No one doing a 44th Anniv Re-enactment? Let's all land on the Mun this weekend!

[The Jedi Master]

Unfortunately, I use unable to get the big three as my crew, but I wasn't too concerned. Anyway, here we go...

On launch. I know, the lander wasn't like that on Apollo 11, blah blah blah.

Several hours later, the lander undocks.

I got a very nice pic during the deorbit.

"KSC, the Beagle has landed."

Planting the flag.

The plaque. I've been throwing around this quote a lot, I think it is very appropriate.

Science!

Time to go home.

Only I don't think they'll be going home, because I can't figure out the docking maneuver. Dang, this mission was supposed to TEACH me docking!

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."--Neil Armstrong

[Mode7]

My Apollo style attempts. Knocked this out pretty quickly, might try to do a more accurate mission tonight.

Edited July 20, 2013 by Mode7
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[rryy]

Here is my attempt:

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[Needles_10]

Happy Apollo 11 Day! I'll just go land an Apollo-style lander on the Mun now...

[The Jedi Master]

This should be stickied!

[Wayfare]

Boom - done.

I flew my Munshine V "Deluxe" because obviously, nothing else would suffice. All the nitty-gritty about mission details can be found in that thread.

Arriving at the Mun. How come this never gets old?

Shortly after undocking the lander from the CSM, Jeb got a real nice look at a Kerbinrise from his window.

Having landed within a few km of the memorial, Jeb and Bill head out to pay their respects.

Who needs precision landings when you have a buggy?

Happy Apollo 11 Day everyone!

[RogueMason]

Excluding the few minor hiccups I had, as this was my first Apollo-style mission and had no testing whatsoever, I daresay that this was a very successful mission throughout. I warn you, there are A LOT OF PICTURES

(I don't know how to embed imgur albums)

Liftoff of the almighty (albeit modified for this mission (it was too wobbly before )) MS Vulcan II heavy rocket, carrying a unique payload, the first of its kind; Apollo (well, my version anyway, but still)!

The Transfer stage is set to crash into the Mun, while the CSM/LM are on course for a low flyby, no free return trajectory sadly

The ascent stage ran out of liquid fuel. Fortunately, there was more than enough RCS to get into orbit and rendezvouz with the CSM.

The LM is de-orbited, and the CSM heads home.

The main hiccup of the mission; during the decoupling, the decoupler came with us instead of sticking to the SM. That's down to me being clever and using part clipping

So, my first Apollo-style mission. This was a very satisfying mission, I must say. Sure, landers are glorious in general (I should know, I've landed everywhere bar Tylo), but there was something about this one that felt good. I may perfect the designs a bit and try another run, but for now, I leave you with this. Again, I'm sorry for the number of pictures, I've tried to cut them down, but I don't won't details to go unnoticed

[Agent30632]

Happy Apollo-Moon-Landing Day! I already got Bill, Jeb, and Bob into orbit around the Mun.

For the first time without Hyperedit

EDIT: Dangit. Cover-up time!

Edited July 20, 2013 by Agent30632

[espenrik]

I did it, Apollo-style.

Picking up the lander

Free return trajectory

Somebody's upside-down

Jeb and Bob honoring a great man and a great achievement

[burnie]

Here's a link to a video of my attempt. Flown with Mechjeb and Aviation lights as the only mods. Features a lap of the Armstrong Memorial by Jeb in a two man rover

https://www.dropbox.com/s/9bga7q7rjg3ofpr/41st%20Anniversary%20Apollo%20KSP.mp4

[skykooler]

I've done Mün flights before, but this was my first attempt to fly strictly based on the Apollo mission: three-stage rocket, command module, two-stage landing module, no radial boosters. Basically, this was my initial flight plan:

• Get into LKO
  
• Transfer to Mün
  
• Land on Mun
  
• Return to command module
  
• Ditch LEM and return home
  
• 
  

What my flight plan ended up being was this:

• Run out of fuel on the way to orbit
  
• Re-dock command module with LEM on suborbital trajectory
  
• Run out of fuel again during transfer to Mün
  
• "Borrow" some fuel from the LEM to complete Münar injection
  
• Run out of fuel again during circularization
  
• Get into an elliptical orbit with RCS
  
• Fly LEM down to surface
  
• Land badly, breaking off RCS tanks and docking port
  
• EVA on Mün!
  
• Take off from Mün.
  
• Run out of fuel. Again.
  
• EVA both Kerbals into orbit
  
• Realize I forgot to plant a flag on the Mün
  
• Realize the CM has no fuel or RCS left
  
• Give up, and send giant asparagus-staged rescue ship to retrieve everyone.
  
