God loves fools and Kerbonauts

[RocketBlam]

Just finished my first manned mission to Duna in .25.

Everything went fine. I gave myself plenty of fuel in the transfer stage, got to Duna and even got some science from around Ike on the way. Landed on Duna, took off, re-docked with the transfer stage, got back to Kerbin... everything was fine.

So I'm coming in to land back on Kerbin. The transfer stage has a lot of fuel left, but I eject it because I don't need it. I've got some fuel in my lander, and of course the chutes will take care of most of it.

So here I am in the terminal phase. Nothing left to do but deploy the chutes. No problem. I glance at the chute icons as I hit Space to stage. Hmm, that's weird. They're red. Red... red... what does that mean? Oh, that means they've.... already been deployed.

What? I didn't deploy them, except... back on Duna.

I forgot to repack my chutes after I left Duna.

I am now about 7,000 meters above Kerbin's hard surface with no chutes.

The first thing to do of course is panic. I'm playing career mode on Hard... there is no revert, no quicksave... the only thing I can do is land under power and hope I don't screw it up. Thankfully I had transferred some fuel out of the transfer stage into the lander... I always like to have a little extra, mostly for braking, but some just in case. This is the "just in case".

I wobbled a lot, but some how, miraculously, stuck the landing under power with no chutes, and didn't even break a landing gear.

Hard mode is fun... it's scary situations like this that make it great. Whatever God rules over Kerbin, he was watching out for me.

[Sirrobert]

The Kraken is Kerbin's god. He likes to play with people like that

[Teoman2]

That was, well, i wont tell MY kerbals about you otherwise they might want you as leader... (Lots of unexpected Mun Explosions)

[Shisouka]

[Frank_G]

Congratulations! Nerves of steel stand nothing against explosions, but they can help preventing them.