Kerbal Space Program

Kerbal Space Program

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How To Mun
By CosmicAggressor
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Introduction
So you have just blown yourself up again and you need help.
Look no further than this required reading guide to MUN.
You are Inadaquite!
As you are just a tiny infant barley capable of reaching orbit you will not attempt docking, randevus, or, additional payload for this guide as it will result in you instantly turning into spagetti and being consumed by the kraken on pasta night.
Construction
Before you can Mun you need a craft that can Mun.

In order to Mun it will need :
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An assent stage/stages with a delta/v of 4,000m/s
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A transfer stage with 1,000m/s delta/v
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Enough lights to blind anyone observing the vessal by means of telescope
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A spectrum laser in the 40 mega wat range to distract the kraken (He loves laser pointers)
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Fleg
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Decent stage with another thousand meters per second delta V (I am adding to the delta v map because you are unlikley to be efficient about this)
PRESS SAVE!
Press save again just in case and you know what just spend a couple minutes spamming that save button in case you crash for some reason.
Done?
Press Save
Landing gear
Save
Spot lights for decent stage
Save
PRESS SAVE!
Ctrl+S
Okay then. You will also need an accent and return stage with 5 or 6 hundred m/s delta v,
A capsule WITH PARACHUTES,
and no small degree of charm.
Press save.
Flying time.
Now that you have built your rocket and turned it 90 degrees to the left in order to be pointing east instead of north you can Launch.
After you have reloaded to vab you should add struts, then you can try again.

You will want to be going straight up to start with then after about 2 klicks you will move east slightly, flip out explode and have to reload because you went to far.

Launch again this time going about 5-10 degrees east straight out of the gate.
This will take you to about 4,000 metres where you will likley be turning off your engine due to your velocity now taking you above 8 killllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll a lot o' mares.

Time warp to about 7 kilometers and do a radial in burn to circularize a little bit.
Time warp again to apoge / appoapsis.
BURN BABY BURN!
Now that you are orbit you are going to turn off your engine.
Any time now.
STOP WASTING FUEL!

Use the manuver planner by clicking on any part of your orbit in the map, then give it prograde until the planned orbit is intersecting with the mun orbital, Finally just drag the node around until you get an encounter with Sun Mun.
Follow your manuver to the letter.
If you fail you will be launched into interstellar space by the dark one.
On aproach
So you have managed not to explode somehow and are now on aproach to the mun in a completley normal orbit that does not look like a chicken.

Good.

Press f5 to quick save because this is where things get fun.
When you reach encounter with the mun slow down.
I said slow down.
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You don't seam to be stopping.

Oh your engine exploded good thing we quick saved press f9 to quick load.

Now when you encounter the mun slow down.
Good.

You will now want to circularize your orbit and select a landing site.
Landing
This is the part that makes most people cringe but it is really very simple.
All the same you should really quick save with f5 before we begin.
Begin a deorbit burn to aim for about 5 degrees behind your intended landing site.

Good

Now time warp
And your dead.
You did not come out of time warp in time and you hit the ground at 99 point some stupid number of nines percent the speed of light.

Reload and do the deorbit step again.

Now that you are on your way time warp but keep it below 3 units.

The game should bring you out of time warp 5 klicks above the surface and just above your intended landing site.

Put every urg of power into deselerating right the hell now.
Once you hit 0 you will start falling again.
Along the way you will want to deselerate 3 or 4 times before you hit the ground.
The hight bar can be changed to above ground rather than above sea level you should do that.
Ok now you are streaking twords the ground at 300 m/s you have also just gone below 200 of the lesser heretical unit so time for the final burn.
Start this burn not by throttling up but by just pressing z.
Don't forget to extend your landing gear your about to need them.
Over time throttle down until you hit 0 throttle 0 speed and 0 altitude at about the same time.
Hurray!
You have finally landed get your kerbals out and plant the fleg you won't need a ladder for the mun but it is recomended.

Now you may want to time warp an entire day/night cycle so the kerbals spend more time on mun than not.

Next leave.
Pack your kerbals back into your crudley improvised rocket and just leave.
GET OUT!
Once you are in orbit you will want to begin your return burn on the leading side of your orbit so that you can get a decent return profile.

Your return to kerbin orbit should be between 4 and 5 kilometers above the surface at perige/periapsis.

Remember that laser?
Now is the time to employ it.
The kraken loves eating returning vessals almost as much as it loves laser pointers.
Point it at the mun.

Finally just stage down to a heat shield and deorbit.
Also drouge shoots are a very good idea here.
Conclusions
You should now be good enough to get to the mun or even minmus, with a little research.
Also I am awsome compared to such a new player but you to may one day be that awsome with as many hours sunk into ksp or possibly ksp2 if that ever happens.

Also jeb is more awsome than anyone except possibly chuck yeager.

Good night.
7 Comments
BigLegoNerd 24 Jun, 2023 @ 9:46pm 
the guide does not have enough saving, add more.
CosmicAggressor  [author] 24 Jun, 2023 @ 8:05pm 
Unacceptable. @bigbean you must begin again at the begining.
Also a heads up for everyone. This series of guides will likley be further expanded in future to include ksp 2.
QUASY 24 Jun, 2023 @ 3:47pm 
i forgot to save
BigLegoNerd 20 Jun, 2023 @ 10:34pm 
instructions unclear:jeb is THE NO.1 BEST
LunaChocken 6 Mar, 2023 @ 6:02am 
rip mares
同性恋者 25 Jan, 2022 @ 8:21am 
69
geektoocool 23 Jan, 2022 @ 1:27pm 
nice