped off, everyone was fine.

I did eventually rescue them and fly them back home... (The first rescue ship may have also needed an automated rescue ship so I could fit the now 4 little buggers into the stowaway pod and bring them home)

[Penguinhero]

You whippersnappers! Why back in my day, we didn't have maneuver nodes or patched conics or any of that guff! We had to fly on raw skill! We got to the Mun by pointing at it and firing 'til we were about in its orbital path! Why I tell you, we didn't even have lights back then! If we wanted to land on the dark side of the Mun, we brought nothing but raw courage with us!

And we landed on our engines! If we didn't have enough fuel to get home, we didn't care, 'cause we could just end the flight and then Jeb, Bill and Bob would all come magically back to the space center for the next mission!

I remember those days my friend, i still have 0.8.2 on my hard drive

[_Aramchek_]

Ran out of fuel and hit the munar surface at 300+ m/s.

[Joshington]

It was pretty much all luck for me. I didn't know what I was doing, so I was guessing the whole way, which worked until I was a few meters from the surface, I saw I was moving a little to the side so I pulled up which just made it worse. I did that a few times until I somehow lost control. I EVA'd my kerbal at the last second and he survived, along with my RCS canisters and 2 landing struts.

[Pds314]

I have done Minmus Landings safely first time, one of them didn't even have landing legs, it just leaned back up using RCS or SAS torque (Don't remember which).

That was the Problem with my first Mun Lander, it was way too tall and fell over and broke.

Second lander worked until one all six (yes 6) LV-Ns broke upon landing it.

I am planning an Apollo-style Lander with a return ship staying in orbit, but I'll need to get a pinch better at timing the launch off of the Mun, and also make sure it doesn't have to wait half a munth due to high inclination.

[Brotoro]

In the demo? I broke the lander into several pieces.

Much was learned.

[ScramblesTD]

My first Mun landing occurred at night on a slope. I had also not completely mastered killing horizontal velocity yet, so the Kerbals got to roll their lander down a hill for almost 15km before coming to a stop under a mun arch. Then a large piece of debris rolled down and destroyed the lander.

On the upside one of the kerbalnauts got out before the crash. Downside is he never made it home.

[The Destroyer]

I crashed, but my pod survived.

Such glorious demo memories. 0.13.3.....................

[FITorion]

yep... just like that.

My second "landing" is a bit more visually interesting.

Edited July 9, 2013 by FITorion

[Tw1]

In the demo, they just went splotch, all over the ground.

In the full version, 0.18, I bounced and lost half the engines, and one landing leg. Melmy was not going home that day.

Later kerbals would visit the site, and stare respectfully at the abandoned lander, and the detached leg, and remember the first epic step into space.

This is the kind of rocket I made to do it.

The bit that actually made it to the Mun is right on top. You can make out the little radial thrusters.

Edited July 9, 2013 by Tw1

[sumghai]

Full mission report is here, but essentially, other than some hairy moments involving fuel shortages and borked trajectories, I managed to get the crew back safely.

[Scorpi15]

I needed to save edit to give myself enough fuel to get my kerbals back safely

Edited July 9, 2013 by Scorpi15

[Kialar]

Lithobreaked. No Survivors.

[Canopus]

I never tried landing on the Mun until i bought the full version of 0.16. I guess i watched enought Youtube videos so my first landing (3 Kerbal pod) was without problems. They returned an became heroes.

[GJames]

First landing in the demo wasn't exactly attempted, there was a slight navigational error and the Mun got in my way...

First proper landing was with 9 parts and a Jeb, but he didn't have enough fuel to get back. He was rescued a few days later.

[karolus10]

Lithobreaked. No Survivors.

My first ever landing on Mun was pretty much it... many kerbonauts was stranded too ,because of ships tipping over on mun surface - there was no landing gear of any kind back then and I didn't discover using tail fins for this purpose for quite a while .

Also hitting the mun without seeing encounters on map view was a challenge (annoying one), but Munrise trick mostly was doing the job.

Edited July 9, 2013 by karolus10

[Wanderer]

Landed and tipped over due to a rise and because I had started moving sideways slightly due to overthrusting a little as I tried to touch down. I had already learned about using a good RCS arrangement though so I was back on the struts in no time. Did the walk about, could just make out an arch on the Horizon (which I landed a Rover at next mission) and went home. I only just had enough fuel to splash down in the Kerbin ocean.

[AfailingHORSE]

My first and, now thinking about it, only mun landing was back in the .13 demo. I crashed the ship, but the pod survived. I've never sent a maned mission back to mun since I bought the game late .18, I've manly used mun as a testing area for sky-cranes since then.

[swiftgates24]

I landed and something broke off but didn't made it back.

[Ferrit]

Unexpectedly a mountain pulled out in front of the lander, scraping everything under the capsule off. The capsule was fine, until the second mountain...

I now make sure horizontal speed is very low before trying to land!

[EndOfTheEarth]

Let's see...that was with the introduction of landing legs in .14, so if I recall correctly, it went something like:

1) Crashed

2) Crashed

3) Crashed

Lander redesign (MUCH lower center of mass)

4) Crashed

5) Landed, but glitched on getting back into orbit.

6) Landed and returned.

7) Landed and returned.

[Skorpychan]

Well, I don't count explosive crashes as 'landings'.

But since others seem to...

#1 crashed, bounced a few times shedding parts, exploded.

#2 crashed headlong into the dark side.

#3 Bounced a few more times than #1.

#4 Landed too fast, legs fell off, tipped over. I count it as a success; wasn't planning on returning the un-kerbed probe anyway.

#5 First kerbed mission. Slammed headlong into the dark side because I misread the altimeter.