I just returned from a 3-month KSP hiatus, and faced against a pinch obstacle

[Commissioner Tadpole]

As some of you probably know, I suffered of a KSP-shortage for three months. However, I was bought in back to the game by watching hilarious KSP videos(Danny's ARM video is one of them, obviously). So, I decided to start my save in a 'historical space advancement' storyline.

I began roleplaying that my Space Program took place in the second most powerful country in Kerbin, the Kerbin Federation of Southern States. Yes, that page was made by me. As you can see there, their enemy is the People's United Empire of Pandora, located on the extremely large continent.

I started with a simple probe parodying the Sputnik, the Stayputnik(wow, much originality, such good name). The ship consisted of a lifter and a small stage for interplanetary burns - fit with a probe core used to take the stage back to Kerbin - which hauled the Stayputnik probe, consisting of nothing more than the probe core, a small battery, two solar panels and a small antenna. It'd be on Synchronous Orbit.

The probe was set into orbit with no major problems(other than the help of HyperEdit to actually place it in front of Concetia). The main difficulty was landing the thing. I forgot to slap some parachutes in the lifter, and I missed the ocean entirely, so I had to land it softly or else a war would start. Not to mention I was landing in the Empire of Pandora's territory, to make matters worse.

Fortunately for me, I managed to safely land the mid-stage with no major casualties - in fact, it was very sharp, as I landed with only 1.36 Liquid Fuel left! Touchdown was at 9.8m/s with no landing legs, so I had to rely on the engine - and the SAS to keep it upright.

Hopefully the Empire won't mind me having to use their territory as a landing site...

[Commander Zoom]

Of course not! And they will be glad to return your vehicle... in several dozen bags, once they finish disassembling and examining it down to the bolts.