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Apologies if this is banal; I never really considered challenges until I became utterly bored with moon landings.

The challenge is:

Land on the moon.

Deploy an 'experiment package.' (just drop something)

Launch and orbit the moon (at least) once.

Land back at the same spot to retrieve the experiment.

Return to home.

[my progress thus far: post-deployment orbit completed, currently on a return path to the area, at 80km 100m/s]

Update:

Somehow, during the journey, I lost connection to 5 RCS tanks. (they\'re tucked inside a hollow decoupler and only attached via a fuel line - which I assume broke?)

Currently at 5km with a stable descent rate, unable to locate the drop zone.

Not looking good.

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Just an FYI: objects on Kerbin disappear when you leave a 5km radius from them. I\'m not sure about the mun, since it has no atmosphere.

Before you get too caught up in attempting an rendezvous, someone might want to check if objects left on the moon stay there when you leave the area.

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Just an FYI: objects on Kerbin disappear when you leave a 5km radius from them. I\'m not sure about the mun, since it has no atmosphere.

Before you get too caught up in attempting an rendezvous, someone might want to check if objects left on the moon stay there when you leave the area.

It\'s a very common misconception that because objects on the surface go away at this distance, things in orbit do too. But this is not the case.

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Bit more complex than I thought.

I dropped a set of flares on the munar surface, and rose. It appears that either when rising past 5km, or possibly when returning back to 5km, the mun base randomly explodes. I think it has something to do with the conversion to being on rails. Using timeskip seems to make it worse, but I did actually see a perfectly well-landed base randomly explode without any time dilation.

Odd.

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