So, first Mun landing thread?

[syfyguy64]

I say go.

The landings in this thread must be your first, not your best, so if you landed in 0.13.3, post it.

If you landed in 18.4 Demo, post that, too.

The first time I landed on the mun was in my wibbly wobbly 1x3x3 fuel tank ship, kinda simple, but really neat looking.

Ascent burn:

Orbital manuevers:

Mun Encounter (I hope):

Star Burst (Is that what those are called?):

Then that project failed, so I used Nova Punch Pack.

It was just a lander under 3 5 meter tanks and soem orbital stages.

[AceofPengwins]

My first Mun landing was in .21, so rather recently. For some reason, I thought an RCS lander would be a good idea... worked though, and he made it back to his friends in orbit and eventually back to Kerbin.

EDIT: Not all my projects at the time were so successful...

Edited September 28, 2013 by AceofPengwins

[razark]

0.15, I think. They're on the surface, and they're still alive:

[SkyRender]

All the way from 0.12, it's my first Mun landing! Yes, I managed to land fully intact. And without enough fuel to return home. Ah, the good old days...

[RocketPilot573]

For my first landing attempt (in .16), I thought that 30 m/s was a good landing speed...

Why can't the U.S. just use the metric system...

[Moar Boosters]

This is the first landing that actually worked. There was no photographic evidence of the previous attempts due to the fact the spacecraft ended up being smeared across about 2km of lunar surface.

It's a lander/return craft all in one, as I'd not learnt how to rendezvous at this point. The poor camerawork was due to me being rather excited.

[LameLefty]

First landing, in version 0.19 so not that long ago.

Oops.

[leax256]

For my first landing attempt (in .16), I thought that 30 m/s was a good landing speed...

Why can't the U.S. just use the metric system...

why can't the rest of the world use the US system? see works both ways. still the metric system is soo much easier.

[Vlk]

For my first landing attempt (in .16), I thought that 30 m/s was a good landing speed...

Why can't the U.S. just use the metric system...

i dont understand it... m/s is metric system. 30 meters in one second is pretty fast.

[Bioman222]

[Guest]

30 feet per second is not, though, and this probably why he thought coming in at 30 was a good idea. 10m/s (30FPS) is survivable in a well-built lander, though I prefer to touch down at 5 to be sure.

I'm not sure if I saved any screens of my first landing, but I think it was in 0.13, with Industrial Flames and Explosions mod. Considering this, you can imagine how I felt when I got to test BobCat's American pack.

[lajoswinkler]

This was my first touchdown and it went reasonably well. 3 Kerbals on the Mün.

The lander broke to pieces so I reverted this mission and tried again, later succeeded without problems, with probably most of the fuel depleted.

It was demo, I don't recall which version.

[Specialist290]

I have fond memories of my own first landing as well (from one of the 0.18 releases):

I did it Apollo-style. Since I had only learned to dock a few days before, getting the two modules back together was really tense, since I wasn't quite good enough to do it with full efficiency.

Still, they made it home safely, so all was well in the end

EDIT: Is it just me, or has anyone else already gotten so used to the new surface with the procedural craters that the old one in these pics seems unusually flat and smooth?

Edited September 28, 2013 by Specialist290

[karolk]

I've just deleted all my previous ksp version folders because they've been hitting 30 GB, only saved some screenshots including my first interplanetary mission(accidental Eve intersect on a Duna mission, so I was like "Why not?")

Now after finding this thread I kinda regret it, a lot of screenshots and saves got lost, only thing I remember is that I've used to raise my apoapsis to the altitude of the mun until, after some full orbits, it would catch me. ( I also remember that on my very first attempt I didn't establish an orbit before landing, I've just headed straight into the mun and landed @ around 300 M/S.