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Unmanned: I've never been to Bop's surface. I may or may not have been to Pol's surface, can't remember. I've been in Pol orbit for sure though. I've been in low orbit of the Sun, but never attempted a landing (didn't seem like a good idea somehow). I've never been to Jool's lower atmosphere (I think; I've definitely been in it's upper atmosphere aerobraking)

Manned: Never been to anything past Duna orbit manned. I have a game where there's a manned mission heading to Dres (BTSM), but 0.24 came out and I started a new game...

Update: I sent a manned mission to Eeloo to make the above a lie :)

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I have made manned return missions to Mun, Minmus, Duna, Ike, Dres and Moho. I have been working on the Jool-5 challenge intermittently, but keep getting distracted by w̶o̶r̶k̶ new KSP updates. Still need to land on Bop and Pol and get back (which I will do when I can be bothered).

I have landed on Gilly and Eve, but I have never returned from either and I have never been to Eeloo. I spent quite a while meticulously designing a rocket to take me to Eeloo and back and then never bothered to launch it.

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I've sent and returned Kerbals to all celestial bodies with a surface to walk on. At least once in every version, since 0.18.2.

All Jool moons in a single trip, Eve sealevel ascents, Moho returns, you name it, been there done that (no mods, no nukes even).

Ohh I remember the wonder, coming up to a new planet or moon for the first time, searching and seeing a little light in the distance growing larger and revealing itself... How I miss that ever since.

Time for some new planets!!

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In my Kerpollo series I made it a point to land on every planet and moon except Jool, Mun and Minmus. The former I consider impossible even though I know people have done it. The latter two I excepted to make the series more difficult and I've been to them before.

About all I haven't done is make it a point to visit every Easter Egg, but I've been to the Kraken, Armstrong Memorial, and a couple arches. Oh, and KSC2 and the desert temple.

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Bodies I haven't sent a Kerbal to yet:

-Moho

-Eve

-Gilly

-Ike

-Dres

-Jool

-Laythe

-Vall

-Tylo

-Bop

-Pol

-Eeloo

Bodies that have yet to recieve both a Kerbal and a Probe:

-Moho

-Gilly

-Dres

-Vall

-Tylo

-Bop

-Pol

-Eeloo

I still have a whole of KSP ahead of me. I really should stop wasting my life and start cracking those dV maps.

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I've been everywhere at least once. Probe landers do not return, manned landers do*.

*In .235 they did, in .24 I leave them there. They have the capability to return, they just never do. When I start going to places I've never returned a Kerbal from before then I'll return them.

Bodies I haven't landed on with a Kerbal yet:

Eve

Tylo

Laythe

Duna

Vall

Bop

Pol

Eve and Tylo I don't know if I could return them. Duna's atmosphere is scary but it should be easy and I'm currently planning a manned mission to it. Laythe should be easy but I'd have to do it differently to how I normally do things. Vall, Bop, and Pol are all easy but I can't be bothered to do them individually so I won't do them until I can make a lander I think could return from Tylo, put that on a ship along with a Laythe-lander and the lander(s) for the other 3, and then land on all of them.

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Vall, Bop, and Pol are all easy but I can't be bothered to do them individually so I won't do them until I can make a lander I think could return from Tylo, put that on a ship along with a Laythe-lander and the lander(s) for the other 3, and then land on all of them.

A tip: Your Tylo lander is likely to be multistaged, but if you design it well the final stage can be reused to land on and return from the other three. Just make sure to do Tylo first.

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I've orbited everything. I don't remember landing on Vall. I've attempted "landing" on Jool. I've crashed into Tylo. Never tried to "land" on Kerbol but I got into a lowish orbit.

(My Kerballed missions haven't gone anywhere except Kerbin and Duna systems. I hate killing or stranding Kerbals...)

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Places I haven't even probed:

Kerbol

Moho (had ships going there a couple of times when new version came out)

Dres

Tylo

Eeloo had a ship going there when a 0.23.5 came out

Places yet to receive flags

Kerbol (impossible)

Jool (impossible)

Tylo

Eve (had a piloted return craft headed there in 0.23.5 but when 0.24.2 came out I dropped that one)

Dres

Eeloo

Moho

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I've never sent anything (manned or unmanned) to the surface of Vall or Tylo, and I've never even been in space near Eeloo.

My next mission will be a manned mission to the surface of Vall though

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I am still considering myself as newby as can be - even though I must have consumed every KSP video of Scott Manley available... Call me KSP nerd... Anyways, so far I have only managed to do some quite extensive visiting to Mun and Minmus and one screaming flyby of Moho, but every other stellar body still awaits my visit, the right transfer windows have not opened yet...

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In the badlands on Kerbin. It seems impossible to land there :confused:

You know when you look west from KSC at "Reentry Mountains" and there's that 1 near the middle that's a tall, needle-like spike? I've never managed to land on its very tip with a wing-borne airplane (as opposed to a VTOL). The sides of that spire of rock are plated with so much aluminum it shines like a beacon, luring more Kerbals to make the attempt :).

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The badlands were the last biome I hit IIRC. They're not the biggest of areas or the most visually obvious, and they're the only non-polar Kerbin biome to not be present on the equator, so you need to launch to a suitable inclination or put a normal component on the deorbit burn.

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Close orbit around the sun is all I lack. I just need to find a way go get enough DeltaV to get that done and back again.

This will sound odd but if you go to Eeloo first it would be cheaper to dive to the sun, than taking and going from Kerbin.

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I've been everywhere at least once. Probe landers do not return, manned landers do*.

*In .235 they did, in .24 I leave them there. They have the capability to return, they just never do. When I start going to places I've never returned a Kerbal from before then I'll return them.

Bodies I haven't landed on with a Kerbal yet:

Eve

Tylo

Laythe

Duna

Vall

Bop

Pol

Eve and Tylo I don't know if I could return them. Duna's atmosphere is scary but it should be easy and I'm currently planning a manned mission to it. Laythe should be easy but I'd have to do it differently to how I normally do things. Vall, Bop, and Pol are all easy but I can't be bothered to do them individually so I won't do them until I can make a lander I think could return from Tylo, put that on a ship along with a Laythe-lander and the lander(s) for the other 3, and then land on all of them.

After sending a manned return mission to Duna, now all that's left are Eve and Jool's moons.

It turns out my fear of Duna was rational. I just barely got back into orbit. That said, I could have designed the lander better to include the return stage then ditch the rest of the lander rather than orbital rendezvousing with the return stage, so Moho (Which took all the fuel in my main lander to land and had too high a surface gravity to get back to orbit with enough fuel to get home, forcing me to make an orbital rendezvous without a completely different design) was technically harder. Duna was still a lot harder than Dres and Eeloo, I was able to land and return from them with no rendezvous and with fuel to spare.

A tip: Your Tylo lander is likely to be multistaged, but if you design it well the final stage can be reused to land on and return from the other three. Just make sure to do Tylo first.

I keep going back and forth between doing that and making the last stage of the Tylo lander really really light. Back in .235, just before .24 came out, I was planning a mission where the lander for the other 3 was the final Tylo stage, but since landing on Tylo with a probe in .24 I've been more inclined to just make the last stage of the Tylo lander really light and use something else for the other 3. Taking enough science equipment to get all the data from a surface takes quite a lot of weight, and if the last stage of the Tylo lander is still carrying them then that's a fundamental limit on how light it can be.

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