• 
  

[Cydonian Monk]

Tranquility Base seems to be a bit of a hot tourist spot. I've landed seven different craft here since .20 was released (there's a flag hidden behind the monument from my first landing). I almost landed on one of the other flags this last time.... Oops.

BTW - I've been posting a few animated gifs of my reenactment over on the Google+ KSP community. There'll be a couple more once I've finished building my webpage, but here are the two most recent (links only, because they're big. MBs big):

Eagle departing from Columbia: 20130720_ksp2354_eagle_in_flight.gif

Eagle landing from inside the can: 20130720_ksp2194_apollo_landing.gif

Edited October 7, 2014 by Cydonian Monk

[IvanTehFennec]

Gonna be shamelessly plugging here.

My Stream

It's over.

Streaming Apollo-11 Type mission.

Edited July 20, 2013 by IvanTehFennec

[maro]

We go to the mun! Not because it is easy, but because it is hard.

[Torham234]

All of these are pretty awesome... good work everyone .

[Guest]

Taking a break from mine. So far, so good. I was really happy to settle into a proper retrograde Munar orbit!

Between worlds...

Let me apologise for the picture spam. This is a hard day for me. My dad died ten years ago. He was a NASA engineer, and brought me up to love the space programme. I saw so many manned launches, and my dad had his hand in every single one of them through Apollo-Soyuz. Later on, he was key in making sure the Shuttle could grab the Hubble telescope, among other seemingly minor yet so important things. So what I'm posting in these pictures is a testament to my father. To what he taught me. To what he showed me. And how I wish he were here to point out every last little thing I've gotten wrong in my designs!

Edited July 21, 2013 by Jack Wolfe

[rodion_herrera]

My (somewhat) Apollo style tribute.

My issues with the lifter is that I tried to do a true 3-stage system, but it kept falling apart So I had to revert back to my old aspa design aided by SRBs...

Launch

Ascent

Maneuver (figure of eight FRT)

TMi

More or less, okay

I used remaining fuel of my 3rd stage for Munar Insertion burn

Jeb EVAing to the one-man can.

About to land...

Precision landing, right next to the memorial.

Jeb goes down the ladder

Still going down the ladder

Jeb reaches the foot of the ladder

Jeb...magnificent desolation...

Jeb in 1/6th G

Jeb about to plant flag

I'll bring them home soon. Right now I need to sleep LOL

[Aragosnat]

Well here is my ode to Apollo 11's Lunar landing which happened today 44 years ago. Kompletely in Kerbal Fashion to I might add.

Needless to say. They had to leave behind the laning part in sooner then epected (ran out of fuel) and had to use the top to land. Sadly the snacks where on the lower half and Bill was impatient. Sadly not enough fuel to make orbit. Bob did try to abandonship. Sadly he was a bit to late as well.

[Goosexi]

This was a while ago but this was my attempt at an Apollo launcher/lander.
I didnt land at the memorial but did achieve the same functionality.

[Captain Sierra]

I have tried a saturn style rocket so far (didn't look like it but the function was pretty accurate) but the TWR just didnt work for me so I will not be replicating that true to life. My lander/CM is pretty accurate. Will have pics soon as I actually get my launcher stages working ;P

Then I can show off my awesome tribute mission.

[The Jedi Master]

They're doing a 44th Anniversary mission on the KSPTV live stream!

[khyron42]

Earlier today I did this - but my attempt to nest the return stage's engine inside the decoupler for the lander stage made the whole thing blow up on takeoff a few minutes later.

[Captain Sierra]

My mission as at a dead end. The Kraken keeps grabbing me and holding me down every time i try to launch. My TWR is over 1 and my engine is fireballed. No liftoff!

[Guest]

Continuing on...

See ya, third stage! You served us well.

Settled in to a nice retrograde orbit.

Allons-y!

Touchdown, 2.5km from the target. Not great, but not bad.

Bill had the honour of landing the craft, so Bob gets to plant the first flag...

Bill gets his turn.

Rendezvous time.

Jeb has a steady hand on the stick.

Vaya con Dios, compadre...

Edited July 21, 2013 by Jack Wolfe

[HeadHunter67]

Kudos to all those of you who landed at the Armstrong Memorial, especially those who did so in realistic Apollo-style craft!

I'm not that experienced yet, only been playing for a couple weeks - so I did the best I could, and freehanded a trip to Minmus and back. Safe landing, safe return home and safe splashdown.