Pre-Munar Landing Anonymous - A support group

[Zephram Kerman]

...i\'ve yet to stop my craft from slamming into the moon, i don\'t know when to decelarate. Practice takes a while to set up too, so it\'s a pain.

Purists might object, but if you just want to practice that phase, use F5 to quicksave and F9 to restore.

Some tips for Mun landings:

• start from a low, circular-ish orbit of about 5 km,

• burn retro until your horizontal speed is close to zero as you can get it,

• rotate vertical-ish, deploy landing stuff

• work on stopping horizontal motion while drifting down for a few seconds,

• during descent, keep your vertical speed about 2% of your altitude (ignore two zeros and multiply by 2).

[xclusiv8]

My first successful landing on the mun

And plenty of fuel left. Rocket design is the best so far. Its a little bulky and hard to control in the beginning. But control is not really needed in that stage.

[Sabactus]

My first successful landing on the mun

And plenty of fuel left. Rocket design is the best so far. Its a little bulky and hard to control in the beginning. But control is not really needed in that stage.

Well done. That\'s a sexy rocket.

[xclusiv8]

Thank you

[fremen]

So big rockets ... I use like 3x less mass to do it ... but i must confess i use i think apollo modules ;P bigger fuel tanks i think.

[xclusiv8]

So big rockets ... I use like 3x less mass to do it ... but i must confess i use i think apollo modules ;P bigger fuel tanks i think.

Hehe I know! It took me a couple of attempts to actually get in orbit. With smaller rockets i could do it but i didnt haven enough fuel to get to the moon. So i added a few engines and one think led to another =P And this thing came to be. Im not that good at orbits yet so i need a big fuel buffer when trying to achieve one.

[vexx32]

I managed it for the first time yesterday

Mind you, my rocket was significantly taller than xclusiv8\'s. I\'ll give it another shot so I can get some screenies. One of my lander legs fell of since I landed on a slope :/

[Kreuzung]

I was 200k above Mun today when I had to stop. Tomorrow I\'ll (hopefully not) show you my MechJeb-Assisted fail...

[khyron42]

Congratulations! I\'m glad people are finding designs and methods that work for them.

[Mynorus]

a few bounces off the surface leaving broken landing legs, requiring an abort;

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the act of a person or thing that lands: The pilot brought his plane in for a landing.

LOGIC.

[VincentMcConnell]

I have a near 100% success rate on both landing and return. I recommend modding your .cfg file until you get the hang of it. Also, Tiberion\'s NovaPunch 'MunRocketHeavy' is a great craft with plenty of fuel.

[VincentMcConnell]

Reminds me of the episode 'Spider' from From the Earth to the Moon. The simplest way to the moon, really, is Lunar Orbit Rendezvous. Unless you have a dedicated landing craft (which we can\'t have because there is no docking system yet to join it with it\'s mothercraft), you have to land a huge craft on the moon in order to get back home.

The relevant clip. It\'s a great miniseries if you haven\'t watched it.

I love that part. 'Getting to the moon is easy.' 'Well... Not entirely easy.' 'It\'s relatively easy...' 'What\'s hard, is getting him back!' 'So we started thinking... What can we do now? The moon!'

Their plan turns out to be sending a man to the moon and repeatedly bringing him supply ships until they figure out a way to get him back... hahaha

[Kosmo-not]

Their plan turns out to be sending a man to the moon and repeatedly bringing him supply ships until they figure out a way to get him back... hahaha

I know this has been said so many times already on this forum, but I can\'t help myself:

That\'s Kerbal.

[VincentMcConnell]

I know this has been said so many times already on this forum, but I can\'t help myself:

That\'s Kerbal.

Saying 'That\'s Kerbal' will never be an offense like starting every damned word with a 'k'. You want to see something SUPER Kerbal?

[Johno]

Since I\'m guilty of introducing the term 'Now that\'s Kerbal!' to this forum, I\'ll take the lumps for people not liking it.

[Gojira]

Saying 'That\'s Kerbal' will never be an offense like starting every damned word with a 'k'. You want to see something SUPER Kerbal?

you think that\'s kerbal, try 500g.

[Kreuzung]

I am there ;D

[Sabactus]

you think that\'s kerbal, try 500g.

I dont think I\'ve ever hit that many G\'s and not had the capsule explode when hitting atmo.

[Tomthetechy]

I have the same problem my friend. I get so close but I just disappear into space before I even get caught in mun\'s orbit.

[Sabactus]

If you dont have problems with using mods the Luna rocket from Down Under Aerospace works great for getting to the moon and back.

http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/index.php?topic=3362.0

[Guest GroundHOG-2010]

I have suddenly snapped.

I know there must be more than just me. If it\'s you, then it\'s time you got some support.

I have been playing KSP since version 8.5 - and I have to admit. I\'m yet to land on the Mun and safely return.

No, I know. Shocks you, doesn\'t it?

I\'ve had a few close calls - a lot of sad little craters that will be forever Kerbin; a few bounces off the surface leaving broken landing legs, requiring an abort; several Munar modules running out of fuel whilst still a thousand feet off the surface, requiring an abort; and at least eight command pods left in various locations on the Munar surface when their spacecraft toppled over.

Surely I\'m not the only one!

Say it proud. You\'re not alone. Like me you\'re a Pre-Munar Kerbal!

Well, there goes my title as the longest playing kerbalnaut to never go to the mun. I haven\'t even tryed yet. And I still get yelled at by everyone to do it, but I like flying aircraft and doing Redevous.

[Sabactus]

Sabactus’s Trans lunar injection made easy.

I’m going to take you from ground to lunar orbit.

I’m not stock parts ninja like some people on the forum and I like using some of the packages. A particular favorite is the Down Under Aerospace pack.

Here we have the Luna rocket, a very robust and elegant ship. This baby has taken me to the moon many of times. It’s slightly modified with a MechJeb for when I want precision landings at my moon base.

So let’s get going, you are going to want to thrust vertically for approximately 10 kms then you are going to start VERY slowly angling over east. The 1st stage will get you to about 18–19 kms up just keep turning her.

A few rules of them at about 30 km you’ll wanna be at about 45 degrees and at 60 kms you’ll want to be level.

Once you apogee hits 100 km cut the engine and coast up there and then circularize. At that point you should coast in orbit until you see the moon rising about the horizon. That is you queue to start your injection run.

Thrust along you prograde vector till your apogee is slightly higher than 11,400 kms, the height of the Mun’s orbit.

Then it is a waiting game. If you performed the maneuvers correctly you should be captured by the moons gravity.

[vexx32]

Well, since others are posting their ships, I\'ll post the one I used:

This got me to the Mun, but due to my own problems with efficiency (I\'m not so good with that), I ran out of fuel on the return journey, and was almost stranded in a highly elliptical orbit around Kerbin... I had to use RCS to get back, but I made it!

[Zephram Kerman]

Since I\'m guilty of introducing the term 'Now that\'s Kerbal!' to this forum, I\'ll take the lumps for people not liking it.

No worries. The 'That\'s not Kerbal; that\'s Kerbal' thread is part of what got me hooked on KSP.

[xzbobzx]

For a long time I felt your pain, then one day I landed on the mun, and got back, with 0 fuel left I clipped kerbin\'s atmosphere and I was dragged down.

I just barely did it.