Mun how I loathe you sometimes.

[EdFred]

It's time to colonize Minmus. So I get my modules ready for departure. I've done the trip to Minmus a bunch of times manually, so I just fire of MechJeb, launch to plane/redezvous, and alt+tab to answer some email. I come back to KSP and my module is out of Kerbin's SOI, and I need 8000dV to get to Minmus. WTH?!?!?

Revert to Launch.

Manually create the node.

Oh.

Whoever said the Mun isn't large enough to provide decent gravity assists, whatever. I got a huge, unwanted assist.

[NASAFanboy]

The Mun is the bane of my Minimus Exploration Office.

[ArcFurnace]

The Mun isn't large enough that deliberately going for a gravity assist is worth the fuel. Accidental gravity assists, now, those it's quite good at.

Seriously, I'm trying to drop back into Kerbin's atmosphere, stop getting in the way.

[Red Iron Crown]

I've been going to Duna a bit lately, Ike does the same thing. "Oh, you've got your aerobraking all set up? Let me just fix that for you."

[EdFred]

I have used Ike to my advantage though. I prefer equatorial orbits for various reasons, but I was coming in at an inclination of above 45, and of course the burn needed to fix that can get pricey. But, there was Ike in my way, or was it? Burned slightly and let Ike throw me into a equatorial orbit around Duna for less than what it would have cost me at Duna. This was before I had really figured out Radial/Normal and how to use it to my advantage.