It's better to use a flag, because if you use debris it probably means that something went wrong. Once you find a suitable area, mark it with a flag or other piece of debris. If the area you choose is not flat, your docking ports (used to connect the modules of your base, provided you choose to build a multi stage base) will be stressed when connected, or they won't connect at all. It is imperative that you find an area with few surface features. Land on the Mun again, targeting your first landing site.Then, return to an orbit of 20,000 Meters. Land on the Mun, get out and walk around.Also, it is wise to design your vehicle with extra fuel in the event of an emergency, such as the one that occurred during Apollo 13.īefore attempting to build a Munar base, you'll need to reach Mün with more than enough fuel to correct your orbit, land, and return Kerbin so you can carry crews. Your vehicle can be manned or unmanned, but you'll want a vehicle that can ferry Kerbonauts to and from the surface. To the right is a vehicle that can reach the Mün with ease and return carrying a heavy payload. Have a vehicle capable of carrying large payloads to AT LEAST Kerbin orbit.Have landed on the Mün at least once (the more you have landed, the easier it will be for you).Do the same in the periapsis.A large vehicle capable of easily landing on the Mün.īefore you build a munar base, you will need to have completed the following: Warp to the apoapsis, burn retrograde until your periapsis is under 50 km. We want a 50 km orbit, so you need to correct your orbit. Warp to the periapsis and burn retrograde until you get a stable orbit. After, check the Map if you're going to encounter the Mun. Timewarp to your maneuver and burn WHEN the time left to burn is equal to the burn time.

Then, prograde again until your apoapsis make an encounter with the munar gravitational influence (Mun encounter: T-00:00:00).

When your ship is on a stable orbit, open the Map and create a maneuver, prograde the maneuver and see if the apoapsis is about 45 degrees from the Mun. Launch your rocket into an equatorial orbit. IMPORTANT! Need a TR-XL Stack Separator for separate the decoupler off the module, otherwise, the docking port will be locked. Need aIt need a docking port and RCS equipment. Third Stage- Landing Module: It will take some Kernels (probably 2 of 3) to go to the munar surface. It needs to have a docking port and RCS equipment. Third Stage- Command Module: It will carry your crew back to Kerbin and it has a heat shield. It is highly recommended put a high thrust engine and a few fuel tanks because you will just use a few of them. Second Stage: Complete the orbit, make the transmunar injection and adjust the munar orbit. It needs to have a high thrust engine to carry all the weight off the atmosphere and have stability. In my opinion, this is the hardest thing to deal with on the rocket. There's the stage distribution:įirst Stage: To lift off. You probably will have a very heavy rocket.

In order to land on the Mun, you need first build your rocket. When the Landing Module finished all your tasks, it lofts back to orbit and after it docks with the Command module. While the Landing Module was on the surface, the Command module was orbiting it. The stage had two ships, the command module and the landing module. The Apollo method was used from Apollo 11 until the end of the program. Requires: How to orbit Kerbin, how to encounter celestial bodies, how to land in other bodies, how to rendezvous and dock, at least 200,000,000 funds in career mode and an advanced tech tree. Difficult: Medium (if you know orbit mechanics)

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