Jeb, did you bring the jack?

[Lar-E]

Just idly curious... is it possible to right a tipped-over but otherwise undamaged spacecraft on the Mun?

You know, just asking...

[celem]

You can sometimes right them using RCS, which you appear to have, this is easier on a rock like minmus obviously. On very low gravity bodies you can even push em upright by walking into them. If using RCS remember to kill the sas before hand or the pod will use its torque to fight the rcs and try to return it to the horizontal.

The Mun is a bit massy for these tricks unless packing some serious RCS, what you have may not cut it, however you did appear to land on an upwards facing slope which is nice. Use pod torque to roll it around so it's facing as close to up-hill as you can get and it can be possible to take off horizontally like that, a la spaceplane. Again its a tactic designed for lower gravity, but you may be able to get it back off the deck without much more than a snapped leg or two on the underside as you lift clear. Quicksave and Quickload a few times to 'simulate' it

[Kasuha]

Sometimes yes, sometimes no.

Fold the landing gear, that's the first step. Then you can try to straighten it using torque from the command pod. Or you can try to roll it on slope with its top aiming upwards and just lift off. If the ship has more engines, uneven thrust might also help.

Quicksave before you try anything.

By the way this looks like landing gear from an old version. Are you playing demo?

[SRV Ron]

You might be able to use the thrusters to upright it. As I only see one set near the capsule and none on the bottom, lateral thrusting might do the job. I did get lucky on a Minmus probe that did that. The Duna probe I couldn't upright.

[kurja]

By the way this looks like landing gear from an old version. Are you playing demo?

I'm pretty sure there are no flags in the demo version

[DartBoris]

I was in same situation with a large 40 tonn lander , with only way to rotate being build-in pod's gyros. Had to retract landing gear and slowy roll spesscraft (losing some unnessesary radial mounted stuff) towards nearest crater with sharp downhill...and then pointing correct end towards space during freefall and flooring thrust.

[Kasuha]

My best uprighting adventure so far was with this:

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[capi3101]

Ah - a trainer lander. I remember those from my demo days...

Yes, you can upright the craft, but it's tricky; I'd definitely recommend a quicksave first. Turn SAS off, then fold up your gear. Follow celem's advice and use RCS to get it upright. If you've got four RCS blocks on that pod, you should have sufficient thrust available to do it.

Next time you build a Mün lander, use four FL-T100 tanks instead of an FL-T400. Set one center, three outboard, stick your lander legs on the outboard tanks and hook fuel lines going from the outboard tanks to the center. You'll widen and shorten your stack that way, which means you'll be less prone to tipovers like that one. Plus it's the same amount of mass - no change in TWR, no change in available delta-V that way.

[Taki117]

It's gonna take some RCS to pull off, but it looks like you could just use "IJKL" (Depending on which way your lander is facing) and a little bit of SAS to just push your lander upwards.

[PeteTimesSix]

Tooting my own horn seems appropriate in this case.

That being said, that hill looks steep enough that a bit of landing legs folding and unfolding plus pulsing the engine at the right time should get you upright.

[Vanamonde]

Turn SAS off and try toggling the landing gear on and off to get the ship bobbing around, and when it's headed in the right direction, try to flip it the rest of the way with RCS. But that's a long shot, especially on that slope. Good luck, though.