Mun Landings

[micha]

Fairly new player here, and so far only had a single Kerbal on the Mun (and he had to be rescued due to insufficient fuel). I was more impressed that I managed to get my rescue lander within 2km of the original touchdown! Currently sending automated probe droids out; 3 on the Mun and 2 on Minmus so far. Meanwhile my kerballed space program is stuck in LKO where I just successfully practised a rendezvous and docking manoeuvre.

[tutrakan4e]

My first successufl Mun landing was my first successful docking too!

[KingPhantom]

i can do it in my sleep too. i saw videos from guys doing a landing without nodes. it was inpossible for me. but now i do it the same way wait for the mun on the horizon and fire!

[Frank_G]

In january i felt lucky, getting a rocket into orbit. Now kerbaled mun landings are just everydays practice. No nodes or else needed.

[Alshain]

I got all the way to 1000km off the dark side of the mun and realized I forgot to put lights on my lander, still set her down on a hill at a 45 degree incline. That was my 3rd mun landing. I was rather proud of myself at the time.

[-RanZ-]

I can go anywhere and return!

[Frank_G]

I got all the way to 1000km off the dark side of the mun and realized I forgot to put lights on my lander, still set her down on a hill at a 45 degree incline. That was my 3rd mun landing. I was rather proud of myself at the time.

You have radar altitude inside the pit, allowing you a landing by instruments... Works well unless you lande on a slope or hit a crater rim during horizontal deceleration

[Alshain]

You have radar altitude inside the pit, allowing you a landing by instruments... Works well unless you lande on a slope or hit a crater rim during horizontal deceleration

Well in full disclosure I was using KER.

[Oafman]

Got Kerbals back from the Mun before I even knew there was a game forum.

Surely standard order of play is sub-orbital flight, orbit, Mun?

[Wallygator]

Made it there and back. But the mun was my first powered landing. Much adrenalin at that first event. Now, I find mun landings to be fun and relaxing in a strange way. I keep trying to perfect my apollo style constructions and mission profiles when time permits.

Edited July 3, 2014 by Wallygator
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[QuesoExplosivo]

I can go anywhere and return!

Even 10 meters above the "surface" of Jool?

[weezl]

My guess is more than half the forum users make it to Mun and Minmus. However, Duna and beyond you will likely see a large drop-off.

Agreed.

I've researched all biomes on both Mun and Minmus.. and actually landed and taken off from Duna.. The rest of the planets *not yet*.. I'm still only 5 weeks into this game.. and life decided to intervene this week.. so my rate of doing things has slowed a bit.. I'm also somewhat expecting that a new update will happen soon.. and when it does I'll just restart my career and all do all the activities required by the new missioning system.

[weezl]

Got Kerbals back from the Mun before I even knew there was a game forum.

Surely standard order of play is sub-orbital flight, orbit, Mun?

Almost for me.. my order is: sub-orbital, orbit, rendezvous, docking, Minmus, Mun. Minmus is easier to learn landing on because the gravity is lower (and therefore more forgiving of the inevitable mistakes you must make on your first few landings.).

[SargeRho]

The Mun has in fact become boring. Eve is where all the fun is now.

[tutrakan4e]

Even 10 meters above the "surface" of Jool?

Easier than a Mun landing.

Timewarp through it.

[magnemoe]

Even 10 meters above the "surface" of Jool?

Been there, even below multiple times.

This is last time, yes you need an insane rocket, main problem is engine overheating making it hard to do without mechjeb engine temperature control.

You will need so many engines you cant see all on staging.

[Kerba Fett]

You could try using two pits, see if you can put one sample in one and a second from the same biome in a second.

I'm going to try this and report back here.

You need to make sure you return your samples to the surface in 2 separate trips.

When you land a ship the game will look at all the science points on board and discard duplicates even if they're in different pods.

I keep samples in a mobile lab and in the pod. By taking a lab to the surface I can get the best value for transmitting and clean the experiment bays.

[Rus-Evo]

The Mun is where I do mission testing. For example the equipment I sent to descend the Mohole.

[magnemoe]

The Mun is where I do mission testing. For example the equipment I sent to descend the Mohole.

Yes its an nice place to test out landers and rovers,

Minmus is more for industrial use.

[NecroBones]

Landing on the Mun is really interesting in that:

1. It's hard, and exciting, the first time you do it.

2. Later in the game, it's one of the easiest things you can do.

One day, just because I was bored, I slapped together a couple of landers that were unlike my previous ones, and landed them on the Mun to take some group shots of my Kerbals. No other reason. Just go there, and land two of them near each other, because it was something easy and I was bored. lol

Whereas the first time I went there, it was hugely exciting. And then it was where I got most of my science tree unlocked, with mission after mission, not unlike the Apollo program.

[I_Killed_Jeb]

I wonder how many have gone Apollo style. That was the first thing I started trying to do as soon as I had done a couple successful direct ascents. Took me many attempts and redesigns back then, but that's how I ended up learning about rendezvousing and docking. For the record, my first successful Apollo style mission was also my first Minmus landing.

Apollo style was the only way I did mun landings and return until probably ~200 hours in. For me it's just more fun that way and it didn't even occur to me to make direct ascent vehicles until much later

[yeags86]

I've landed on the Mum before...barely. Made it home once. Today I made my first legitimate, well planned landing and return.

On the pad

TLI (or TMI?)

Insertion to LMO

Landed!

"I made it!"

Burning home

Splashdown!

May not seem like much, but I'm happy with it!

[magnemoe]

As you should be, has you landed on Minmus?

A bit harder to get to but far easier to land on.

Do you use a plane ipt or is it from a mod?

[Ruthgar]

Currently on my 4th variation of Mun/Minimus landers. Current setup can go hit 4-6 biomes on Minimus, get 1 sometimes 2 biomes on the Mun on the way back, then have just enough fuel left over to drop down to kerbin. Keep forgeting to put lights on it though, makes some interesting landings on the mun, takeoffs even more so. Picture on the launchpad is the explorer mark 1, retired after one flight due to strut issues (missing) between the asparagus core and the transfer stage. Mark 2 has boosters and the missing struts added.

Have fun all

Dark Force Engineering - Launching Kerbanauts into space since early 2014

Engineer to Mission Control - You know, maybe we should think about getting them down out of space at some point

​Mission Control to Engineers - Why, they seem happy up there?

[GalaxiesFinestToday]

Oh, a time or two.

http://i.imgur.com/YAMmQLD.png

What mod are you using in this picture? The lander looks beautiful.