Just a little pit stop

[Rascal Nag]

Rules: Only stock parts. That should be all.

Build a spacecraft that can land on the Mun, then from there pick up and leave the Kerbol system. I think that this should be an adequately challenging task for any builder.

And if you say it\'s impossible, then that means you just didn\'t make enough blood sacrifices for the rocket God aren\'t trying hard enough. In all seriousness, it is going to be extremely tough though. But we\'ve done tough things before.

I\'ll start trying this now.

Edit: Just ran my first try. Here\'s the decoupler getting stuck in orbit, as I\'m going off to the Mun (the engines exploded when they ran out of fuel for some reason)

And the landing (What a nice background!):

Munar takeoff (Dropped unecessary engines):

After one burn at munar apoapsis and later, after kerbin escape, kerbol periapsis, here is the apoapsis:

Mind you, this apoapsis was achieved by only a little over 1 tank of fuel on the Munar surface. If I could build a rocket that gives me maybe two tanks to work with, or maybe even just 1 and a half to 3 quarters, I\'d be golden.

edit: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

So ridiculously close...

[witeken]

Jeb don\'t like pit stops

Kerbin orbit:

TMI:

Landing:

Landing with view on earth:

Jetpack falls of the ship:

Result:

Why are my pictures so small :S? If you want to see a bigger version, click on it.

[Splendid]

It\'s not earth, It\'s kerbin.

[TheUnlogicalOne]

I\'ll bite.

This rocket was designed to see how much I could land on the Mun using only stock parts. I ended up being able to land a rocket with 12-14 tanks on the Mun, probably enough to reach escape velocity!

Here was my attempt: http://imgur.com/a/GMsoz

It went (mostly) well, I reached a final escape velocity of 16.3 km/s. The one hicup was my choice of landing location on the Mun. Apparently a large mountain range is not an ideal landing spot. I did a quick touch and go landing (breaking off a \'landing leg\' in the process)

but the ship IS capable of touching down as seen here:

I\'m sure I could have flown it more efficiently but I figured I had more than enough fuel to just point it in one direction and floor the throttle for most of it.

[Rascal Nag]

I\'ll bite.

This rocket was designed to see how much I could land on the Mun using only stock parts. I ended up being able to land a rocket with 12-14 tanks on the Mun, probably enough to reach escape velocity!

Here was my attempt: http://imgur.com/a/GMsoz

It went (mostly) well, I reached a final escape velocity of 16.3 km/s. The one hicup was my choice of landing location on the Mun. Apparently a large mountain range is not an ideal landing spot. I did a quick touch and go landing (breaking off a \'landing leg\' in the process)

but the ship IS capable of touching down as seen here:

I\'m sure I could have flown it more efficiently but I figured I had more than enough fuel to just point it in one direction and floor the throttle for most of it.

Impressive. I gave up after my best run was thwarted by the decoupler glitching and blowing up on me...

[l00]

Hi Everyone!

I am pleased to tell You that Bill, Jeb and Bob are now happily heading towards deep space with some munar samples on board...

Hardest part for me in this challenge was fighting the Space Kraken!

Bloody thing damaged the ship too.

I don\'t think a yt video is warranted for this flight, so here is the story in pictures:

On landing pad

Main stage separation

Trans-Munar burn

Jeb messed with the design of detaching spent LFTs here

Ejecting AUX engines

Landed on the Mun.

Ascending...

Escape from munar gravity

Planetary escape

Solar orbit

Bloody Space Kraken...

Spinning seems to help...

The Kraken strikes! Fuel consumption should be equal... 2 fuel lines must have been damaged...

Out of fuel... What acceleration? Space Kraken has the FORCE!

Fuel system should look like this on all sides...

...but the fuel lines here are just gone...

After separation, timewarp is possible. The rest of the ship is ripped apart by the dam Kraken...

At Solar PE

End results

I was left with two almost-full tanks and no way to use them...

So, i think this challenge should now be about how fast you are at PE in solar escape to keep things interesting

In this flight: 14259.6 m/s

Well, i will retry sometime to reach a better speed...

Anyway, thanks for whatching (or viewing, or whatever )

Cheers!

[Red Iron Crown]

Nicely done!