WATCH OUT DOWN THERE! - Awesome landings showcase

[InterCity]

Hello, fellow kerbonauts.

Please post here pics and comments of your interesting landings: it can be either success, or failure.

The only restriction is that they must look amazing.

I am sorry, my own landers are rather dull and successful, all made with maths and science.

Here are the Mun and Jool landers (altough the Jool one got crushed upon touchdown, so it's only orbital picture)

P.S. Sorry for MechJeb, i'm useless pilot :/

Edited February 14, 2014 by InterCity

[Deadpangod3]

In before whackjob

[sal_vager]

JebKerboom, rather than post an empty thread, how about you update your first post with your awesome landing?

[FITorion]

These span several versions.

My first Mun landing in .18

My second... delivering rovers before rover parts were in the game...

loaded the quick save and tried again

And... self explanatory

[SkyRender]

You can't see much in this shot, and neither could I while I was taking it. Yes, I set out to land this thing on the dark side of the Mun. With no lights. Or RCS. Or SAS (this was before SAS was auto-integrated on everything).

It was also obscenely heavy, meaning I had to touch down extra-light to keep from breaking anything. Which I did. Because I am the best at space.

[TimePeriod]

It was pretty cold...

[Cupcake...]

A little look back at my reckless youth...

Skip to 1:40 for the landing...

I should try this challenge again one day.

Enjoy!

Cupcake...

[Whackjob]

In before whackjob

New Munar lander, not yet a success:

But success is inevitable:

#EDIT: First picture is old and only reports 8 mainsails. There are 40 in the version you see taking off. Looking for correct initial picture....

Edited February 13, 2014 by Whackjob

[teal'c]

My succesful skycrane on the mun:

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[Skorpychan]

So far, there's been my first Mun landing; way too hard and fast, leaving only the capsule and a few bits and pieces.

My recent 'landing' on Gilly takes the cake, however. I was trying to get 'near' science from it, but wasn't able to get it while still clearing mountains. So I braked, and braked, and thought 'screw it'. And tried for a landing.

Since this was in an early version of my cruise stage/space tug design, the 'landing' was the engine bell of the nuclear engine touching down with about half a m/s of velocity. And then promptly snapping off, leaving the fuel tank and the rest of the craft to settle slowly down. Twitching it at all on reaction wheels leads to it springing up off the ground. It's ridiculously low gravity.

[Moar Boosters]

Here's a few of mine.

[Zaryulenko]

Second mission to Duna, this time i was able to let everyone go to the surface !

[Whackjob]

A pair of my most recent successes:

For comparison purposes, the Arkingthaad Nadir Lite is three times taller than this one.

[Mr.Rocket]

Some of my best (and worst) landings:

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[Mitchz95]

I actually didn't mean to land it like that, but it's pretty badass looking. I even managed to get the ship back to Kerbin (well, most of it).

[DisarmingBaton5]

http://i.imgur.com/1lXen9j.png

This... This is beautiful.

[Sticklyman]

I decided to fly a bunch of Kerbals to the Mun one day. Try as I might, I could not get those little so-and-sos to sit still for a picture... classic Kerbal

[Stilgar2300]

Just barely worked. No testing before landing this rescue vehical. Had to burn RCS at the same to slow myself down .1 m/s every second.

[Klingon Admiral]

My first SSTO-mission went absolutely lovely, she climbed into orbit without any problems, orbitted one or two times and even landed down on the runway. Then ...

Funnily enough, I called it beforehand.

[Voculus]

Coming in hot! And no brakes!

Edited February 14, 2014 by Voculus

[Mr.Rocket]

picture

Sooooo close

[maccollo]

Low TWR landing on the moon. Came in to fast and I would have crashed were it not for a conveniently placed crater XD

Also, less than 1 unit of fuel left after landing O_O

Edited February 14, 2014 by maccollo

[InterCity]

JebKerboom, rather than post an empty thread, how about you update your first post with your awesome landing?

Updating...

[Overfloater]

Low TWR landing on the moon. Came in to fast and I would have crashed were it not for a conveniently placed crater XD

Also, less than 1 unit of fuel left after landing O_O

[cool gif animation]

Wow NICE...xD

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I think this is an awesome landing:

BUT...

THIS is when I thought I've won KSP:

No parachutes & no retro-engines

Also, this plane came there from Laythe and then returned to Kerbin.

Edited February 14, 2014 by Overfloater

[Clouds]

I flew a one-way mission to Jool with 4 independent landers. I landed on Pol, Bop, Tylo, and Vall, I think. (Or was it 3 landers?)

It was my first ever attempt to land on Tylo and I had totally forgotten that it was massive. Fortunately, I had sufficiently overbuilt these landers and it was up to the task, but I wasn't mentally prepared.

Lost 2 of 3 legs in a bout of desperate, vigorous thrusting.