Landing on Kerbin without parachutes.

[LadyAthena]

I've had to do landings on Kerbin before without parachutes, but I've never captured them on video before. This time I did. The ship was rather large so it was anything but a gentle landing as well, but he survived! (And not even enough G's to cause death, though injuries would be present).

I'm sorry about the severe darkness, it looked alright when watching it, then when I uploaded it, it got real dark. I kinda like it though personally, adds a nice touch to the video imo. Once I reach the ground it brightens up again.

Note: This wasn't a "Fan Video" or anything, so I posted here. Just wanted to show the event :3.

Edit: Ok guys, I can make a ship that can land on Kerbin without parachutes, it's not hard.... you need to take the video into context though >.<; The point is I didn't mean to have this capable of landing on Kerbin without parachutes, never designed it to be that way, which is apparent because I #1 don't have the right engines on the last 2 sections, and I need to completely dump a full booster section to keep the weight down, AND use my Mun thrusters as additional help, and even then barely able too make it.

Landing on Kerbin if you design it that way is a piece of cake, just have the power to take off from Kerbin and you have the power to land as well. Landing on Kerbin with a ship not designed to land on kerbin without parachutes, and not the right engines, now becomes an accomplishment. Lets keep things in context.

Edited June 30, 2014 by LadyAthena

[Victus]

I've made a Dragon V2 with boosters but I never recorded it unfortunately.

[Whackjob]

Put that down via powered landing. I don't bother with chutes anymore.

[Tortoise]

Just a tip, this is the wrong section and its "Kerbin"!

Nice landing.

[magnemoe]

I say landing on Kerbin is about as hard as landing on Mun or easier, atmosphere slow you down to 100 m/s anyway.

As a bonus the atmosphere also kill all horizontal speed.

its however important to have high TWR and burn late else you will simply waste fuel. yes burning early can be done simply to reduce weight and increase TWR.

Adding parashutes to get your speed down to 10-30 m/s make the landing easier and you don't need twr higher than one.

[LadyAthena]

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

Put that down via powered landing. I don't bother with chutes anymore.

That is a crazy picture...

[Whackjob]

That is a crazy picture...

Oops. Wrong picture. Better one:

[KvickFlygarn87]

It's KerbIn. Yeesh, get it right

[GoSlash27]

In LKO from KSC, SSTO. preparing for reentry.

reentry over KSC.

Final descent, no chutes.

Touchdown.

[LadyAthena]

-snip-

I don't mean this as hostile, or offensive or anything, but I'm sure you meant to do that. I can build a space ship as well and mean to land it on Kerbin. THAT isn't hard, so long as you have enough fuel take off you have enough to land per say. But when you're not meaning too do it at all, and you don't have the right engines, etc. either, then its a pretty cool moment.

[Tw1]

Nice lithobraking with the engines.