Hair-raiser EVA Challenge

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The Hair-raiser EVA challenge

Background

A recent mission to send a mapping probe to orbit the Mun has gone badly wrong; due to miscalculation it's orbit is much closer to the Mun's surface than expected! To make things worse, solar panels have failed to deploy and the probe is out of electrical capacity.

Rather than abandon the project or make a new probe, an opportunity has been devised for a single astronaut to repair the existing probe which allows for the KSP to test it's latest orbital rendezvous methods. It will be up to one brave Kerbal to bring their craft to a low Mun orbit, rendezvous with the broken probe and repair it with the Munar landscape whizzing past.

Challenge

To EVA and meet with a satellite orbiting in low Munar orbit. The most hair-raising operation wins! This is the lowest orbit of either vessel around the Mun.

1. Launch a satellite and move it into low Mun orbit. The orbit must be fairly circular. The satellite may not be controlled after it's orbit has been established.
   
2. Launch a single manned capsule to the Mun. Match orbits and perform an EVA to the satellite, then return to your own craft and return to Kerbin.
   
3. The lowest altitude at which the EVA is performed wins.
   

RULES

• NO MECHJEB! Mod parts may be used but no mods that aid in navigation or docking etc.
  
• The probe must not be controlled after the manned mission has been launched. It may not contain RCS, but should have ladders to perform the EVA.
  
• The manned capsule must return to Kerbin.
  

Scoreboard

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Special category: no RCS

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Here's my attempt, 5496 meters, I'm sure you can do better.

[ixolate industries]

5000 is about as low as you can go around the equator of the mun as two of my brave kerbals discovered when the were about to rendezvous with the command module.

Instead they rendezvoused with a mountain.